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I always think it's amusing to consider being attacked by a very small animal.

I can tell you now it bloody hurts. I picked up a bat this morning who had spent the night clinging to a swimming pool skimmer box. He's another young broadnosed bat, like Florence, except he thought he was a carnivore like Vampyrum Spectrum and went the fang. I'm not exaggerating when I say he savaged my hand: he bit me 7 times, drawing blood each time. That's like having 14 sewing pins stabbed into the side of my index finger and palm.

I've had the rabies shots so I'm happy that I won't get lyssavirus, but I soaked my hand in undiluted laundry bleach just to make sure. It stung a bit.

He's another young learner-flyer, weighs 5 grams and has a wingspan of 13cm.

When I weighed him the display on the scales showed "5g" then flickered and showed "bat." I wondered how it knew.

Then the battery went flat. heh.

Re: Ouch!

Date: 24 Jan 2003 15:41 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com
Better to be safe than sorry, even if it stings a bit.

Re: Ouch!

Date: 24 Jan 2003 17:49 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weyrdbird.livejournal.com
*We* don't do puns?

Bee? Sting? *THWAP*

Touche, as it were:D!

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