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Penicillin... Penis-illin'
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I’ll up you one.

Last May the cat and I were rudely woken up 4am ish by a mad flying ruckus going on in the bedroom. She goes into full attack mode in the dark and my immediate thought was it was a bird, but it was way too early yet.

Shook my head and eyes awake and realized it was a bat, just by the sound of its wings and high pitch echo location it was making.

Grabbed a short handled fish net and caught him mid air as he was flying in circles looking for an escape route away from the cat.

The Glock would have been overkill and a poor choice, so the UF2 was right there and put into action. A butt end thump to the brain stem ended it instantly.

Felt sorry for the little guy, but in the house, especially in the bedroom, is off limits, no exceptions.

Thought about turning him in for rabies testing, but he didn’t bite us and no fluids were leaked out.

Waited till after sunrise & breakfast for a picture, then buried him in the garden.

Never did figure out how he got in.

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I’ll up you one.

Last May the cat and I were rudely woken up 4am ish by a mad flying ruckus going on in the bedroom. She goes into full attack mode in the dark and my immediate thought was it was a bird, but it was way too early yet.

Shook my head and eyes awake and realized it was a bat, just by the sound of its wings and high pitch echo location it was making.

Grabbed a short handled fish net and caught him mid air as he was flying in circles looking for an escape route away from the cat.

The Glock would have been overkill and a poor choice, so the UF2 was right there and put into action. A butt end thump to the brain stem ended it instantly.

Felt sorry for the little guy, but in the house, especially in the bedroom, is off limits, no exceptions.

Thought about turning him in for rabies testing, but he didn’t bite us and no fluids were leaked out.

Waited till after sunrise & breakfast for a picture, then buried him in the garden.

Never did figure out how he got in.

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Not the kind of fluids leaked, and batshit crazy I'm use to in the bedroom.....
 
I’ll up you one.

Last May the cat and I were rudely woken up 4am ish by a mad flying ruckus going on in the bedroom. She goes into full attack mode in the dark and my immediate thought was it was a bird, but it was way too early yet.

Shook my head and eyes awake and realized it was a bat, just by the sound of its wings and high pitch echo location it was making.

Grabbed a short handled fish net and caught him mid air as he was flying in circles looking for an escape route away from the cat.

The Glock would have been overkill and a poor choice, so the UF2 was right there and put into action. A butt end thump to the brain stem ended it instantly.

Felt sorry for the little guy, but in the house, especially in the bedroom, is off limits, no exceptions.

Thought about turning him in for rabies testing, but he didn’t bite us and no fluids were leaked out.

Waited till after sunrise & breakfast for a picture, then buried him in the garden.

Never did figure out how he got in.

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Gotta be careful with bats. Only vampire bats drink blood, but most of them carry viruses.

It has to do with their immune system (and why virology research into bats, is a thing. If we can understand how bats tolerate very high viral loads without their immune systems going into overdrive, and replicate that in humans, it has the potential for a lot of applications).
 
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