8 minutes ago, Smells like fish said:

I had bats figured to need cool temps. That has to be hot as hades on them up there?

Hotter the better for bats. They literally disappear from any house or building once it gets cold in November or December. Them and groundhogs are the only truly hibernating mammals in TN 

 

squirrels won’t go into a hot attic but we will start getting some calls about them in late September when all the hickory starts dropping 

You’d had to been there to appreciate it but one late Oct or early Nov midday I made my way to a saddle on a ridge to bowhunt, long walk in. Suns out making the midday warm, I have on a polyester ghillie suit. I take my forearm to move the limbs of a small beech tree outta my way and all heck breaks loose. 
 

I immediately hear this loud screeching sound and stop moving thru the tree limbs and start looking around me. As I scan around my feet for whatever this loud screeching is from SOMETHING touch’s my hand. I look and there’s a bat that must been hanging in the beech limbs possibly sunning? 
 

it’s making the loud screeches, it’s teeth are chewing and it’s spread over like 10/12” of my forearm ?

 

I instantly think rabies and go crazy I sling the bat every which way but his claws are hung in my ghillie. He goes even crazier so I start spinning like a bull during a ride. I sling my bow and my back pack off and get the ghillie top off and run ?

 

I finally go chk my ghillie with a stick but the lil bat is gone. I then see him flying around before dark and have to wonder who was the most shook up ?

19 minutes ago, Smells like fish said:

You’d had to been there to appreciate it but one late Oct or early Nov midday I made my way to a saddle on a ridge to bowhunt, long walk in. Suns out making the midday warm, I have on a polyester ghillie suit. I take my forearm to move the limbs of a small beech tree outta my way and all heck breaks loose. 
 

I immediately hear this loud screeching sound and stop moving thru the tree limbs and start looking around me. As I scan around my feet for whatever this loud screeching is from SOMETHING touch’s my hand. I look and there’s a bat that must been hanging in the beech limbs possibly sunning? 
 

it’s making the loud screeches, it’s teeth are chewing and it’s spread over like 10/12” of my forearm ?

 

I instantly think rabies and go crazy I sling the bat every which way but his claws are hung in my ghillie. He goes even crazier so I start spinning like a bull during a ride. I sling my bow and my back pack off and get the ghillie top off and run ?

 

I finally go chk my ghillie with a stick but the lil bat is gone. I then see him flying around before dark and have to wonder who was the most shook up ?

Haha! Yikes. The health department would’ve recommended you get your post exposure rabies shots. Lucky for you they only cost like $20,000

I’m having flashbacks. That will send me spinning again ?

52 minutes ago, Smells like fish said:

I’m having flashbacks. That will send me spinning again ?

I remember the first time I saw that , I wigged out pretty bad and slung the bat down into a customers shower hahaha. (I had just plucked it off the shower curtain ). 
 

got a skunk and a groundhog so far today 

Another bat job. At least the louvered vents are quicker than the slotted vents, we can just use one whole piece of wire here 

This is after we screwed 1/4 wire mesh onto the outside, the aim is to make it blend in. 

I’m on fire this morning.  That sewer rat went 2.49 lbs on my rapala scale 

 

Is that a pb on the rat? ? A whistle pig to round out the afternoon would be nice…

Here’s my pb but I didn’t get to weigh him before I threw him back

2 minutes ago, Smells like fish said:

Is that a pb on the rat? ? A whistle pig to round out the afternoon would be nice…

I don’t think it was a PB but it was sure a big nasty rat. 
 

Update: still on fire. But I don’t have any whistle pig traps set haha

 

3 coons in 2 cages 

 

Dang what a kickoff to the weekend!! If you can get 2 bats with a tennis racket you will be winning ???

2 minutes ago, Smells like fish said:

Dang what a kickoff to the weekend!! If you can get 2 bats with a tennis racket you will be winning ???

Haha! We just leave them a way out with no way back in. The less touching of bats the better 

Sure it may say bug, but I’m ready for bats…

3 minutes ago, Smells like fish said:

Sure it may say bug, but I’m ready for bats…

Looks like you already denoggonized that one on top of the tackle box 

51 minutes ago, Smells like fish said:

Dang what a kickoff to the weekend!! If you can get 2 bats with a tennis racket you will be winning ???

I just so happen to be at the shop and our office lady doesn’t work on Fridays. The phone rang and let’s just say I don’t have the super polite telephone  manners like she does. It was one of our very good longtime customers that said he was trying to catch a raccoon in his own trap and accidentally caught a skunk. I told him he needs to check his traps before Friday afternoon next time, he got a kick out of that. Lucky for him I zipped right over there and got it

“Lucky for him I zipped right over there and got it”

 

You’re a good man. I think I’d rather deal with a bear than a skunk. 

3 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

I just so happen to be at the shop and our office lady doesn’t work on Fridays. The phone rang and let’s just say I don’t have the super polite telephone  manners like she does. It was one of our very good longtime customers that said he was trying to catch a raccoon in his own trap and accidentally caught a skunk. I told him he needs to check his traps before Friday afternoon next time, he got a kick out of that. Lucky for him I zipped right over there and got it

Is that skunk juice on the top of the trap?

12 minutes ago, HaydenS said:

Is that skunk juice on the top of the trap?

That is not our trap so I’m not sure but I think there was just a handle with a rope tied to it for some reason. It was pretty Jank

 

It kind of looks like he poured a can of beanie weenies on there 

Yeah I used to trap stuff a lot unit I go sprayed by a skunk?the oil landed right by my mouth?

27 minutes ago, Micaiah Freels said:

Yeah I used to trap stuff a lot unit I go sprayed by a skunk?the oil landed right by my mouth?

I’m not sure how but I think you did it wrong 

Just now, TnRiver46 said:

I’m not sure how but I think you did it wrong 

Yeah?so I had a blanket and I was walking up to the trap and the blanket was covering my face and I didn't see the skunk's tail raise up and you probably know the rest?

On 8/27/2021 at 6:08 PM, Micaiah Freels said:

Yeah?so I had a blanket and I was walking up to the trap and the blanket was covering my face and I didn't see the skunk's tail raise up and you probably know the rest?

Hhahahahahhahhhahahah. So far that hasn’t happened to me but I have seen one or two spray. There was a lab involved each time…….

 

if they start stomping their front feet I back up and try again 15 minutes later 

14 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Hhahahahahhahhhahahah. So far that hasn’t happened to me but I have seen one or two spray. There was a lab involved each time…….

 

if they start stomping their front feet I back up and try again 15 minutes later 

Thanks that will help

54 minutes ago, Micaiah Freels said:

Thanks that will help

Also do everything as slowly as possible, no sudden movements