Freshstartnewme!
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It was all bit exciting here at our house yesterday as we had seemed to have gained a pet- a bat!!
He stayed there all day and when I got back from work I was a bit concerned so we looked up and called a bat protection service. They told us to get him off the wall, pop him in a box with airholes and then call a lady they gave us a number for who lives in Lincoln.
So we named him Count Von Teabag and into the Yorkshire tea box he went after some squeaking! He was ever so small, only just over an inch long bless him.
So the lady came to pick him up and told us he was only 2.5/3 weeks old- just a baby!! She said his roost wouldn't be very far away and there was no point in taking him away as he wouldn't develop properly and he would be put down :cry:
Now I am such a soft touch with animals, so we said that we saw the bats at night, she said if we could find where the bats roost we could try and put him back but it would be a slim chance we could locate it.
So she came back at 9pm with some bat detectors and we all stood in the garden, it wasn't looking good, but then out came a bat!! After 20 mins we finally located the roost- it was at the side of our house right at the top- about 25ft high!
So next door lent us his rickety old wooden ladder and my brave boyfriend (who doesn't like ladders) climbed all the way up to the top of our house, with a tiny bat in his hand, popped him on the wall about a foot below where his little home was and teabag the bat climbed all the way up and disappeared!!
So a really happy ending to the story- I learn a lot about bats, think I drove the women mad asking questions, they are lovely little animals!
So if you ever find a bat- please find your local protection service and they will come and help you. Little teabag would have died that night probably if we hadn't got him back to his house. So I went to bed with a smile on my face last night, and my boyfriend is a hero!
Just thought I would share the story as it was a nice ending
He stayed there all day and when I got back from work I was a bit concerned so we looked up and called a bat protection service. They told us to get him off the wall, pop him in a box with airholes and then call a lady they gave us a number for who lives in Lincoln.
So we named him Count Von Teabag and into the Yorkshire tea box he went after some squeaking! He was ever so small, only just over an inch long bless him.
So the lady came to pick him up and told us he was only 2.5/3 weeks old- just a baby!! She said his roost wouldn't be very far away and there was no point in taking him away as he wouldn't develop properly and he would be put down :cry:
Now I am such a soft touch with animals, so we said that we saw the bats at night, she said if we could find where the bats roost we could try and put him back but it would be a slim chance we could locate it.
So she came back at 9pm with some bat detectors and we all stood in the garden, it wasn't looking good, but then out came a bat!! After 20 mins we finally located the roost- it was at the side of our house right at the top- about 25ft high!
So next door lent us his rickety old wooden ladder and my brave boyfriend (who doesn't like ladders) climbed all the way up to the top of our house, with a tiny bat in his hand, popped him on the wall about a foot below where his little home was and teabag the bat climbed all the way up and disappeared!!
So a really happy ending to the story- I learn a lot about bats, think I drove the women mad asking questions, they are lovely little animals!
So if you ever find a bat- please find your local protection service and they will come and help you. Little teabag would have died that night probably if we hadn't got him back to his house. So I went to bed with a smile on my face last night, and my boyfriend is a hero!
Just thought I would share the story as it was a nice ending