More Bats!
Last night, I woke up at 4:00 am, and said, I think there's a bat
in the room.
There was, and I caught it using an empty yogurt container about 4:30 in the mudroom. Around 9:00 am, I turned it over to an animal control officer for rabies testing.
The CDC says, you should seek medical attention for rabies if you wake up with a bat in your room, because bats can leave undetectable bites.
Undetectable, that is, until you drop dead from rabies, which is 100% fatal.
We'll hear back about this most recently caught bat sometime later in the week, but we're probably going to start prophylactic post-exposure treatments before that. Fortunately, it's not nine shots in the abdomen, the way it was when they were trying to scare us away from petting stray dogs back in the third grade. Now it's four shots over the course of as many weeks.
We're taking steps to get rid of the infestation, but it will help us to sleep at night knowing that we are protected against waking up foaming at the mouth.
<obviousjoke>I've also invested in a crucifix, some garlic, and a wooden stake, just in case.</obviousjoke>
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