When animals attack … Californian Bat in a Christmas tree edition
From the Star Tribune …
A woman draping her tree with lights was bitten Sunday by a bat that had been nesting in the tree.
Sheila Kearns thought she had been scratched by pine needles, but discovered the bat on her wall the next day
the bat was probably hungry and exhausted from evading her cat all night.
“We encourage the bats because they get rid of the bugs, but we don’t put them in the trees,”
Animal services took the bat, which tested negative for rabies, but Kearns was given a tetanus shot as a precaution