speaking of Bats

[Tony-NJ]

do any animals just freak you out???? For me it is Bats and snakes.....

 

[Saffron]

I actually like bats and have a little hand-made bat house in my backyard for them to come live in. I haven't seen any since they cut down a patch of evergreens in the woods behind my house though.

Alligators, man eating sharks, crocodiles and Komodo dragons freak me out. Not that I've seen any in the wild , but just the thought of seeing one in the wild freaks me out! I'd probably faint. Oh! And those sawfish things freak me out too! YIKES!!!!!!

Oh! I saw lots of HUGE alligators sunning themselves on the banks of little ponds going to and from the airport in Orlando. ACK! That was close enough for me!

I don't like ickity, stickity bugs either, like slugs, thousand leggers, little lime green inch worms or those kind of things. Ewwwww! I run away from them.

 

[dtuleya]

The only thing that truly freaks me out is when I'm in a body of water (ocean, lake, etc) and something brushes past my leg. I freak. I hate that.

 

[caitycaity]

i don't like bugs or snakes.

 

[Tiggeroo]

In Chicago, I think it's the Brookfield Zoo there is a bat exhibit. You walk under a ledge/cave thingy. and all in front of you are bats in a huge area. They are loose with i think a small low fence. Theoretically they could fly where you are but they say they don't because of the way the ledge sticks out and their radar. It is very very creepy. You can see so many of lots of kinds of bats.

 

[honeywolf7]

bats, most reptiles and amphibians, birds flying loose

 

[HoneyPooh]

Bats, bats, bats........arghhhhh..... We came home to our apartment once and one flew out the front door. Wouldn't have been so bad but once we went all the way inside we found the house full of them. When I say full, I mean hundreds of bats hanging from curtains, clothing in the closets, lampshades and flying around. Had to move out for a month because it's illegal to kill them as they eat "skeeters". Needless to say, I can't stand the sight of a bat now. Also not fond of gnats.

 

[Saffron]

How long were you gone!

That sounds like something out of "The Birds" movie. Yikes!

 

[Tiggeroo]

Honeypoh, was this in NJ. Oh my goodness that is unbelievable. I remember as kids we used to go to Batsto village. There was an old mansion there and under all the eaves and shutters bats hung. I used to think that was why it was called Batsto.

 

[HoneyPooh]

Yep, it was in NJ. We had left for work in the morning and dropped our 3yo and 2 mth old at my moms and hubby and I went to work. After work we picked up the kids and went shopping. All together we were gone about 12 hours. It was JUST like something out of the Birds movie! A few years ago they came out with a movie like that called "Bats" and my hubby tried to get me to go see it.......I DONT THINK SO!!!! We had to move out for a month and in that time all "you-know-what" broke out in our apartment. The apartment manager let her nephew in the apartment with a BB gun to shoot at the bats (even though it was illegal) so in addition to bat doo doo (guano if you want to be technical) we had bat blood and BB gun holes all over the place, in lampshades, screens, picture frames, furniture etc. She also had numerous others come through just too see the "crazy place full of bats" as she called it, it was like grand central station in there. Then to add insult to injury, the firm they hired to finally get rid of the things left behind a giant mess. To get rid of them, they made trap doors in the ceilings and put holes in the walls and used those to put a powder down that would make the bats thirsty and want to leave. As you can imagine there was white powder EVERYWHERE and we had no way of knowing what was this bat repelling substance and what was just from the drilling and sawing of the walls and ceilings. Needless to say we had to throw away absolutely everything in the childrens room. They didn't cover anything in the place before they started. Everything else had to be professionally cleaned. They never did figure out exactly how they all got in or why they came. There were 12 apartments in the complex and not a single bat was found in any other apartment. The only funny part was one evening we went over to check on how things were going and someone had mentioned to the local police about our problem(word travels in a small town). Well they came over to check it out, curiosity I guess, and decided to try and help us get a few out (we had been trying to bag them and release them somewhere in the woods). Well, to see these two big burly cops in uniform squealing like little girls was hilarious One had a broom and the other the trash bag and the one with the bag was the funniest because he keep making a really funny noise everytime he thought a bat was actually heading for the bag. He kept saying "what if he misses the bag and gets in my hair", what made it so funny was that he had NO HAIR and a his hat on! They were worth their weight in gold in amusement even if they didn't catch a single bat. Anyway, we moved the following month and didn't look back!