{"id":7101,"date":"2011-08-22T08:18:15","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T13:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/?p=7101"},"modified":"2011-08-22T08:18:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T13:18:15","slug":"bat-adventures-unwelcome-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/22\/bat-adventures-unwelcome-guests\/","title":{"rendered":"Bat Adventures: Unwelcome Guests"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"What'sIt’s time for our house guests to go. <\/p>\n

Not the relatives who are down for a visit, but the bats that have moved into our home. Last week was the final straw – we found evidence of them in the actual living area for the very first time. Previously, they had respected our space and kept their mess and activity confined to the attic area.<\/p>\n

We first discovered the bats a couple years after we moved in. We could hear the scratching in the ceilings and walls and decided it was time to investigate. The droppings in the attic gave us a sense of the size of the animals and where they were. At that point we thought it was mice, or maybe squirrels, so we set out traps of various sizes to see what would happen.<\/p>\n

Bottom line … nothing happened, we didn’t catch a thing.<\/p>\n

Shortly thereafter I was crawling around above our home office and heard a crunch. Uh oh. Thankfully it came from between two boards I was moving around to span the rafters rather than under my knee. Dead mouse? Nope, dead winged mouse – a bat. That’s how we first figured out what was up there.<\/p>\n

In a way, learning it was a bat was a relief. We were worried it was a squirrel or something else that was more destructive. Bats seemed less concerning, though still potentially a problem. We eventually gave up trying to get rid of them and reluctantly accepted them as “tenants.”<\/p>\n

But last week’s activity changes the dynamic of our informal contract. We called in the experts for a consult … more on that in the next installment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s time for our house guests to go. Not the relatives who are down for a visit, but the bats that have moved into our home. Last week was the final straw – we found evidence of them in the actual living area for the very first time. Previously, they had respected our space and kept their mess and activity confined to the attic area. We first discovered the bats a couple years after we<\/p>\n

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