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July 21, 2007
Couple Forced to Share Condo With Flock of Bats
Posted by Dave Blount at July 21, 2007 11:29 AM
In a world run by moonbats, who takes precedence, humans or bats? The answer to this very easy question can be found in ultra-liberal Vancouver, where a couple's $509,000 condo is infested with about 80 bats living in its walls.
Removing the bats is forbidden. Anyone caught molesting them during their May-to-August breeding season is subject to a $345 per animal fine.
Inevitably, the bats have found their way into the apartment. The couple even found a bat in their bed.
Bats are the primary reservoir for rabies in British Columbia. Rabies causes acute encephalitis and is almost always fatal. The unhappy homeowners are in the midst of four rounds of rabies shots.
They've cleaned buckets of bat feces from inside the walls, and report being kept up all night by the nocturnal animals' endless squealing.
But the important thing, according public health veterinarian Brian Radke, is that
the young are being properly cared for and that we're maintaining the bond [between baby bats and momma bats]. It would be traumatizing to have them captured and relocated somewhere else.
It might also be traumatizing to have your home taken over by noisy, filthy, potentially lethal-disease–ridden flying creepy-crawlies. But of course, human concerns are no longer considered relevant.
On a tip from Jimbo.
