My parents have bats in their airing cupboard

sarahandme

We don't or didn't intend to harm the bats. We just don't want them in mum and dads house thats all. Lets be frank, who would want bats in their house? Its not normal. And if your frightened of them,  your adrenaline takes over to get them gone so it doesn't upset the person whos affected. Thats all we are doing. No one once mentioned we are going around with a base ball bat killing them. 

sarahandme

HampshireH said:

This sounds like 9 pages of the OP winding people up

The bat conservation are excellent and would have responded by now if OP had called them as she should have done.

They have local people ready to drop everything (reasonably of course) to offer advice and assistance.

I had a family once who has bat urine weeping down their childs bedroom walls and the kids were being bitten (fleas from bats).

We moved then out whilst installing bat boxes on the estate in various places and the bat conservation were amazing!

Turned out another 4 or 5 houses had roosts too. So wasn't an easy exercise but it was done legallly and safely.

This OP doesnt sound like she has followed any guidance and is now turning to methods maliciously to harm them.

You must wind up easily then,  you want to be in mums shoes right now, shes virtually having kittens. But for the record, we rang both places, the council, and bat organisation. Council cant come out until 4th of July as I stated many posts ago. And I am still waiting for the bat company to reply to my email as I cant get through on the phone. Its a recorded message saying sorry we are not handling calls currently. I'm assuming due to the coronavirus they would be nervous going inside someone's property,  I don't know. 

Pollycat

sarahandme said:

We don't or didn't intend to harm the bats. We just don't want them in mum and dads house thats all. Lets be frank, who would want bats in their house? Its not normal. And if your frightened of them,  your adrenaline takes over to get them gone so it doesn't upset the person whos affected. Thats all we are doing. No one once mentioned we are going around with a base ball bat killing them. 

But you have harmed them.

Even if you haven't taken a baseball bat to them, you have harmed them.

Mo matter how many times you go on about how scared your Mum is (but clearly not scared enough to pack a bag for a couple of weeks and move out) it doesn't change the fact that you have interfered with a protected species.

sarahandme

Pollycat said:

sarahandme said:

We don't or didn't intend to harm the bats. We just don't want them in mum and dads house thats all. Lets be frank, who would want bats in their house? Its not normal. And if your frightened of them,  your adrenaline takes over to get them gone so it doesn't upset the person whos affected. Thats all we are doing. No one once mentioned we are going around with a base ball bat killing them. 

But you have harmed them.

Even if you haven't taken a baseball bat to them, you have harmed them.

Mo matter how many times you go on about how scared your Mum is (but clearly not scared enough to pack a bag for a couple of weeks and move out) it doesn't change the fact that you have interfered with a protected species.

So can I ask what would you have done? We asked her but she don't want to move out, she wants the bats gone is her response. 

happyandcontented

Is she aware that you could be prosecuted?

Pollycat

sarahandme said:

So can I ask what would you have done? We asked her but she don't want to move out, she wants the bats gone is her response. 

My Mother is not bloody minded.

We would have had a reasonable conversation about the pros and cons of her staying and - even if it meant some inconvenience with sleeping arrangements - she would have agreed that the only sensible approach would be for her to move temporarily.

And Dad would have come too.

Before even having that conversation, I would have Googled and would therefore be fully aware of protection of bats (I was somewhat aware because of the Coronation Street storyline).

I would have explained that it simply wasn't possible to move the bats.

I would have explained that it was against the law to try to make the bats go away by various means.

She would have understood.

She would have packed a bag and be ready to go.

She would have understood that it's not as simple as her wanting 'the bats gone'.

FTR, my Mum is 88.

happyandcontented said:

Is she aware that you could be prosecuted?

I would - if necessary - have used this reasoning on my own Mum, although I think she would have had enough sense to understand what I was saying anyway so it probably wouldn't have been necessary.

So - sarahandme - that's what I would have done.

Mum would be sat on my sofa with a cup of tea safe in the knowledge that she can use the bathroom with fear of bats and safe in the knowledge that neither I nor my husband hadn't endangered a protected species and weren't likely to get into trouble for our actions.

It's really not that hard when you think about it.

HampshireH

Pollycat said:

HampshireH said:

The bat conservation are excellent and would have responded by now if OP had called them as she should have done.

They have local people ready to drop everything (reasonably of course) to offer advice and assistance.

Where's Roy Cropper when you need him?

I had to google 

sarahandme

Pollycat said:

sarahandme said:

So can I ask what would you have done? We asked her but she don't want to move out, she wants the bats gone is her response. 

My Mother is not bloody minded.

We would have had a reasonable conversation about the pros and cons of her staying and - even if it meant some inconvenience with sleeping arrangements - she would have agreed that the only sensible approach would be for her to move temporarily.

And Dad would have come too.

Before even having that conversation, I would have Googled and would therefore be fully aware of protection of bats (I was somewhat aware because of the Coronation Street storyline).

I would have explained that it simply wasn't possible to move the bats.

I would have explained that it was against the law to try to make the bats go away by various means.

She would have understood.

She would have packed a bag and be ready to go.

She would have understood that it's not as simple as her wanting 'the bats gone'.

FTR, my Mum is 88.

happyandcontented said:

Is she aware that you could be prosecuted?

I would - if necessary - have used this reasoning on my own Mum, although I think she would have had enough sense to understand what I was saying anyway so it probably wouldn't have been necessary.

So - sarahandme - that's what I would have done.

Mum would be sat on my sofa with a cup of tea safe in the knowledge that she can use the bathroom with fear of bats and safe in the knowledge that neither I nor my husband hadn't endangered a protected species and weren't likely to get into trouble for our actions.

It's really not that hard when you think about it.

Mums not bloody minded, she just didnt want bats in her home, simple as that. 

sarahandme

happyandcontented said:

Is she aware that you could be prosecuted?

She wasn't no. But now she knows that shes even more worried up herself. 

Pollycat

sarahandme said:

Pollycat said:

sarahandme said:

So can I ask what would you have done? We asked her but she don't want to move out, she wants the bats gone is her response. 

My Mother is not bloody minded.

We would have had a reasonable conversation about the pros and cons of her staying and - even if it meant some inconvenience with sleeping arrangements - she would have agreed that the only sensible approach would be for her to move temporarily.

And Dad would have come too.

Before even having that conversation, I would have Googled and would therefore be fully aware of protection of bats (I was somewhat aware because of the Coronation Street storyline).

I would have explained that it simply wasn't possible to move the bats.

I would have explained that it was against the law to try to make the bats go away by various means.

She would have understood.

She would have packed a bag and be ready to go.

She would have understood that it's not as simple as her wanting 'the bats gone'.

FTR, my Mum is 88.

happyandcontented said:

Is she aware that you could be prosecuted?

I would - if necessary - have used this reasoning on my own Mum, although I think she would have had enough sense to understand what I was saying anyway so it probably wouldn't have been necessary.

So - sarahandme - that's what I would have done.

Mum would be sat on my sofa with a cup of tea safe in the knowledge that she can use the bathroom with fear of bats and safe in the knowledge that neither I nor my husband hadn't endangered a protected species and weren't likely to get into trouble for our actions.

It's really not that hard when you think about it.

Mums not bloody minded, she just didnt want bats in her home, simple as that. 

I didn't say your Mum was bloody minded.

I said my Mum wasn't bloody minded.

My Mum would want the bats gone too.

Anyone would want bats in their house gone.

You asked what I would have done.

I've explained what I would have done.

I've also explained what my Mum would have done too.

Our actions would have been very different to those of you, your husband and your Mum.

Your Mum is making things difficult for herself.And probably making things difficult for her husband too.

She's made things difficult for you and your husband.

You and your husband have made things difficult for yourselves by your actions.

You should all be worried.