Just swell. I sleep in a little cubby bed (kind of like Harry Potter....under the stairs). It's really pretty and my puppies sleep with me. It's to keep me from being able to run or wander if I have a seizure. There's a gate to open to get out but I have to be lucid to open it.
Two nights ago, I awoke to a commotion. It took me several minutes to get up and figure out what was going on. Turns out that a little bat must have flown in the door that was propped open earlier and had hidden until I went to sleep. He wanted to really get a rise out of everyone, I'm guessing. Well, the puppies were having a tizzy as they are not used to a small bat nuzzling up to them at night. I adopt some strange critters but not one has been a bat. The poor little guy probably thought he'd found his siblings (my Chihuahuas) as the puppies were warm and cuddly. I stayed remarkably calm and caught him with my pillowcase and maneuvered over to the door with my walker, a startled little creature and several yapping dogs and released him happily into the night. I did check for any friends but found none.
You sneeze or drop a book, I have a seizure. I wake up with a bat nuzzled in my bed, I just do what needs to be done. He seemed healthy and very pleased to be released. I'm kind of glad that I was woken up by him as if I'd woken up in the morning, I probably would have looked up at the underside of the stairs and wondered just who put the bat there, upside down. In my life, one never knows.
No one was bitten plus the puppies all have their rabies shots. I want bats as they eat the mosquitos. Now, if someone wants to be super impressed with my calm demeanor, look up the Pine Sawyer Beetle (3 inches long) on Google Images. Please do, just to humor me. Yep, had one of those buddies cuddle up last week. I was none too pleased as they are not cuddly and I vacated the bed as speedily as humanly possible. It took me a minute or so to convince him to let go of my duvet. Living in the country is not for ninnies.
I'd threaten to sue my husband for the beetle but he just said, "Oooh, cool."