I looked out my window and saw what looked to be a piece of plastic falling out of a tree, onto the ground. Then it started crawling. When I saw it was a bat, I called the wildlife people and they caught it in a net. Poor guy looked beat up, and was very dehydrated. The wildlife people gave electrolytes and took it away for further treatment and rehabilitation.
Here are some more pics.
I have 2 more pics but Lemmy isn’t letting me upload them. I’ll try to upload them in a reply.
Sky dog
Thank you for the rescue!
It was such a strange rescue. I’ve rescued lots of wildlife, but never bats. We always get told bats are full of diseases and not to touch them, so I had no idea what to do. So I had to call the rescuers. The bat seemed very angry with the rescuers, who were kind and gentle and giving much needed electrolytes. But it kept staring at me like it was in love with me. After telling the rescuers how I sit outside at night sometimes and see the eerie twinkle of bat’s eyes staring at me. The rescuers figured the bats must’ve been keeping a file on me. So when this one needed help, it knew to come to me. Maybe it doesn’t sound like much to other people, but it really changed my life. That bat and I helped each other.
You and the bat are neighbors :)
Bats are common carriers of rabies. If it was me, I would go get rabies shots just in case.
Yes! Thanks to your post, I found a bat community!
Thank you so much for helping an animal in need! Poor guy was lucky you saw him. Amazing pics!
This one’s my fav! Thanks for helping out an animal.
