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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Date: 24 Jan 2003 15:11 (UTC)(runs away giggling like mad)
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Date: 24 Jan 2003 15:12 (UTC)Perhaps it's because you use it to only weigh bats? my goodness, it's gotta AI in it =8D
bring on the talkie toaster!
Ouch!
Date: 24 Jan 2003 15:14 (UTC)no subject
Date: 24 Jan 2003 15:21 (UTC)He may not have been on time, but he was certainly, ah, punctual.
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Date: 24 Jan 2003 15:22 (UTC)no subject
Date: 24 Jan 2003 15:37 (UTC)Re: Ouch!
Date: 24 Jan 2003 15:41 (UTC)no subject
Date: 24 Jan 2003 16:08 (UTC)Intersting because some of the microbats (ghost bats) outwheigh the blossom bats by up to 10:1, and prey on them.
Unt, ve don't DO punns HERE!
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Date: 24 Jan 2003 16:21 (UTC)Still, it's nice to know that humans aren't the only ones who occasionally think they're vampires in the face of all evidence. Just keep an eye on him to make sure he doesn't start wearing black trenchcoats and lots of eye makeup. *grin*
Seriously, I hope that you can get him rehabilitated without losing too much more skin to the little guy...soaking in bleach can't be fun.
Peace!
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Date: 24 Jan 2003 16:29 (UTC)Gah, get this man some Hibistat - hurts more and smells better.
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Date: 24 Jan 2003 16:57 (UTC)Let me get Azhie...
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Date: 24 Jan 2003 17:24 (UTC)Hey, there's a really cool nifty invention called The Glove you can buy now. I hear OJ Simpson has a pair that don't fit too well...
CYa!
MAko
Re: Ouch!
Date: 24 Jan 2003 17:49 (UTC)Bee? Sting? *THWAP*
Touche, as it were:D!
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Date: 24 Jan 2003 18:38 (UTC)A.
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Date: 24 Jan 2003 19:18 (UTC)no subject
Date: 24 Jan 2003 20:30 (UTC)The two bats I have in care are both the same age and species, yet so totally different in temperament. The female is quiet and likes being held while I feed her but the male is an utter bastard.
It's not a sex-thing in case you're wondering. I've had happy males and females I wouldn't trust. One female hated me for 5 weeks simply because I gave her a bath. (she'd been caught by a cat and I had to wash the cat spit off.)
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Date: 24 Jan 2003 20:32 (UTC)no subject
Date: 24 Jan 2003 20:34 (UTC)no subject
Date: 24 Jan 2003 20:37 (UTC)Bat-bathing 101?
Date: 24 Jan 2003 21:06 (UTC)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.
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Date: 25 Jan 2003 00:57 (UTC)no subject
Date: 25 Jan 2003 15:38 (UTC)