Bats. Yup, I'll give myself nightmares over it. I'll fret so much I clench my jaw, inflame my TMJ and wake up with a headache...all over these insect eating,disease carrying, furry, freaky ass flying mammals.
2:45 am all the dogs get up and go to the bottom of the stairs...I thought it might just be Danny Joe getting a late night snack or something, but I sat up. Autumn comes in our room and she's stuttering and stammering and my first thought is she is confused...is she having a seizure?! It's a weird new kind of seizure then. I grab hold of her forearms because I feared she might drop down into a tonic clonic seizure and either fall through the stein cabinet or hurt herself on the door, and she finally gets it out, you can hear the fear in her voice..."Mom! I think there is a bat in my room! I woke up and I heard the fluttering of something flying and those chirping noises they make! I sat on my bed with the cover over my head and then when it crossed to the other side of my room I got down and ran out the door!" Poor kid is sleeping on a loft bed about 3 feet from the ceiling! I would have shit my pants! Anybody who knows me , knows that I have a major fear of bats.
Since we have moved into this house every summer in late July, early August for a week or two we end up with bats in our house.The first time I was sittign watchign TV with Dan and I see somethign flying aroudn th eliving room, and my first thougth was "Oh one of the birds got out." So I look over at the bird cage to see that all three cockatiels are still perched there and Sage is still in his cage and that is when it dawned on me "BAT!" and I dove under the couch cushions.Once when I was sitting in the recliner in the kitchen talking to Danny Joe, my lovebird Sage got out of his cage and flew over to my head. Except I saw him flying to me out of the corner of my eye, and jumped up and screamed "BAT!BAT!" and ran and locked myself in the bathroom, while Danny Joe is out there trying to get Sage to land on his arm before a dog eats or steps on him. It was classic. I once shut Autumn down in the big kid playroom when I discovered a bat and ran for my life. Last summer one must have come in during the night and somehow ended up in the turtle tank, that morning Owen comes running to me in tears (afraid of the bat) telling me there is a bat in the turtle tank,I didn't really believe him...mostly they come in at dusk, and I thought maybe he was talkign about a toy bat of some kind, so I get up to investigate. Yup, there is a bat, clinging to the rocks and the turtles are trying to drag him down into he water. GO TURTLES! GO TURTLES! GO TURTLES! ( no fear PETA members...Dan saved the out of luck bat in a towel and safely deposited him outside over the fence near the trees)And the time I was drying my hair in the bathroom and I see this shadow on the ceiling and think to myself "Damn! That's one big-ass moth!" only to then figure out in my glassless semi-blind state it was a bat...thankfully I was fully dressed because I ran screaming from the bathroom, LOL. And those are just the memorable times...it doesn't include the 18 or so other generic times I just ran for cover, lol.
So back to our present unwelcomed midnight visitor... Dan gets out of bed and goes up to investigate and can't find the bat anywhere upstairs...not in Autumn's room, the boys' room, the bathroom...so he comes downstairs to check and see if the bat came down stairs and he goes to turn on the kitchen light and HE sees Piper chaisng somethign aroudn our kitchen floor. Sure enough it was the bat. Piper our cat had it!It couldn't fly anymore, but it was alive. Dan scoope dit up and tossed it outside to see if it would recover. Ther eis no bat so either it recovered and flew away or died and something took it away.
Go Piper!!!Piper, although I am not her favorite person, she has now earned her spot in my house. No longer can Dan call my cats useless!
My new Favorite Kitty....Piper
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