By BatIntoHell - 28/07/2017 03:21 - United States - Minneapolis

Today, I learned that there's a colony of bats living inside my walls. The devices to prevent them from reentering are angering those remaining inside, and now I can hear them scuttling and screeching in almost every wall and ceiling in my house. FML
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OP here, didn't have an account so I made one to comment! The devices that were installed are like one-way doors, so the bats can leave but not get back in. This meant the ones still in the walls got distressed when the ones outside didn't return. They're classed as "wildlife" meaning they can't be exterminated, so this is one of the easiest, non-lethal solutions to getting them out. It's been about a week, and the wall-scuttling has calmed down as they filter out, but it was like living in a haunted house the first few nights. Plus, over the course of the week 7 bats got to the interior of the house through vents (yeesh.) We caught those safely and returned them outside, but waking up in the middle of the night to a bat in your bedroom is not an alarm I'd recommend.

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GoogieWithers 22

Sounds like they are trapped by the devices, try turning them off near dusk so the bats will leave for hunting and turn them back on again as soon as no more bats leave.

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Luke16eirb7deneuwn1 20

I'm 90% sure that's not how batwonam works

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Luke16eirb7deneuwn1 20

that'a a pretty bat situation you got there... (Sorry for bad pun)

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Glowworm56 26

Now you've got a valid excuse to be Batgirl or Batwoman.

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azouwa 26

Some will eat their weight in bugs. (Not the fruit bats). You may want to reconsider if your yard is bug free (as long as your house doesn't stink) about letting them live. Besides, if your place doesn't stink... that amount of carcasses rotting in the walls will change that.

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Lalala579121 27

I don't think the devices OP I using would kill them. Most likely it's some sound-emitting device that they would just try to avoid.

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Lobby_Bee 17

Opportunity of a life time! Let one of them bite you and turn into Bat Women!

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Luke16eirb7deneuwn1 20

I'm 90% sure that's not how batwonam works

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GoogieWithers 22

Sounds like they have gone bat shit crazy!

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RichardPencil 30

Cram the spaces between your walls with Louisville Sluggers.

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GoogieWithers 22

Sounds like they are trapped by the devices, try turning them off near dusk so the bats will leave for hunting and turn them back on again as soon as no more bats leave.

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Otterbot 3

OP here, didn't have an account so I made one to comment! The devices that were installed are like one-way doors, so the bats can leave but not get back in. This meant the ones still in the walls got distressed when the ones outside didn't return. They're classed as "wildlife" meaning they can't be exterminated, so this is one of the easiest, non-lethal solutions to getting them out. It's been about a week, and the wall-scuttling has calmed down as they filter out, but it was like living in a haunted house the first few nights. Plus, over the course of the week 7 bats got to the interior of the house through vents (yeesh.) We caught those safely and returned them outside, but waking up in the middle of the night to a bat in your bedroom is not an alarm I'd recommend.

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boopingsnoot 24

Rabies vaccines???

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Sheri Raver 9

Been there...you definitely have my sympathy.

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Xynthetica 7

OP, I was nowhere near a calm as you seem in your posts and I only had two bats about 4-5 months apart! I freaked lol, I wouldn't be able to live alone ever again if I had 7 in a week. Glad your trapper had those devices, my leasing company really didn't give a s**t that I even was having a problem.

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Otterbot 3

I was pretty freaked out by the first few, especially since they were coming from upstairs and thus definitely from inside the house, but by the third or fourth one I was more like, "really, again?" Since they clearly just wanted to get back out and not attack anyone the fear factor dropped quickly. We had a large bucket that became the "bat bucket" and was kept near us at all times for bat snagging, I'd say by now my husband and I are experts :P

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