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TexanAvenger · 11-30-2004, 02:22 PM

After having told my parents, repeatedly, that there are bats in their attic and having repeatedly been told that I'm just crazy (i.e.- bats in the belfrey), I finally got them up there with me and showed them two. That'll serve them right for not listening to a former Boy Scout.

Anyway, now my mom is really freaked out and upset, and my dad doesn't know what to do. Personally, I'd just leave them there. They probably took up there because they felt it worked for them in some way or another, and they're probably keeping the bug-count down up there, aside from the fact that bats are just amazing creatures. But mom would feel better if they were gone, no matter how much I insist that they are not vampire bats, and I'll admit that the thought of possible rabies crossed my mind. Is there any way to get them to leave humanely? Likewise, actually more important to me, are there any more arguments that I can tell mom to get her to leave them there?

MODS- I don't know if this is the right section to put this in, but couldn't think of another place that it would go. Feel free to move it if you feel it should be somewhere else.

11-30-2004, 02:22 PM	#1 (permalink)
TexanAvenger Born-Again New Guy Location: Unfound.	Bats in the belfrey After having told my parents, repeatedly, that there are bats in their attic and having repeatedly been told that I'm just crazy (i.e.- bats in the belfrey), I finally got them up there with me and showed them two. That'll serve them right for not listening to a former Boy Scout. Anyway, now my mom is really freaked out and upset, and my dad doesn't know what to do. Personally, I'd just leave them there. They probably took up there because they felt it worked for them in some way or another, and they're probably keeping the bug-count down up there, aside from the fact that bats are just amazing creatures. But mom would feel better if they were gone, no matter how much I insist that they are not vampire bats, and I'll admit that the thought of possible rabies crossed my mind. Is there any way to get them to leave humanely? Likewise, actually more important to me, are there any more arguments that I can tell mom to get her to leave them there? MODS- I don't know if this is the right section to put this in, but couldn't think of another place that it would go. Feel free to move it if you feel it should be somewhere else.