Maybe better not to know....... in former times (real former) they used to burn them (I do not now if this method is used in Mauritius but in some Asian...
10 minutes ago I received a bat which was hanging on a "glue - ring" on a tree. Its a little bit injured so I gave him some Baytril but is there a possibility...
Until someone with more experience can answer, I've heard mentioned warm canola oil, Goo-Gone, Art Wash (but this you have to have on hand, it has to be...
I've had several microbats caught on glue traps and small birds and lizards caught on various types of glue or paint hazards. I now keep a bottle of a product...
I know you’re busy with your injured bat, but I did want to welcome you to the list. Where are you writing from? It’s always nice to hear from other parts...
I write from Austria - took over a bat rehabilitation station 5 months ago and it is still a battle above it. This station had to be moved from a family who...
Hi Gabrielle, I'm in North West England so we have a lot of the same species that you have. I use olive oil on bats caught on glue traps, and it works very...
Yes, welcome to the group, Gabriele! If your little Brandt’s bat survives, he could live a very long and productive life; the current world longevity record...
Tracey David King and Sheila had one at their stand at National Bat Conference last weekend. I don't know how many signatures they got but there seemed to be a...
I see that Bat World is offering a condensed version of Boot Camp at the IWRC symposium - what a wonderful opportunity for rehabilitators! From the Executive...
Hello All. I have an MFT male, 5 years old. He has recently been through quite a bit. He was making white - really white - poops for a while. I managed to...
Is there any way you can monitor his activity level as compared to chunkier friends? I had a fellow who was constantly ravenous but didn't gain weight like...
Dawn--have you tried probiotics? Live yogurt cultures seem to do the trick (plain, not something loaded with fruit sugars) or one of the probiotic powders sold...
If it were a cat or dog (or human!) I would be certain it was a hyperthyroid condition - ravenous appetite but no weight gain. Not sure how much blood would be...
As a former Graves disease patient, that has crossed my mind. I have a hyperthyroid cat, too. I don’t know how much blood it would take to do a thyroid test...
a lurker learner here. I am wondering why you cut his food volume off if he can handle it? ... -- Barbara Troje Nizhoni ALpacas Kanab, UT soon to be Las Vegas...
For those of you who do exclusions or deal with nuisance wildlife calls the other program mentioned in that email - the Wild Neighbors by HSUS is GREAT!!! I...
Hello All, Night before last, at 10:45 p.m. I get a phone call from a very excited sister. She was screaming, and carrying on. The phone call consisted of...
Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I am sorry I didn't reply sooner. I had a dog emergency which kept me off the computer all day yesterday. And, since I...
Ooops - I forgot to address this one. Sorry Leslie. He was getting some bene-bac after a bout with amoxicillin. However, there was some thought that the...
I have never been happy with bene-bac. I think the human grade stuff is just higher quality and studies of various probiotic formulas have shown that yogurt...
I have had good results with probiotics and infant M. evotis, who are difficult to raise when brought in as newborns; their immune system seems to crash at...
The reason yogurt is used with almost all species is because it is no longer a lactose product when it is yogurt. Lactose intolerent people can eat it. Birds...
Hey that's good enough for me! Thanks. I had mealworm substrate go bad and half the colony started vomiting. Since vomiting is so very unusual and to have bats...
Now that would have been great on Halloween night for a bat visit in your house. LOL I enjoyed that, Kat. Sounds like the real world indeed. Anybody else have...
Come see life from a different angle! On Saturday October 28th from 12:30-3:30 we are having a bat festival at my work. We will be having crafts for the kids,...
Rescued a dead bat this evening, a Mexican Long-tongued bat. She seemed like she was in good condition (except for the fact that she was DEAD!!!), good weight,...
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