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The rant thread...

Discussion in 'The Water Cooler' started by buckeye, Feb 3, 2013.

  1. LittleChief

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    I have to find a way to get rid of a bat infestation in the wall of my house.

    For the first year we thought it was mice we were hearing in the wall.

    Lately it sounds like the little bastages are having a frat party in the bathroom wall.

    I’m not sure how to get rid of them but I know I have to wait a month or two until the juveniles are all old enough to fly. They’re federally protected, which wouldn’t really stop me since they’re in my house, but my wife knows about them and she loves the little demons.
     
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    Remind her that rabies kills and rabie shots are nasty. We had a nieghbor at our old house in town. Bat chewed through wall and bit them in their sleep. THEY had zero idea!!!!! What woke them was it flying around in their closed door bedroom. They killed it and imediately called the health department. YES SIR, IT HAD RABIES. The wife had a VERY bad reaction to the rabies shot landing her in the hospital for over a week.
     
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    We’re going to be getting rid of them soon. I know they carry rabies and other dangerous bacteria/whatever, but they are very good to have around and I’d prefer not to kill them, especially inside the house. I don’t want to smell decaying bats in the house.

    I’ve been doing homework on exclusion methods and devices. I’ve even considered building bat-boxes for them to move into once we evict them.

    They do feast on tons of undesired insects.
     
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    Was my thought. And they don’t particularly like light…so some siding or soffit removal or supplemental lighting may dis-incent them from the siding…
     
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