Bat in the House

I've always wanted a bat in the house. My wife had one shortly before we started dating.

I had to catch a sparrow a couple years ago. I had been asleep and I guess Mrs. Life was doing some housework downstairs and left a door open. Definitely took a while to catch, with lots of screaming from all parties, but eventually it took refuge behind a toilet where I was able to catch it with my bare hands. It was pecking like crazy but my wife opened the doors for me and I was able to let it fly off into the night.

I had never held a bird before that - or any wild creature at all for that matter - and it was a strange feeling.

Once years before that I had helped a girlfriend capture a rat in her room. We had been after that thing for over an hour when it scurried inside a pair of jeans she had hanging over a chair, which we then scooped up tidily and shook him out a few blocks away.

The possums are frisky right now, we saw a few gambolling across the roof of the former accounts across the street last night.

One of my favourite night walks homeward is across exhibition gardens to see the bats and possums and listen to the bay vs possum fights in the trees.

Vivid childhood memory of a swallow getting into the house through the chimney and leaving many dark sooty impact marks on the ceiling and walls before finding its way out.

For awhile in Gainesville i lived in kind of a little standalone servant's quarters behind a big house and a possum used to live inside my walls. Listening to it claw its way sloooooowly and loouuuudly up the wall and across the ceiling made me feel pity for it; I hope its life outside my house was more fluid.

My childhood friend has a famous story about his caveman dad dealing with a bat in the house by reaching out, catching it in his bare hand, and crushing it to death :(

so old i can't not immed think "he's half bat, half soul brother"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3po2ER3jxnI

i still say 'batty batty batty!' at least 2x/year

Aimless: There you are! Oh, you think darkness is your ally. But you merely adopted the dark; I was born in it, moulded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but BLINDING!
[the bat hops up and flies towards him]
Aimless: The shadows betray you, because they belong to me!
[he steps aside into the largest room of the house and the bat flies into the room, circling near the ceiling.]
Aimless: I will show you where I have made my home while preparing to bring justice.
[he walks, crouching over, to the front door, opening it and the screen door, and the bat flies to the front door and perches on the upper edge of it.]
Aimless: Ah, yes... I was wondering what would break first...your spirit, or your body?
[he gently closes the door within a few inches of the door frame, then taps the door up near its perch. The bat flies out.]

when i was a kid a bat got in the house, was flying around the house in the middle of the night. my mom is squeamish and was screaming, my dad managed to hit it out of the front door with a tennis racket?