Rescuing a bat attacked by a dog; this is Twofer

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  • Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
  • It was around midnight and there was a call fairly locally, for a bat attacked by a dog, so I hauled my butt out of bed, got dressed and went to collect the bat who would need euthanasia because the MOPs said one of the shoulders was broken or dislocated.
    I don't like dog attack rescues because the bats are usually quite mangled, so it was an emergency.
    He was an easy rescue - just go and pick him up out of a crevice; predictably he was a tad upset by the entire proceedings, and swore at me. I was handling him very gently in case he was in excruciating pain, and I could see a bit of white bone sticking out from his leg, in amongst all the flapping and wriggling and general screaming crankiness and fear.
    I get him home and check him out in the garage because he was screaming so much I didn't need to disturb the neighbours. I just needed to see if he needed immediate euthanasia, in which case I'd contact one of the specialist emergency hospitals and beg and plead them to see my batty and trust me to hold the bat and keep them safe during the euthanasia.
    I couldn't see any shoulder injuries and he was doing flappies and bigwingsing me in between casting aspersions on my parenthood and legitimacy.
    In wrangling him I found that his broken leg was a bird feather quill and not a bit of dead bone sticking out, and that there was no visible shoulder injury, so I brought him upstairs with a warning that he needed to be very quiet otherwise people would know he was in my apartment.
    I got him upstairs, give him some analgesia and let him settle while I had a shower, then came back to give him fluids and see what was going on with him. He wasn't particularly cooperative but at least he wasn't yelling and screaming, which helped.
    Then I found out 2 critical things, but you'll have to wait and see what and why it was important; why I called him Twofer and what happened thereafter, but trust me it's happy.
    This bat is a survivor. Enjoy the video in the order of my experiencing the rescue.

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