Donna Mullen

Oh, no, it's amazing.

And, you know, we're just lucky to have these.

No, no, you wouldn't want that.

No, no, no.

They're terrific.

They're very defenseless little things, you know, and they only have one baby a year, every two years.

So that's really the problem.

They're slow to reproduce.

So if you were to block them out of the house, you could be wiping out 30 years worth of bats.

out of your house do you know if you're to do anything like that because like they're so they're very very slow to reproduce and you know the numbers are coming down all the time there's lots of people now have bats in the houses in the summer because the females are breeding Well if one flies actually into the house though into the living room what's the protocol what should you do?

No, usually that happens kind of the first two weeks of August is the main time that happens and it's the babies learning to fly.

And you'll see the mums flying along and the little babies wobbling after them.

They have to learn how to fly, how to use their ultrasound, how to feed all on the one night and they make mistakes and they crash into the house or they, you know, cats can get them or they go fly into the house.

So if they do fly into the house, just you can pick them up very gently.

They often hide in the folds of the curtains or will crawl into a shoe.

They like to tuck into something.

So if you, you know, like when you were a kid, if you ever caught a bumblebee, you know, like a kind of a, you know, a glass bowl over the top and a piece of paper underneath it and slide the slide paper and then you'll have your bat.

Now, bats aren't very good at taking off from the ground.

So if you can, put them on an upstairs windowsill.

And then they'll drop to fly off.