Bat L

[den]

This afternoon Duncan The Vet handed me a pillow case containing 8 grams of growling anger. She is a broadnosed bat. I can't see anything wrong with her, but she had some mites in her fur that you see on bats who aren't well enough to groom properly. I don't think she's been feeding herself properly judging by the way she scarfed down a dozen meal worms.

And so Lucretia enters my life.

Comments

Re: Real life Batman

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

She's the size of a large mouse so a pillow case was way more than she needed. Right now she's sleeping on a strip of cloth hanging in a modified cat tent.

Re: Real life Batman

[openheartsoftly.livejournal.com]

Mako's right, pictures pretty please.

Cept, about the pillow case, a bat would fit, but not try to fight her way out of the case, bite or something?

Is the tent open? I mean if she wanted to and were able to, could she just leave? That's the goal - yes?

Have the best

Re: Real life Batman

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

The tent is about 12cu.inches in size, with a zipper in one side. It gives the bat stretching and flapping room they don't get in a pillow case. When it's time to go I just hang the tent outside with the zip open.

bat tents (http://members.optusnet.com.au/~denniswhitton/binkey.html)

All a bat needs is a cool dark place to hang and they're happy. They seem to like the pillow cases.

Re: Real life Batman

[openheartsoftly.livejournal.com]

Binkey rocks! Thanks for leaving that link for me to find. It made me smile bunches.

Have the best Batman

Re: Real life Batman

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Binkey is my Stunt Bat when I demonstrate the correct method of catching a microbat.