I'm a licensed wildlife rehabber (it allows me to legally posses bats for a time for research) I take in the sick injured mostly orphaned raise & heal them and release them to kill another 1-2 milllion bugs a year. I'm currently working on a skunk bat it's actually a big brown very common in your attic including europe. I think he was probably taking a drink at someones pool and got dosed with some chorine shock. but it would be good for a new bat species I already have the candidates foxglove was on disneys chip and dale 's rescue ranges probably best drawn toon bat not a mouse with wings under it's armpits.

here is a partial medical record of Jerry skunk bat shows the data and graphs I collect on them just page down.

http://fewerr.org/PDF/Medical_Record_Bat_Skunk.pdf

here is a book I'm working on. I have a 1/2 in hole in my leg finally healed after 6 months from a brown recluse fiddle back spider nasty buggers had to use 10 cyanide gas bombs to nuke the house to get rid of them. the cover has a brown recluse in the bats claw.

http://www.fewerr.org/PDF/bookfly1.pdf

oh ps in the US it is estimated one half of one percent of bats have rabies  skunks and raccoons are the highest here. you have a better chance of getting rabies from your dog then a bat. but I still hve all my shots since I deal with 100's of them a year. havent' had a rapid bat yet. some rehabbers work with 1000's and have never had one.

 

 

 

If you talk to the Animals, they will talk with you. And you will know each other. If you do not talk to them, you will not know them. And what you do not know you will fear, What one fears One destroys." Chief Dan George-Tsleil-Waututh Nation Next time your scared by a bat remember 8 million have died from White Nose Syndrome 1 bat=5 lbs bugs/year=1-2 million mosquitoes/year 1 small bat house = 250-700 bats you do the math. West Nile Virus infected 5287 people killed 243 last year is your home protected? http://fewerr.org/Pictures/WNV_Bat_Mosquito_yellow%202.pdf

http://www.fewerr.org/PDF/bookfly1.pdf