Maddie

[den]

Last night I was woken at 2am by Maddie bouncing off the walls of the tent and growling. She'd woken from hibernation to do a little opportunistic feeding, and there was no feed. I climbed from my nice warm bed and looked through the mesh. She was flapping from one side to the other, then plopping onto the empty dish and biting at the edges before growling in frustration. I had to get her some meal worms but the bucket is outside.

Den in his jammies. 2am. Outside. Middle of winter.

I caught a dozen meal worms in the dark by trawling my figers through the bran and grabbing any wriggling tubular things I could feel, but at 2am in the middle of winter I stopped feeling anything after a while. I went back into my room, which oddly enough felt warm now, and piled the dead worms into the dish.

Maddie growled at me then fell head-first into the worm pile. I went to sleep to the sounds of happy crunching. This morning Maddie was hanging from the roof, asleep and considerably fatter.

Comments

[arcturax.livejournal.com]

Yay! Hopefully she will make it through ok!

Good work as always Batty.

A myotis social column?

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

Maddie Bat, late of Dubbo wilds, is wintering at the Battyden hotel. She reports the latnight room service a trifle slow, the facilities adequate, and the lighting florescent. The food, however, is plentiful and excellent on arrival despite the wait.

Re: A myotis social column?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Vespedalus Times, actully.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

You're such a nice daddy. :)

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Oh, she's so tiny and cute!

Den in his jammies. 2am. Outside. Middle of winter.

Somehow my mind just... stalled... on the first phrase. Rowr. :)

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

They burrow deep into the bran, and the sheer volume of worms actually makes the bran feel warm about 1" down. So when I said I had to dig, I had to dig

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

my jammies are just a pair of boxer shorts.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[hendikins.livejournal.com]

As somebody who has been sitting at the computer in the garage, wearing only boxer shorts, at 5am with the temperature a nice pleasant -4ºC, I can definitely sympathise...

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Double ROWR!

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one who read "brain" for "bran"?

[makovette.livejournal.com]

Wee little thing isn't she?! The bottle cap and knife really put her in perspective, those worms are half as long as her body.

Amazing critters! Thank you very much for the photo Batty!

CYa!
Mako

[kayshapero]

Thanks for the picture - MY she's tiny. Also cute!

[kamau-d-lyon.livejournal.com]

At times I think animals have something against us getting a full nights sleep. Looking at the size of Maddie and the worms I'd say she is a Lot fatter if she ate 12.

[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

Hmm! You know she could be a companion for Fly, Speedy and Boris:

Maddie the Swiss Army Bat!

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

there's a 4th bug in production, but she's not a bat. Shh!

[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

She...?

Oh. Right. Shushing up now. ;)

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Such a caring bat-daddy :)

the picture made me giggle though, I'm half asleep and rather than realise the knife was there for a size comparison it was more kind of a "now, what could a boy scout produce given these 3 items" lol

[jenny_evergreen]

Our hero! :)

[kythrain.livejournal.com]

Neat! Is Maddie a bat you're keeping for educational purposes or one you're going to release? I've dealt with mealworms before putting their food in the bran, and getting them out for the frogs at the center. Squirmy wriggly little things.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Maddie will be released as soon as the weather starts to warm up.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

You should see these:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/desu/257955.html
http://www.livejournal.com/users/desu/258265.html