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RE: Orphaned bats!! - 11/18/2011 5:38:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		Bats are awesome :) I love the first day of summer back home when the lightning bugs come out and bats are whizzing around trying to catch them :)

Anyway, going to share this with my bat rehabber friend. :)

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RE: Orphaned bats!! - 11/18/2011 5:38:53 PM   
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RE: Orphaned bats!! - 11/18/2011 7:16:46 PM   
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Last spring I was cleaning stalls at night, and a bat flew in the barn.  I started screaming like a little girl, and waving the pitch fork around, until I ran out of the barn.  So, I guess I am afraid of bats.  I wouldn't dare watch the video.




I was walking through MacArthur park many years ago at night and saw some bats. But that has been the only time.

Was there a cake left out in the rain there?

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RE: Orphaned bats!! - 11/18/2011 7:17:17 PM   
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wasnt that just the CUTEST!!?? and the one near the end that YAWNED!!!

Ok, that was cute!!!

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RE: Orphaned bats!! - 11/19/2011 5:07:00 AM   
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Last spring I was cleaning stalls at night, and a bat flew in the barn.  I started screaming like a little girl, and waving the pitch fork around, until I ran out of the barn.  So, I guess I am afraid of bats.  I wouldn't dare watch the video.




I was walking through MacArthur park many years ago at night and saw some bats. But that has been the only time.

Was there a cake left out in the rain there?


No that was the day before.

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RE: Orphaned bats!! - 11/26/2011 4:44:58 PM   
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Status: offline 		I am incredibly, undeniably, and utterly TERRIFIED of bats

... in any size, shape or form.
... in a barn, house, attic, basement, park, or belfry.
... alive, eating, drinking, procreating, sleeping, or deceased.
... at any time of day or night, any day of the week, month, or year.
... hanging, flying, sitting, crouching, playing dead, or leaning.
... alone, with a friend, with their homies, or with their families.
... on my right, my left, below me or above me.

Anymore questions? <LMAO>




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RE: Orphaned bats!! - 11/26/2011 5:51:40 PM   
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They look like adorable little puppies!

I found it interesting that the parents died after coming into contact with "deadly ticks".  I hate ticks way more than I do bats.  So, I hope the rescue attempt is extremely successful. 



Yea, there is something not "cute" about a bat when it is screeching and circling your head! Especially, if like me, you have long hair (to my butt) that is coarse and wavy and you grew up hearing how they would try to "nest" in your head!

Ticks?! I know "arachnophobia" is a fear of spiders, what is it for fear of bugs in general? I have been known to get a neighbor child to kill some of the more frightening ones.


It's Entomophobia (also known as insectophobia) .

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RE: Orphaned bats!! - 11/26/2011 5:53:50 PM   
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I know, the bat was only looking for bugs.  Good on him.  However, my sub conscious was convinced he wanted to get tangled up in my hair.  I found I wasn't so afraid once I put a hat on.

The video refers to the baby bats as flying foxes.  I think of them more as flying rats.



Flying rats is what New Yorkers always called pigeons, as they are not in short supply in the city.

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RE: Orphaned bats!! - 11/26/2011 6:04:38 PM   
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I know, the bat was only looking for bugs.  Good on him.  However, my sub conscious was convinced he wanted to get tangled up in my hair.  I found I wasn't so afraid once I put a hat on.



Is that some myth parents told their children when they were little in our generation or what?


Yes, I remember always having to wear a kerchief at night when there were bats around.  Of course they told me the bats preferred blonde hair (you can guess my hair color).

Now I love to watch them swooping over the rooftops at dusk, and appreciate their contribution to mosquito control.

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RE: Orphaned bats!! - 11/26/2011 6:30:46 PM   
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I am incredibly, undeniably, and utterly TERRIFIED of bats

... in any size, shape or form.
... in a barn, house, attic, basement, park, or belfry.
... alive, eating, drinking, procreating, sleeping, or deceased.
... at any time of day or night, any day of the week, month, or year.
... hanging, flying, sitting, crouching, playing dead, or leaning.
... alone, with a friend, with their homies, or with their families.
... on my right, my left, below me or above me.

Anymore questions? <LMAO>

Just one....

Do you like Green eggs and ham?






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RE: Orphaned bats!! - 11/26/2011 6:32:57 PM   
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It's Entomophobia (also known as insectophobia) .


Thanks Dusky.

I've gotten much better over the years. Flying insects still send me into a panic and cave crickets (AKA camel crickets). Those things are horrible. They look like spiders, but a couple legs short. Blind, but jump right at you. ICK!

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RE: Orphaned bats!! - 11/26/2011 7:29:03 PM   
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It's Entomophobia (also known as insectophobia) .


Thanks Dusky.

I've gotten much better over the years. Flying insects still send me into a panic and cave crickets (AKA camel crickets). Those things are horrible. They look like spiders, but a couple legs short. Blind, but jump right at you. ICK!


You know darlin', phobias run deep, and are not always of rational origin, so do not feel bad about it. I wish I could comfort you by saying I feel for you, but in truth cannot. I came in this time around with a deep appreciation, respect, understanding, and affinity for all kinds creatures, domestic, farm and wild, from bats to snakes to praying manti to opossums and much more, have made friends of them all, and have handled many. Regardless of whether I have been bit, attacked, kicked, scratched, stomped, etc. (and I have), I never learned to react to them with fear. I understand their defense mechanisms, and can truly say, I alway understood it was I, who was responsible for any incident in which any of those things happened to me. If I do not speak or understand the other creatures languages, cues and reactions well enough, and continue to infringe upon their space or sense of safety (whether I'm aware I'm doing it or not), it is only I to blame for any so called untoward reactions they counter with, so I never held it against them. To this day, I'll gladly reach down and gently pick up a wild snake or other critters, providing I have the sense it is appropriate, and they will allow it.

It is the humans, for the most, that I feel are a bit dicey, and I wonder about. Critters, not so much!

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RE: Orphaned bats!! - 11/27/2011 11:02:56 AM   
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Status: offline 		Snakes, mice those kinds of things don't bother me. I can look at the creepy crawlers in terrariums with no problem. I admit it is a totally irrational fear, and I've gotten past some of it with spiders and what not. It all depends on where they turn up. If I'm in the shower and washing my hair and turn around and see a giant cave cricket I freak!

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RE: Orphaned bats!! - 11/27/2011 12:19:26 PM   
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Snakes, mice those kinds of things don't bother me. I can look at the creepy crawlers in terrariums with no problem. I admit it is a totally irrational fear, and I've gotten past some of it with spiders and what not. It all depends on where they turn up. If I'm in the shower and washing my hair and turn around and see a giant cave cricket I freak!


Since you live in the same general area of the country as I, I desperately need to know what the heck a cave cricket is, in case I ever meet one (if I haven't already)

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RE: Orphaned bats!! - 11/27/2011 1:50:15 PM   
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RE: Orphaned bats!! - 11/27/2011 2:00:43 PM   
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RE: Orphaned bats!! - 11/27/2011 2:10:39 PM   
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Thank you! Don't think I've ever met one of those fellows. They're kind of handsome, as insects go.



Maybe handsome in a creepy kind of way!

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RE: Orphaned bats!! - 11/27/2011 6:04:06 PM   
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Status: offline 		Those were good photos!

They are typically not always spotted like that. They look like oversized daddy long legs. They like dark, damp places. Seeing one is not great, but not horrible. Opening a shed door and seeing HUNDREDS, all over your stuff? Not good.

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RE: Orphaned bats!! - 11/27/2011 7:53:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		I grew up in the projects in New York. Nothing beats going into the kitchen at night for a drink, flipping on the light and a dozen roaches scattering to their hiding places. I still shudder to think of it.

Not trying to play "top this". Just an observation. I know that someone from out west can come up with even worse stories about scorpions and such.

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RE: Orphaned bats!! - 11/27/2011 8:38:46 PM   
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I grew up in the projects in New York. Nothing beats going into the kitchen at night for a drink, flipping on the light and a dozen roaches scattering to their hiding places. I still shudder to think of it.

Not trying to play "top this". Just an observation. I know that someone from out west can come up with even worse stories about scorpions and such.



Ah, well in the "top this" category, having lived in Florida for two years where they have giant FLYING cockroaches along with the scurry at the light kind......

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