What to do if a Bat is in Your Home
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Last night I was sitting in my living room and discovered a bat on my curtains. It was his chosen place of hibernation. It was a strange situation for me since I had never dealt with a bat in my home before. Here’s how to get rid of one though if this should happen to you.
1. Close all doors to all rooms. You don’t want the bat to get into any other rooms. It may fly in and then you could lose track of it.
2. Open all doors and/or windows that you can to the outside. Bats have a good sense of air currents and can sense where to go to get back outside. Chances are that it doesn’t like being in your house and will jump at the chance to fly out without any help from you.
3. If the bat is stubborn and likes sitting inside your home, it’s time to force it out. I recommend grabbing a basket and a tennis racket. Some people have used pots and pans or boxes. Really you just need anything to trap it. You can use the racket or object like it to dislodge the bat from wherever it is and then force it into the basket or box. Cover the basket or box with the racket. Run outside and let it go.
If the bat is sick or seems to be dying. You may want to attempt to just kill the bat and put it out of its misery. In my case, I just whacked it with the tennis racket. 
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leftystrat
September 16th, 2008
at 10:14pm
Take it outside and hit some balls.
(right through somebody’s window)
Never mind.
They tend to pop up at the strangest times. After eight work hours of hell, I had a headache and the voices were loud and insistent. Rather than obey, I figured I’d try resting for a bit.
My head had barely begun to sink into the pillow when the cat came BLASTING up the steps, hot on the trail of a bird.
I noticed this and turned my head around. OF COURSE there was a bird in the house. He didn’t have the decency to wait til the headache went away.
To top it all off, my wife was mad because I didn’t leap out of bed and deal with the errant fauna. The cat’s much better at this than I am anyway.
Good luck with your bats.