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Devine Lu Linvega

I wonder if we could install a bat house on the mast, we already have spiders to get us rid of tiny flies, but having a couple of permanent bat residents would be nice.

19 June at 15:40 | Open on merveilles.town
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elektron

@neauoire bats not sure you'd find the guano they generate as nice...

19 June at 15:43 | Open on halo.nu
cancel

@neauoire bats cannot be intentionally housed or kept as pets in USA (and probably Canada?) because of rabies

19 June at 15:54 | Open on merveilles.town
Devine Lu Linvega

@cancel I think in Canada it might be allowed? I grew up with a bat house in the backyard, maybe it wasn't allowed

19 June at 15:55 | Open on merveilles.town
cancel

@neauoire that would sketch me out since in the lower 48 states in USA the % of bats with rabies varies by species but it's around 5%-10%

19 June at 15:55 | Open on merveilles.town
Bryan Haskin

@neauoire @cancel you can have bat houses in the US. You just can't have them as pets. So it's like a bird house.

19 June at 16:01 | Open on social.bitsofsimplicity.com
florian

@neauoire @cancel you’re totally allowed to put bat houses on your property in the US. There are organizations that will try to get them to you for free or cheap to help support the population.

I think attaching a bat house to a vehicle and moving them around is where it stops being considered humane or legal since you are at that point transporting wildlife. Bringing them through customs would definitely get you snarled up in bureaucratic issues with both Canada and the US.

19 June at 16:04 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org
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