[NicknamedBob]

"Eeeew! I don’t like bats!"

Don't let the kids see that picture on your monitor. They'll want to add to your menagery.

Bats don't make good pets, but they are good company. If your boys build some bat-houses, the bats will repay their kindness by being flying bug-zappers.

One note of caution: When the bats consume the insects, they tend to leave insect wrappers casually discarded. Put the bat residences in an area where that won't be a problem.

[rottndog]

I would do that, as long as the bats eat the mosquitoes.

[Tax-chick]

The Cub Scouts have built bat houses, and we put them up in the our subdivision’s woods, along with the bird houses that other Scouts have built :-).

[Monkey Face]

...They'll want to add to your menagery....

Etymology
French ménagerie, derived from ménager to keep house, ménage household. Housekeeping used to include taking care of domestic animals.

Noun
menagerie

A collection of live wild animals on exhibition; the enclosure where they are kept
1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart Earth Abides
In Sacramento a crazed woman opened the cages of a circus managerie for fear the animals might starve to death, and had been mauled by a lioness.

A diverse or miscellaneous group
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