Posted: 5/22/2015 6:43:08 PM EDT
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So I had a bat inside our pool cage. I didn't touch the critter, but I had to use my pool net, a cardboard box and plastic bag.
My questions: Do I have to do any disinfecting/sterilization of the pool net? Was simply releasing the bat out into the yard OK? I figured it would be ok since we live on a lake and the bat will take care of the bugs... Any advice would be appreciated. PS. I was wearing full gauntlet motorcycle gloves and a thick hoodie. There was no contact with the animal at all. |
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No need to disinfect anything unless you just want to clean up to be safe - in case it went to the bathroom when it was flying around in there. Bat guano in large amounts is very bad for you, but in small amounts you are fine.
Releasing it in the yard was perfect. Thank you for not killing it. Sounds like you did everything right. |
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I could be wrong, but I thought they were only dangerous if they bit you and they had rabies? That's what I was thinking but there was a situation in the NBA a few years ago when Manu Ginobili simply knocked a bat down with his hand and he had to undergo the shots. My trapping of the bat was pretty easy. I had a small box that I was able to place over it (still asleep), slid it down the wall, then trapped the back end with my pool skimmer net. So very little contact was made with the net. I just want to make sure before I dip the thing into the pool. |
| OP seriously? You live in Florida, the queen of the flying insects. Why the hell would you want to kill a bat? They are insect eating machines and nothing else compares in the animal kingdom. I actually install bat houses around my place to encourage them to hang around. Just one of those little puppies will consume over 600 mosquitoes per hour! |
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OP seriously? You live in Florida, the queen of the flying insects. Why the hell would you want to kill a bat? They are insect eating machines and nothing else compares in the animal kingdom. I actually install bat houses around my place to encourage them to hang around. Just one of those little puppies will consume over 600 mosquitoes per hour! Dude. I didn't kill it. I said in the OP that I released it right outside of my cage So it could eat all of the bugs flying around the lake in my backyard! |
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The #1 source of human rabies in the US is bats. Most victims do not remember a bite. Sleep well. |
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