Savaged By Hamsters
25 January 2003 10:07![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
denI 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.
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.
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Re: Bat-bathing 101?
Date: 24 Jan 2003 23:33 (UTC)I held her down on a linen pad and used a wet cotton bud to rub her down while she growled and bit at me.
Then, after I'd soaked her fur thoroughly, I used a dry cotton bud and tissues to dry her off while she growled and bit at me.
Then I fed her and for the next 5 weeks she growled and bit at me.
Re: Bat-bathing 101?
Date: 24 Jan 2003 23:38 (UTC)Mind you, we didn't wash the software with a cotton bud, but there was much growling and biting going on, and not the pleasant sort.