But it always ends like this:
What was Nancy doing so far away from home???
Maybe not. But all moonbats are rabid.
Glad the bat my cat brought in the house was dead. I have had to shoo out plenty of live birds the little critter has brought in, but a live bat would have given major heebie jeebies. I think I would have needed help from Jim Beam.
There is nothing uglier, or more ferocious looking than a bat.
Rabies is common in the bat population. One summer about 15 years ago I was working in my garage at night while wearing shorts. The garage door was open and at one point I looked down and saw what appeared to be a leaf clinging to my bare leg. When I brushed it off it fell to the floor and started flopping around. I collected it in a bag and the county came to pick it up the next day. They called a day later and said the bat died of rabies and to go get the shots. Three shots in the arm over a three month period, with no side effects. Much better than the alternative.
But it always ends like this:
“No point in mentioning those bats, I thought, the poor b****** will see them soon enough.”
And the bat/rabies hysteria continue.
In the last 60+ years since records on this were started......
PUBLISHED STATISTICS THROUGH MARCH 2008:
• 53 cases confirmed as a result of bat rabies.
• 51 deaths* confirmed as a result of bat rabies in the past 56 years (since 1951). An average of less than one death per year.
*Of the 51 confirmed deaths, 4 contracted rabies through organ transplants.
Knowing the habits of bats and how they act in the wild is of importance. If one is out in the middle of the bright sunny day...maybe something is wrong with it. If is flopping around like its dying, maybe it is. It has sharp teeth. Dont let it bite you.
There is no more risk of a bat having rabies than many other warm blooded animals in the wild that has not had a rabies vaccination.
Raccoon and skunks are over twice as likely to have rabies as bats, but they sure are a lot cuter than than those ugly bats.
Give me a break.