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?

 

[Sarcosuchus]

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

 

[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

 

[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.