When we came back from our National Day lunch today, an unwelcomed visitor at the window gave everyone the creeps.
Haru who has super bionic audition (despite being in a deep sleep), was the first to notice the bat on the mozzie net in the living room window. I am always in awe of Haru’s audition (sense of hearing) and olfaction (sense of smell). No matter how best I try not to make any sound when I open the pot of soup (boiled with chicken or pork) in the kitchen, she can still hear it in her sleep even though she’s sleeping in the living room. Though she’s enjoying her siesta, the sound of the pot opening and the aroma of pork or chicken wafting in the air will surely wake her up and this busy-body and forever-hungry pussy will quietly cat-walk into the kitchen to see what I’m eating. If it’s something that excites her palate, she will give me a tap on my leg as if to ask for food.
OK, coming back to the bat.
I think it was a baby bat judging from the size. It clawed on to our mozzie net and would squeak like a rat whenever we tried to move it. We climbed on top of a chair to have a better look at the bat and it gave me the jitters looking at this creature up close and personal.
A couple of hours went by and the bat was still clinging on to our mozzie net. No one dared to push it away coz Cass reminded us that Covid may have originated from a bat. When the Covid pandemic first swept through the world, scientists believed that the virus was likely to have its ancestral origins in a bat species.
When Maria came, we asked her to help us release the bat. Maria grew up in a kampung in the rural areas of Indonesia and she awed us several times when she used her bare hands to catch lizards and roaches 😱.
I gave Maria a long stick and when she tried to push the bat away from the mozzie net, the bat squeaked, opened up its wide wings and flapped them, EEEEWWWWW!! Several gentle pushes later, the bat flew away and Haru tried to catch it 😹
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