This odd picture is a bird's eye view of a bat in Aaron's little blue wagon, snuggled under a heated towel. We came home from picking up Raha from football practice and he noticed a little critter in the wagon. On first glance we thought it was dead, but then realized it was a tiny baby bat. After LOTS of phone calls and a panic over how to keep the little guy warm (happy and wiggly with hot lentils wrapped in a towel) I found a wildlife rescue organization who, 1. answered the phone after business hours and 2. immediately offered to come pick up the baby if we could meet them at the Shively Animal Clinic where they had another animal waiting. After looking at pictures of bats in KY, I think it is a common brown bat, especially because they have babies in mid-June and this one didn't look old enough to fly. We'll call tomorrow and keep our fingers crossed that baby bat makes it.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Bat adventure
This odd picture is a bird's eye view of a bat in Aaron's little blue wagon, snuggled under a heated towel. We came home from picking up Raha from football practice and he noticed a little critter in the wagon. On first glance we thought it was dead, but then realized it was a tiny baby bat. After LOTS of phone calls and a panic over how to keep the little guy warm (happy and wiggly with hot lentils wrapped in a towel) I found a wildlife rescue organization who, 1. answered the phone after business hours and 2. immediately offered to come pick up the baby if we could meet them at the Shively Animal Clinic where they had another animal waiting. After looking at pictures of bats in KY, I think it is a common brown bat, especially because they have babies in mid-June and this one didn't look old enough to fly. We'll call tomorrow and keep our fingers crossed that baby bat makes it.
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what happened with the bat?
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