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An orphaned, short-tailed fruit bat - 12/13/2011 7:16:25 AM

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Awww, even baby bats are adorable!

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RE: An orphaned, short-tailed fruit bat - 12/13/2011 7:34:57 AM

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Tiny critter. Cute.

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RE: An orphaned, short-tailed fruit bat - 12/13/2011 9:07:51 AM

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Kill it! Kill it NOW!

Stupid fuckin' bats.

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RE: An orphaned, short-tailed fruit bat - 12/13/2011 1:14:35 PM

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Kill it! Kill it NOW!

Stupid fuckin' bats.

BAT SPLAT!

There, done. Ya happy now?!

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RE: An orphaned, short-tailed fruit bat - 12/13/2011 2:21:51 PM

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The music put me to sleep.

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RE: An orphaned, short-tailed fruit bat - 12/13/2011 3:54:36 PM

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Thank you, that was so beautiful ! ( hormonal fae is all weepy-eyed )

That little fuzzy cutey and his caretaker reminded me of all the time either my family or myself have had to care for newborn kittens that showed up on the doorstep.

i'm really not a fan of Wal-Mart, but i have been very grateful that the store does carry canned cat-milk (dog-milk, too), even out in the middle of nowhere.

The foam-nipple from the video is something i will employ should i ever again have to be a surrogant momma to newbies. It looks like it might be easier for the babies over the traditional teeny tiny bottle/rubber nipple combo.

Little Drac's caretaker also ran a warm q-tip or cloth over his tummy. You have to do that to newborn kittens because the warmth stimulates them to go to the bathroom, until they are big enough to do it by themselves.

Yet again, much thanks to Duskypearls.

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RE: An orphaned, short-tailed fruit bat - 12/13/2011 3:55:19 PM

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Beautiful!! I thought the music was perfect.

For those who feel the need to eliminate bats from the world, please read this: http://www.batcon.org/index.php/all-about-bats/intro-to-bats/subcategory/18.html
If you still hate bats, may you be inundated with mosquitoes.

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RE: An orphaned, short-tailed fruit bat - 12/13/2011 4:00:31 PM

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Kill it! Kill it NOW!

Stupid fuckin' bats.

BAT SPLAT!

There, done. Ya happy now?!

No.

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RE: An orphaned, short-tailed fruit bat - 12/13/2011 11:27:46 PM

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If you still hate bats, may you be inundated with mosquitoes.

I will be kinder than you.

May you NEVER have to take a toddler in for a rabies series because of a bat bite or deal with the after-trauma.

Bats do not belong in the house. Any bats in the house deserve death.

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RE: An orphaned, short-tailed fruit bat - 12/14/2011 6:11:19 PM

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ORIGINAL: Duskypearls

Awww, even baby bats are adorable!

http://wimp.com/fruitbat/

Thank you :)

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RE: An orphaned, short-tailed fruit bat - 12/14/2011 6:59:24 PM

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Awww, even baby bats are adorable!

http://wimp.com/fruitbat/

Thank you :)

Anytime, my friend.

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RE: An orphaned, short-tailed fruit bat - 12/14/2011 8:08:28 PM

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ORIGINAL: Duskypearls

Awww, even baby bats are adorable!

http://wimp.com/fruitbat/

Thank you :)

Anytime, my friend.

That was just slightly over the edge of beyond wonderful :)

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RE: An orphaned, short-tailed fruit bat - 12/14/2011 8:28:15 PM

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ORIGINAL: LookieNoNookie

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ORIGINAL: Duskypearls

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ORIGINAL: Duskypearls

Awww, even baby bats are adorable!

http://wimp.com/fruitbat/

Thank you :)

Anytime, my friend.

That was just slightly over the edge of beyond wonderful :)

How delightful you enjoyed it so much. May I ask why? Have you a particular penchant for the little creepy critters?

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RE: An orphaned, short-tailed fruit bat - 12/14/2011 8:55:51 PM

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ORIGINAL: LookieNoNookie

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ORIGINAL: Duskypearls

Awww, even baby bats are adorable!

http://wimp.com/fruitbat/

Thank you :)

Anytime, my friend.

That was just slightly over the edge of beyond wonderful :)

How delightful you enjoyed it so much. May I ask why? Have you a particular penchant for the little creepy critters?

Anything small that needs me to put food out for....I'm a big fan of.

(Unless of course, it's a really incredibly small divorce lawyer who hasn't eaten in a few days).

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RE: An orphaned, short-tailed fruit bat - 12/15/2011 6:49:56 PM

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May you NEVER have to take a toddler in for a rabies series because of a bat bite or deal with the after-trauma.

Bats do not belong in the house. Any bats in the house deserve death.

I'm really sorry if you had to go through that experience, it must have been awful.

I'm not dismissing the importance of Rabies. I deal with the threat every day of my life. I have personally sent over 30 people for post-exposure Rabies prophylaxis. All of them were exposed to rabid CATS (some of them young kittens). But Rabies is NOT all about bats; far from it.

According to the CDC, in 2010 bats accounted for only 23.2% of rabies cases nationwide. Raccoons and skunks together accounted for 60%, domestic animals (cats, dogs, cattle, etc) for 8%.

In my state of Pennsylvania, the tally of confirmed cases of Rabies from Jan through Nov of this year was as follows:
Raccoons 229
Skunks 51
Domestic cats 44
Foxes 42
Bats 33
Domestic cattle 5
Domestic dogs 3
Domestic goats 2
Other wildlife 11

It has been estimated that the value of the North American bat population to agriculture may be as much as 53 BILLION dollars each year, thanks to their voracious appetite for insects that attack the plants that become our food, fuel, clothing, etc. It has been assessed that a single colony of 150 brown bats in the US Midwest consumes 1.3 million pest insects per year. Extrapolate that out to the entire country and you can get a sense of the service that these animals unwittingly perform for us humans. Before you write off any animal as being unworthy of life, find out more about how much your welfare depends upon theirs.

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RE: An orphaned, short-tailed fruit bat - 12/15/2011 10:10:38 PM

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ORIGINAL: LookieNoNookie

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ORIGINAL: Duskypearls

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ORIGINAL: LookieNoNookie

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ORIGINAL: Duskypearls

Awww, even baby bats are adorable!

http://wimp.com/fruitbat/

Thank you :)

Anytime, my friend.

That was just slightly over the edge of beyond wonderful :)

How delightful you enjoyed it so much. May I ask why? Have you a particular penchant for the little creepy critters?

Anything small that needs me to put food out for....I'm a big fan of.

(Unless of course, it's a really incredibly small divorce lawyer who hasn't eaten in a few days).