So I woke up after falling asleep on the couch (too hot upstairs!) to hear my cats yowling. I look up, and see a flitting object moving around my ceiling.
At which point I turn into a three year old, start screaming, and run into the other room, and cower for a few minutes.
I would have been content to stay behind doors, and figure it out in the morning - but my cats are out there, and they've managed to catch and kill a bat before when I was sleeping in my room (wonderful thing to wake up to....)
Long story short, I managed to catch it, and get it outside. And now I'm jumping around on 'bat in house' websites, who say that if a bat is in the room with a sleeping adult, you should assume that the adult has been bitten and seek rabies treatment.
Is this paranoid? most of my body was covered, I have no wounds, I woke up because I had to pee, not because I felt something bite me (and of course, when I captured the bat/released it outside, I didn't come into contact with it).
So should I follow the advise of the website and go get treatment for rabies, or is that over the top? (I've checked all my cats, too, just in case, and none of them appear to have any wounds).
...and I've gotta figure out how I'm going to go back to sleep. mgh.
At which point I turn into a three year old, start screaming, and run into the other room, and cower for a few minutes.
I would have been content to stay behind doors, and figure it out in the morning - but my cats are out there, and they've managed to catch and kill a bat before when I was sleeping in my room (wonderful thing to wake up to....)
Long story short, I managed to catch it, and get it outside. And now I'm jumping around on 'bat in house' websites, who say that if a bat is in the room with a sleeping adult, you should assume that the adult has been bitten and seek rabies treatment.
Is this paranoid? most of my body was covered, I have no wounds, I woke up because I had to pee, not because I felt something bite me (and of course, when I captured the bat/released it outside, I didn't come into contact with it).
So should I follow the advise of the website and go get treatment for rabies, or is that over the top? (I've checked all my cats, too, just in case, and none of them appear to have any wounds).
...and I've gotta figure out how I'm going to go back to sleep. mgh.