but hopefully she's careful. They are cute.

are not a joy...

no idea how it got in unless it was in the attic and found a hole into the living room. It freaked us out mightily. It flew across the living room and my wife was screaming and probably scaring it even worse than it already was. I put on the Ov-Glove (super thick glove for taking things out of the oven) and waited for him to settle and then grabbed him as gently as I could. (it has individual fingers which made it easier to control than a standard mitt)

He was a tiny thing but I could feel him trying to bite me through the glove. He was putting up a helluvva fight but the glove was too thick for him to get through. Took him outside and opened my hand and he flew away so I hope he remembers I was cool and didn't fetch a tennis racket. He's welcome to hang out and eat all the mosquitoes he can find around my house.

I couldn't get any to stay in my bat house, though.

you can contract it from saliva on their fur. In some of these shots she is not wearing gloves. I hope she's had rabies shots, unless that's not an issue in England. It definitely is here in the U.S.

Australia, too. From Google: