Hilarious

There are some good ones at times.

Reddit is good for entertainment but not much else.

Only 21 years and only the 2nd person to die of rabies in BC since records were started in 1924, the last case in 2003.


https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...FhVAW8odn4p9BM

I just saw that on the news and was surprised; how does BC remain rabies-free when practically everything with teeth here can get it? Skunks, raccoons, coyotes, muskrats, dogs, cats, and I assume bats can all carry it here.

I was surprised to see in the article that bats are the only known carrier in BC, I would have thought skunks and raccoons would be carriers as well.

More on the man who died from rabies.

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/man-who-died-o...says-1.4510614

Swatted a bat away in May on Vancouver Island.

Maybe best to sleep with the windows closed, no screens and wouldn't be hard for a bat to get in and bite/scratch while sleeping.

Maybe it was just trying to be friendly.

That bat is cute.......

Bit like yourself. Use it as an avatar.

Anyway. Let's have a Charlee pic in the Lounge Puppy Dog thread. Might encourage others to share. Might make me sort a pic of Dusty cat out too.

I was reading yesterday about a sleeping child that was bitten by a bat during the night in the UK. The mum said it must have flown in through the window. It was tested and was negative for rabies.

I had a friend a few years ago, well many years to be accurate, who lives in a rural town on a small holding, he woke up one very early morning and thought a moth had flown in through the window, so he switched on his light, and quickly switched it off again thinking that's a bloody big moth, it was in fact a bat, his first though was how to get rid of it, and being a farmers son he thought of using his 12 bore, but then thought it might make a bit of a mess, so he eventually used a sheet to guide the bat back through the open window, then quickly shut it.

How did they catch it?

I found a bat scrunched backwards into a corner in the bar one morning, after a big horrific heavy metal show. I scooped him up in the dustpan and took him outside. He seemed to have an injured wing, but I couldn't be sure if it was real or an act, so I just put him under a tree behind the building and a half hour later he was gone. No idea if the music had any effect on his echo-location powers or not, but he'd probably never been subjected to anything like it. There is a picture somewhere, but not on this computer.

Apollo 11 in real time:
Last night on the news I saw a bit about the man who made this webpage; he took 2 years assembling and collating everything that happened including taped audio from the different mission control consoles and every scrap of film, every photo. You can just click on NOW and observe what was happening in this moment, 50 years ago.
https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/