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Oh, good Lord! That is quite an misadventure! I'm so sorry your day started out like that. I hope it got better. I don't know what I'd do locked inside with a bat. It is a Halloween nightmare but maybe you could work it into a child's story that's not so frightening. Yikes! 
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on September 7, 2023 at 8:02 PM
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I feel for you. Years ago I was very pregnant with Son number one. We lived in a huge old brownstone out of Town and a bat found its way into the house. it was flying up and down the long wide passageway...there I was lying on my huge belly screaming because I was terrified the creature would get its claws caught and entangled in my hair. Husband opened the doors at the end of the passage way and it flew out. Then we had to get me up off the floor. praying your bat has flown out through that open window space.
posted by
Kabu
on September 7, 2023 at 12:05 PM
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Good afternoon
That's just crazy! I can envision you sitting there with your two brooms and a spoon. Having an exterminator handy should help out with your bat woes. No worries though, bats are just as afraid of us as we are of them. 
posted by
Sherri_G
on September 7, 2023 at 11:01 AM
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Handy it is to have an exterminator grandson...I can't imagine what it's like to have a bat in one's house.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on September 7, 2023 at 10:03 AM
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If you have drapes, look them over front and back. Bats prefer to hang upside down and that is often where they are found. If you find him, scoot him into a plastic container and take him outside and let him go. Bat's keep down our unwanted insect population by eating them.
posted by
TAPS.
on September 7, 2023 at 8:03 AM
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Once caught a bat in my house. It landed on the floor, I tipped a
small wastebasket over it, slid a flat piece of cardboard underneath, trapping the bat up inside. Carefully turned it over, and released the bat outdoors. I was a bit afraid of the teeth and claws, but both the bat and I went back to our normal. I can easily understand why you're on high alert. I hope you are able to send it back to its own habitat without injury to either of you.
posted by
Pat_B
on September 7, 2023 at 7:51 AM
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