Bat!

[playswithworms]

In addition to the usual baby opossums (I'm up to 17, currently: 6 big kids outside, 1 medium kid outside, and 10 smallish babies inside still, but drinking milk from a dish and ready to start nibbling solid food), I ended up with an orphaned baby Big Brown Bat for a few days. I fed him with the sponge tip of a makeup applicator, something I'd

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[madripoor_rose]

17? That's a lot of possums!

Aw, the baby bat is adorable, and that's clever, the sponge is just the right shape for nomming on.

Recent Indiana tornados weren't anywhere near you, were they?

And yep, had to click through to your journal to comment too, hope LJ gets this glitch fixed fast.

[playswithworms]

Usually I have 50 opossums or so, but I'm trying to cut back!

I felt kind of funny buying two packs of eye shadow applicators in my park naturalist uniform, lol. No, really, these are for work!

Tornadoes were right on my back door, actually! Just some wind and thunderstorms where I was, but there were some roofs taken off and cars flung around only 5 miles away - luckily no one got hurt. We got to test out our emergency tornado plan with the daycamp kids - we had a presenter at the time, and she just moved her talk into the office that is our tornado shelter area and we moved all the kids in there for 30 minutes or so.

[madripoor_rose]

50! Wow, did not know you get that many orphaned opossums!

And yikes, 5 miles is a close call, glad noone was hurt near you.

[tainry]

Wow, possumabunga!
Oh that's really clever! :D

(I got a pre-exposure rabies shot, too, before I knew where I'd end up working. Buuuuut that was 17, 18 years ago. I'd want to get boosted before shenanigans with bats. ^_^;)

[playswithworms]

It's possapalooza at my house, w00t!

Isn't it?! I might have to see if it works for opossums, too, if I get any teeny doobers in this year.

My pre-exposure shots were nearly 20 years ago, too, but when I had my titers checked apparently I'm still good for bat shenanigans!

[hopeofdawn]

Awww, so adorable! How old is he/she? It's so hard to tell with batlings ...

Have you ever seen the Little Drac videos floating around Youtube? They will melt your heart, they really will ...

[playswithworms]

Hm, it's been awhile since I've had any bat babies - I'm guessing two weeks or so?

I did see the Little Drac videos! In fact, that may be where I saw the makeup sponge feeding technique, although I'm pretty sure I read about it somewhere, too...

[rose0mary]

Oh wow!

A bat!

I've never been close enough to touch one.
Or fast enough to take a picture -
Don't even know if I have been near one - a wild bat, that is.

I think I am envious of you!
(babies! so cute!)

[playswithworms]

Wild bats are probably in your area at night - watch around any street lights in the evenings and there are usually a few dipping around, eating bugs.

Bat babies are totally the cutest - I love it when they lick their faces with their little teeny pink tongues ^^

[femme4jack]

+makes incoherent squeaky-happy-cuteness overload noises+

[playswithworms]

Yay happy noises! \o/ Little bat boy learned pretty quick that my voice meant feeding time, and he'd make little squeaky calls when he was hungry ^_^