whoa

[jwaneeta]

Sonuvabitch. I was just watching Animal Planet and they had a sequence about bats: bats never attack people, bats eat bad insects, etc. All of which I agree with. I like bats.

For some reason, bats like me, too. Since I've lived here, in my rental and my house, I've called animal rescue several times to get a bat out and taken to the bat cave at the zoo. The bats here are very cute, btw -- they look like little pug dogs with wings.

Anyway, when my cat Harry got sick, me and the vets went nearly crazy trying to figure out the origin of his illness, cryptococcus. Harry was an indoor cat, see, and his exposure was a maddening question mark. I told the vets about the day I found a little bat head and part of a wing, but they didn't think it was related at all.

But on AP just now they mentioned that even non vampiric bats carry dangerous fungal infections, and mentioned cryptococcus.

Oh, Harry. You brought down a flying bat, and the bat killed you in turn. My poor crazy boy.

I miss you.

Comments

[rahirah]

Cat hubris. :headshake:

[spankingfemme.livejournal.com]

:( Aw! I'm sorry to hear that your cat got killed from cyptococcus :/ I'd never even heard of that until now

D'awww

[jazzypom.livejournal.com]

You know what cats are like.

I like your icons. Nice.

[pandanoai.livejournal.com]

:( kitty *snuggles you*

bats! bats... i worked at a zoo for three years... oh bats >.>

also- when i was in Australia they have bats called flying foxes-- they're HUGE and hang from the trees in groups of over 100 at the park i went to in Sydney. it was super crazy--

*hugs*

[keswindhover.livejournal.com]

I have made a mental note never to eat a bat, no matter how tempting and fluttery it is.

RIP Harry.