I've got a bat ...

I echo this. Call a pro in the morning.

 

Sounds scary. I'd need liquid courage.

 

Como Estas you nasty liddle bat

 

You don't want to piss those fuckers off. Wait for a professional, but I'm guessing they're breeding somewhere in your house.

We never had them in the house, but we had a bunch who decided to live during the warm months in between the shutters and the house of my sister and my windows growing up. We had no mosquitoes, but piles of guano under our shutters that my dad had to sweep up about once a week. We counted the last summer we had the shutters up and there were probably 150 of them between our two windows.

 

If watching a baseball game on TV is more fun with a heavy dose of liquid courage, it goes without saying that so is chasing vermin.

 

There are a couple of Web sites that describe how to sneak up on a roosting bat and catch it in a coffee can or a cardboard box. That's doable, I guess. I'll just have to suck it up and do it. <shudder>

 

Please take pictures or keep a running journal and report back to us.

 

I opened the basement hatch a couple weeks ago while I was moving in a couch for my new basement rec room. Halfway through I got a phone call, so the hatch was open for a good 30 minutes unattended while it was getting dusk. I saw it for the first time a couple days later, flying around the basement, but the exterminator couldn't find it when he showed up. No more sightings until tonight.

 

Banish said bat to the belfry!

 

http://www.fundwildlife.org/coexist/bats.html

Sack up, you wuss.

 

Call Bruce Wayne.

 

Go for it, Cujo.