Bat Update.
It turns out that if you buy a $509,000 condo in Vancouver infested with bats you can’t have them removed during the summer. According to this article in the Vancouver Sun bats are protected under the BC wildlife act and can’t be disturbed during their breeding season. Between May and August anyone caught capturing bats will face fines of up to $345 per animal.
..it was finding a baby bat in their bed that has the couple worried that they may have contracted rabies. Bats are the No. 1 carrier of the disease in B.C. Rabies is passed through saliva, usually through bites or open cuts.The young couple have gone through the first of four rounds of rabies shots, which are injected into the legs and buttocks. Their dog, Soweto, has also received a booster shot.
Nurse said the suspected bat entry points from the walls into the condo have been temporarily sealed off and he has cleaned buckets of bat feces from inside the third-floor penthouse walls.
The bats, which keep him up at night, are noisy, regularly emitting “high-pitched squeals.”
It’s not just a condo, its an adventure!
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July 18th, 2007 at 9:50 am
that sucks.
July 18th, 2007 at 10:18 am
July 18th, 2007 at 10:21 am
July 18th, 2007 at 10:39 am
Bats win a court action and take possession of the property!
July 18th, 2007 at 10:41 am
Your very own batcave for only half a million! Formerly an experience reserved only for billionaire playboys, now you too can enjoy the edgy Gothamesque experience of living with creatures of the night.
July 18th, 2007 at 10:59 am
July 18th, 2007 at 11:04 am
The sales pitch would go something along the lines:
“Don’t worry about the expense-think of the tax deduction; negative cash flow is part of a formidable financial plan”
July 18th, 2007 at 11:11 am
You’ve probably mistaken them for birds. if you’ve ever been down near a beach or in a park around dusk you’ve almost certainly seen them - they fly a bit like drunken sparrows when they hunt. It took someone to point out to me that they were actually bats before I noticed them, but they’re all over - its not hard to spot them if you’re looking.
July 18th, 2007 at 11:20 am
Good luck! Hate to be them … shoulda woulda checked! Bozos!
July 18th, 2007 at 11:33 am
July 18th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
July 18th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
July 18th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
July 19th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
Suppose there’s 50 of them. That makes a 17 250$ fine. That’s 3.45% of the condo price.
And btw, bat fece is carcinogen. Any house infested with bats shouldn’t be occupied until it has been cleaned thoroughly.
July 19th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
July 20th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
This is another example of uninformed media hype - much ado about NOTHING!