On 9/13/07 4:56 PM, Laree Shulman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We would like to put up a bat house/houses to combat the flying insect
population around here. Is there any need to worry about bat
droppings underneath the houses/s if they are in your pasture? I
can't find out anything about that
On 9/13/07 5:12 PM, Nancy Sturm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We have always had bats in the upstairs of our barn and sometimes in the
atic of the house.
I got plans and my husband built a lovely bat house several years ago. They
have never used it - the little brats.
Nancy
They are
here we have different types. we have little bats the size of a mouse
and then we have these things we call Bull Bats but I think their
official name is something weird like Night hawk or something. They
are HUGE and like the batman bat. I had a brother who died, he was a
commercial fisherman,
On 9/14/07, Robyn Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
. The
Missouri Division of Health Central Laboratory has never isolated
rabies from a bird, fox squirrel, gray or ground squirrel, chipmunk or
field mouse, wild rat, rabbit
I was told this is because these animals are so small the
I dont see how poop could be communicable unless it was fresh, still body
temperature, and entered your body thru an open sore or you injested it.
Excuse the graphic nature of my answer, but rabies isn't even shed through
feces, blood or urine. So even if you rubbed an open cut against a
yes, when Stali was infectious Fox bit him on the rump. I was freaked
about that too, but they told me it was almost impossible for fox to
get it that way. he would have to somehow bite the exact spot where
the virus was travelling up nerve fluid and then get it in an open
sore. Its very
a man told me he worked for the health dept and went out on a rabies
call. he said he somehow got there before the sheriff or animal
control and said I drove up to the sight of a very small, very
elderly woman, standing with a live fox hanging suspended from her
lower lip by his teeth,
.unless you had a cut where the horse drooled and then you'd be in trouble.
When the whole AIDS thing started coming out I was in nursing school,
and it wasn't even in our brand-new textbooks. Everything we learned
about AIDS was from handouts. And at the time it wasn't clear how
AIDS was
In my research, I also read that bats aren't any more likely to be a
rabies vector than other animals and probably less likely - can't
remmember why less likely. I had always heard they were frequent
rabies vectors but they said that is a myth. Of course this was from
a site specifically
What animals are listed as being most susceptible to rabies/carrying
rabies? What I've read in the past is that cats, skunks, bats, foxes
and raccoons are the most susceptible carriers. I'm sure there are
others, but those are the ones that I remember.
Okay, here's a bit from a page in
Okay, here's a bit from a page in Missouri: it says that some animals
are more susceptible to rabies than others, and they are in order from
most to less (in the top 5)--foxes, skunks,
Yep - here we aren't allowed to rehab foxes or skunks because of the
rabiles issue. Skunks around the barn
We have always had bats in the upstairs of our barn and sometimes in the
atic of the house.
I got plans and my husband built a lovely bat house several years ago. They
have never used it - the little brats.
Nancy
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