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Dave Miller
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Posted: Wed May 14th, 2008 01:34 am |
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I ran across this website today and had to laugh at these "common bat problems":
Bats in the attic of house
Unwanted Bats on property
Bats causing damage to yard
Threat of disease spread by Bat
Bats endangering pets or stealing food
Bat infestation at commercial property
This was obviously a cut & paste from one of their other pages (e.g. racoons) but it made me laugh.
I suppose if you had some pet that ate mealworms or something, this might be a concern. But I don't know of any pet that eats moths, beetles, or mosquitoes.
Their cut and paste folly continues:
Some of the best bat wildlife catching probably is very close to home. However, anyone interested in wildlife catching an urban special season should prepare well in advance. Many are limited to archers, and some require passing what appears to be a proficiency test.
Bat hunting? With a bow? Yes you would have to pass a proficiency test for sure!
Florida probably is one of the best states for harvesting what appears to be a Boone and Crockett male animal. Essentially Florida has been practicing quality bat management for years. what appears to be a heavy female animal harvest combined with the outstanding genetics of our bat results in big male animals with huge racks.
Let's see a picture!
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Gran
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Posted: Wed May 14th, 2008 01:47 am |
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Thanks those were funny
Sad part was that they weren't meant to be
Last edited on Wed May 14th, 2008 01:54 am by Gran
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IowaNate
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Posted: Wed May 14th, 2008 03:18 am |
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I called one of the numbers and left a message asking if thier website was serious. It was by far one of the most ignorant (yet funny to me) websites I have seen. The problem is that some people might buy into this misinformation. Our cause seems to take one step forward then two steps back with the crap that some media provides.
A bat rabies "scare" happened here in Iowa a few years ago when a few people were suppossedly "bitten" by bats. The media grabbed ahold of the stories and went crazy saying that people need to be innoculated for rabies if they suspected bats living in thier home or came in contact with one. Ironically, not one of the bats were caught and tested for rabies in the suspected cases. Thanks to our fellow bat conservationists that came to the media within weeks of the postings and gave the true info about bats, the hype soon died.
I will do my best to see that the afore-mentioned website gets shut down or edited, becuase some people might actually take the false information as fact.
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BatMan
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Posted: Thu May 15th, 2008 08:43 pm |
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| It looks like their just plain lazy, it basically says the same thing for each animal.
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Joe Spencer
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Posted: Thu May 15th, 2008 08:55 pm |
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| OMG!
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