Bats in the Belfry

QueenofAnything · February 2011

On Sunday night, I was awoken at 1AM by chittering and scampering in the attic directly above our bedroom. For the next half an hour, I attempted to ignore it and go back to sleep. At 1:30, I ended up grabbing my pillow and going to sleep in the twin bed in the spare room. About an hour later, I wake up to H standing over me asking if he could join me or if he had to sleep on the couch because the chipmunks were keeping him up, too. You see, we had a chipmunk problem earlier in the year and we thought they'd somehow come back.

So H and I shared the twin bed in the spare room. We spent all day yesterday discussing traps and re-doing the soffits and fascia in order to make sure there were no holes. We bought traps after work and went home to work on our problem.

Now, the attic over our bedroom is not easily accessible from the attic over the rest of our house. There's a 2' x 1' area that you need to crawl through. Thanks to my "child bearing hips", I could not fit through, so H went on alone, the traps in tow.

H is scaling the beams and I'm peering through the hole telling him where he should put the traps, when we hear a strange noise, followed by chittering. We both pause and listen. Definitely not chipmunk noise. Some of the insulation near H starts moving. Slowly, he peels away some of the insulation and what does he find?

A bat!

So that is the story of how I got a bat for Valentine's Day. H released it into the wildlife preserve about 15-20 min away from our place. There are still more bats in the attic making noises. We're going to have to call an exterminator and after last night, H is not sharing the twin bed with me anymore. My neck and hips freaking hurt.

shauni27 · February 2011

omg this literally makes me want to vomit. i have such a fear of bats! we used to get them in our house all the time, and one landed IN OUR BED ON GERRENS SHOULDER. i almost died. get them taken care of, there are a high number of bats with rabies and other diseases!

stephaniem1977 · February 2011

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

QueenofAnything · February 2011

shauni27:
omg this literally makes me want to vomit. i have such a fear of bats! we used to get them in our house all the time, and one landed IN OUR BED ON GERRENS SHOULDER. i almost died. get them taken care of, there are a high number of bats with rabies and other diseases!

Holy crap. That would have freaked the sh!t out of me and I'm not afraid of bats. H is kind of an idiot because he didn't know about the bats/rabies association. Luckily, he was wearing my thick leather gloves that I used to use for steel inspection so it couldn't have bitten him anyway.

diablesse · February 2011

I think bats are adorable, but I don't like touching them. We used to have a few that lived in my house growing up. The ceilings in my bedroom were 20ft high with rafters. There wasn't much you could do about it. Every so often they would come down to say hello.

I'm glad your hubby took him to a wildlife refuge. A lot of people would have just killed it

moleson99 · February 2011

I agree with Shauni! They freak me out!

Good luck!!!

debdebdol · February 2011

Ewww...I don't like bats either.

DatsyuksMommy · February 2011

I don't know how to spell the terrified sound I would make if I ever found a bat. My grandma went on some adventure in a cave one time, and a bat landed in her hair. I shudder every time I think about it.

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