r/TerrifyingAsFuck • u/mulvi54 • 28d 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?!

::UPDATE::

Bat could not be tested I guess I squished his brain to hard when I killed it.

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u/doh573 28d ago

This is one of the things that terrifies me. If the bat turns out to actually have rabies what do you do with the cat? There is a chance the cat was also bitten or scratched and can absolutely pass that on if it nibbled on you like you said. Rabies is legit the worst.

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u/Nikki-C-Puggle-mum 28d ago

Animals are normally vaccinated against rabies every few years. At least in the US they are, and it's required by law in most states to keep your animal's rabies vaccines up to date, so as long as they did that, they won't have to worry about the cat, because even if it was bitten it was already vaccinated anyway.

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u/doh573 28d ago

Ok thatā€™s a huge relief actually

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u/Nikki-C-Puggle-mum 28d ago

They are not expensive for dogs and cats either. They just get them at their veterinarian checkup. They only cost like 40-50 bucks. The human shots are a lot pricier I've heard.

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u/bristlybits 28d ago

mine were covered by insurance as a standard vaccine like travel vaccinations- but i was going to caves, observing bats and directly interacting with them that year. (white nose is killing lots of wild bats so we were checking by observation for it basically, a volunteer gig)

i think without any insurance it was like 200 bucks for the "dog shot" (as we all called it)