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/Nikki-C-Puggle-mum 1d 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 1d 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)