I Rescued a Bat ( Got Myself In Trouble? )

[Sarcosuchus]

Rescued Bat

As I was on my way to jog, I found helpless tiny bat being attacked by a crow. Instinctively I rescued it, one of its wings has a fractured bone hence prevents it from flying.

This bat's face is like a dog, high ears, brownish to black fur. I carried the bat with my hands ( bad idea? I read bats carry diseases and if it bites you you need to get rabies shot )

I gave it water and mango..and I want to take it to the vet. But reading online about disease and **** it just makes me uneasy...I just wanted to help...what should I do?:eek:

[Sarcosuchus]

Oh and it did bite me, gentle, I pushed away, didn't draw blood, no scratch...I washed my hands withs soap...hmmm:irked:

[varanio]

You might want to look up a wildlife rehabilitation institute in your yellowpages and have them pick the little guy/girl up for you if you cant drop him off.

[coura]

You might want to look up a wildlife rehabilitation institute in your yellowpages and have them pick the little guy/girl up for you if you cant drop him off.
Do that and also get a doctor appointement. Desinfect your hands and bitting place with alcool. This guys carry some serious stuff. That was a fruit bat or flying fox rigth:confused:

[CTU2fan]

I found a bat once, I was at a local stream catching crayfish and there was a floating tennis ball in there with a small bat clinging to it. It was one of the common local insectivorous bats, a brown bat I think. Anyway fished him out and brought him home (he wasn't happy about me either). Anyway when dusk came I brought him outside as he was dried off...he flew right off. Kind of random I know but it's rare to really get to look at a bat up close.

[kafiltafiisch]

ive helped brown bats before mostly just by picking them up with socks on my hand or something protective but none have tried to bite me yet.

[phantoms]

if you were bitten and there is a chance for rabies you will want to keep the bat or bring it somewhere where it will be tested for rabies. if they dont have the bat to test for rabies you will be subjected to all the rabies shots and stuff whether you have it or not. if the bat was being attacked by crows in the daylight then im thinking it was sick already. whether sick with rabies or not, you wont know unless its tested

[USMCtanker]

i have seen alot and i was always scared to pick them up lol. man they look so mean with those fangs

[Vicious_Fish]

I'd recommend getting you and the bat looked at as well. Bats are up there with being the #1 vectors for rabies.

[phantoms]

ive moved a few to safer locations that were sickly looking. i always wore leather gloves when i did it though.

[adamstv]

its what u get for being nice. :D

[dragonfish]

its what u get for being nice. :D

No good deed goes unpunished.

[davo]

Yeah, there will be institutions that will take it off your hand. I would check yourself out too, sure you'll be fine though. I like bats, had one knock itself unconcious when it flew in the house- gave it some water then returned it outside when it came around.

[MATTHEWS]

Bats are good, bats eat bugs, sick bats bad. Kill bat and put it where others (people or animals) won't mess with it. We had a sick bat on or front porch in broad daylight and this is the fate that our front porch bat met with. Don't mess with bats!

[SemperFish]

nocturnal animals with rabies are often out in the daylight. Crows are diurnal so one of them was not right. Likely your bat is now sick if it was not before it met Mr Crow. Good luck, hope youre not too needlephobic.
Then again....any evidence of super powers yet?

[Sarcosuchus]

If the bat has rabies and I got biten and am infected, should it have taken effect by now? If so, I am good here with no strange feelings. The bat gave me a gentle bite, no cut whatsoever, didn't draw blood, not even a scratch..and I pushed away quickly.

The bat is eating banana right now.

[davo]

do you have a pic of it? Glad to hear you're not foaming at the mouth.

[Vicious_Fish]

Rabies symptoms can sometimes take months to show up. I'd still visit a doctor just to be sure.

[Sarcosuchus]

Oh I am turning into Batman!:eek::D

Yes I took pics but too much stuff on computer already so I'm in no mood to upload the pics yet, but I will post them.

Vicious_Fish I will check doc, thank you very much.

[rook45]

Next time don't be a hero.....Let nature do it's thing.

[davo]

so I'm in no mood to upload the pics yet, but I will post them.



sounds like one of the earlier symptoms of batmanitus.

[coura]

sounds like one of the earlier symptoms of batmanitus.
I think you are rigth:confused: another simptoms include: addicion to use unclean underware ,lack of daily personal higene, nigth time activitys like chasing mouts and ecolocation kind of thing, and also hanging yourself by the feet upside down:eek::WHOA::ROFL::ROFL:

[Mad About Cichlids]

Caught a bat once, it was hiding between two stump of trees. Brought it home in a cardboard box and released it within an hour after I didn't know what to do with it:ROFL:

[Kioka]

And a sudden urge to make a lot of money and fight crime.

[coura]

Caught a bat once, it was hiding between two stump of trees. Brought it home in a cardboard box and released it within an hour after I didn't know what to do with it:ROFL:
You could have sell it to mcdonalds:D They are always looking for some to put in there´s "Big bat " Mcmenu. They are the next big thing in there, second only to "meat by products" Mcmenu:ROFL:

[Albel]

I so love these little creatures! :) Whenever I go fishing, and the sun starts to go down, there are dozens of these cuties that come fly around to grab the bugs off the lack (and those pestering me ;)). We only have cute little insectivor bats here though, no adorable fruit eaters! :)

[coura]

And a sudden urge to make a lot of money and fight crime.
Oh and dont forget the urge to find a real dorky side kick:D:ROFL:

[SemperFish]

If some dweeb in spandex starts hanging around you in time to go get a latex suit.