Jamie goes outside on a leash every day, and always seems to manage to get into fights with neighborhood cats, or to catch rodents, so he's vaccinated against rabies. Anyway - he kept waking me up this morning, and I finally gave in around 6:15, went downstairs and fed him, and crawled back into bed. He then decided to wake up my husband, who found that Jamie had apparently caught and injured a bat, which had escaped and crawled behind our vacuum cleaner, which is in the corner of the living room, behind a door. This is the second time he's managed to catch a bat, either inside, or on the balcony. Screens aren't usual here, but our downstairs windows are secured with cat net, and were closed last night. We have French doors upstairs (open last night), which open onto balconies, also secured with cat net. The back balcony is secured with a 7-ft. net, but there's some open space at the top, where a bat could presumably get through. My husband thinks the bat, which he put back outside, after applying some Betadine, could conceivably have gotten through the cat net, because it was so small. I'm still b****ing at R. for picking up the bat without gloves.
Has anybody had similar experiences? Maybe with moles in the cellar walls, or mice getting into the house? Do you have your pets inoculated against rabies for that reason?
Has anybody had similar experiences? Maybe with moles in the cellar walls, or mice getting into the house? Do you have your pets inoculated against rabies for that reason?