Confession Time

[Bobbisox1]

I've never seen a Bat ...or a Rat

[pastafreak]

I've seen both.
Bats are much nicer...like little dogs with wings.

[elliemay1]

Aren't you the lucky one!

[Bobbisox1]

I suppose I am elliemay1

[elliemay1]

Yes, they're not a pretty sight!

[Smowball]

Don’t think I have either tbh lol

[pixie374]

I have... and my sister keeps snakes, tarantulas (shudder), bearded dragons etc.
I've never seen a live badger.

[Buenchico]

They're both beautiful, Bobbi!

These are pet rats but the wild ones are just as gorgeous!

[Captain2]

Bats are lovely things to watch; I go down to the river at dusk in summer and they're flying around everywhere - can watch for ages.

[jourdain2]

I find that hard to believe Bobbi, I really do. Not only have I seen both (in France I, very regularly, used to drive carefully in the evening through flights of bats and they took up home in my unused bread oven - the babies look like bunches of furry grey grapes) but rats are a heck of a nuisance here and have cost us a lot of money in poison. One came out to die on the lawn the other month - the dog goes nuts trying to dig them out and kill them. He is a good ratter if he can reach them. Do you live in a flat?

I don't disbelieve you, you are always honest and open, but I really am 'gobsmacked' is, I think, the word. :)

[Buenchico]

The most common bats in the UK are pipistrelles:

[pixie374]

I had a tiny baby bat here on the patio once. It was squealing madly and then rhe next day, hung upside down on my house, only about 3 inches up. It died shortly after :-(

[Bobbisox1]

I don't even think I've seen them Captain :0/ unless I've thought they were swallows?

[Bobbisox1]

Arh jourdain, could be my fear of birdies ?

[Buenchico]

Swallows usually fly very high. If you encounter a 'swallow' flying at not much more than head height (particularly at dusk), it's almost certainly a bat!

[Bobbisox1]

But they look quite evil Chris:0/

[Captain2]

They fly so swiftly and erratically (catching prey on the wing) that you don't get to see their maniacal eyes, Bobbi. ;0)))

[maggiebee]

My son had a pet rat called Gibby. Lovely animal but I wouldn't handle him. Have seen bats but not up close and personal.

[pastafreak]

I don't think they look evil at all.
I had a baby bat caught in my curtains when we lived near open fields. And one in the shower at my ex in laws in Scotland. Cat brought it in.

[Bobbisox1]

Thank God for that Cappie :0))))

[Zacs-Master]

You should see the bats in Mauritius!!! They’re the size of a cat and hundreds of them emerge at dusk.