Dozing off at the end of the evening, I dreamed that there was something flitting in the blue glow of the TV light. Then I realized there was no dream as I wasn’t sleeping. We had a bat trapped in the house and it was down here in the basement. So here are my bat removal tips gleaned from seven minutes of experience:
- Turn on the lights where you do not want the bat to go. They will flit in those rooms but will exit again.
- Bats are quite cheery when there is just one of them and one of you.
- A table cloth held up as a screen works as a good corralling device.
- Keep it moving.
- At least one bat in the world has a hard time seeing the wall above a door and will whap into it over and over.
- Bats tire after ten minutes of swooping and wall whapping.
- Once tired, bats are happy to land and be gathered up in a table cloth and taken outside.
- Our cat is not a bat attacker.
One more thing. Human reactions can range from terror to fascination in these moments.