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ramen_addict

Filbert II

Jan 02, 2006 18:14

We have a bat in the house again ( Read more... )

wild critters!

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beehner January 3 2006, 00:19:03 UTC

How exciting! I've never seen bats. We have squirrels living in our attic right now, though. XD

ramen_addict January 3 2006, 00:26:39 UTC

You've never seen a bat? They're so cute and terrifying! We see the little brown bats at night sometimes in the warmer months, but I've seen a couple wlid ones up close in proper lighting (obviously) and lots of tiny vampire bats and big ol' fruit bats at the zoo.

beehner January 3 2006, 00:30:47 UTC

Aaaaw! Nope, never seen one! Just freaky squirrels running around above my room.

ramen_addict January 3 2006, 00:37:35 UTC

Hopefully you'll get to see some out and about eventually, then. Iowa seems to be in a battier area than Florida. ;)

morbidmoony January 3 2006, 03:10:00 UTC

My parents say there used to be bats in the area, we even had a little bat-house in the backyard when I was little. But they've been gone for a long time. Probably since Orlando started developing.

But, does this make you Batgirl? ;)

ramen_addict January 3 2006, 03:57:09 UTC

I don't know how many there are in downtown Cincinnati, so that may or may not be the reason. *shrugs*

As a matter of fact, that's exactly what the family called me for several weeks afterward. X3

mycrystalball January 3 2006, 03:20:10 UTC

i've always wanted a pet bat.

i'd call him batty. like from ferngully.

ramen_addict January 3 2006, 03:58:23 UTC

I think technically you're not supposed to have bats as pets, but if they were being rehabilitated from injuries in the wild that would be a WHOLE other story... *looks innocent*

dizzycadence January 3 2006, 04:20:24 UTC

Bats are like winged pug puppies! SO WEIRDLY CUTE. *hugs the flying doggies*

Godspeed, little doodle... *doffs imaginary hat*

ramen_addict January 3 2006, 04:29:06 UTC

I KNOW. Whenever we go into the nocturnal house at the zoo I love stopping to look at the widdle vampire bats with their ears all twitching about and their pointy widdle faces and their teeny-tiny fangs, and then later we get to the flying foxes and they're so big and lovable! Like leathery-wingéd fuzzy toys! ♥ *gives the exclamation points a workout*

snowcoma January 3 2006, 07:30:10 UTC

I love your icon!

dansaikyo January 3 2006, 06:49:52 UTC

I... uh... have never seen a bat for real in my life.

I think though that I'd freak out. They can carry rabies ya know!!

*hides in the corner from nature and thanks the baby jebus that he's living in a concrete and steel anti-nature-zone*

ramen_addict January 3 2006, 07:10:25 UTC

Haven't you ever been to a zoo? They probably won't have such common things as little brown bats, but vampire bats are way cuter than any blood-sucker should be.

I'd only be worried about rabies if a bat were actually flying AT ME and not blatantly going in circles and back and forth trying to find a way out to safety.

*loves nature as long as it's not making her itchy*

dansaikyo January 3 2006, 07:27:42 UTC

Um... I've only been to the zoo twice in my life, and both times I was so young that I don't really remember much of anything. I don't even know if I saw the bats, I mean, my parents tended to rush us through things like that anyway.

I love nature... but... on a postcard, or with plenty of clean bathrooms and no bugs or dirt.

ramen_addict January 3 2006, 07:48:16 UTC

You are a sad, deprived little man. Go! Observe! Learn! Preferably on a day when the weather's nice but all the munchkins are at school, because then you can move about at your own pace and not be subjected to more annoyance than necessary. And wear good walking shoes, too. It's really interesting, at least to me, because when else are you going to get the chance to see an alligator up close without being in mortal danger?

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