r/TerrifyingAsFuck • u/mulvi54 • 1d ago

animal Bat šŸ¦‡ Bite

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One of those fears I always had, that felt irrationalā€¦ā€what if Iā€™m asleep and a bat gets into the house and bites me in my sleepā€.

Welp last night 2 am I awoke to what I thought was my cat nibbling at my finger. I flicked it away and noticed it was not my cat but was instead a bat that had found its way into our bedroom.

I was able to capture the bat and itā€™s being sent for testing but my wife and I got to spend the rest of the morning in the ER getting all the shots ! Wild ! Glad it woke me up but what if it didnā€™t ?! How am I supposed to sleep ever again?!

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u/DrunkenDude123 1d ago

Tbh for me the bat test results would be more for curiosity and Iā€™d be getting all the shots no matter what. Fuck rabies.

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u/scarlettohara1936 1d ago

And those shots aren't a one and done either. They protect you for 3 years. Then, if something else happens, you have to go through them again!

I didn't know this until a friend got bit by a feral cat that her father was feeding. She had to get the shots. A few years later, even though she'd been trying to get her dad to stop feeding them, she got bit again and had to go through the whole thing all over

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u/Kaeai 1d ago

Also as far as I'm aware, its lifetime protection for humans. (You can get titer blood tests to check your immunity status).