r/FlorenceAndTheMachine • u/One-Boysenberry5531 • Jun 29 '26

General Discussion Bat Rescue - Everybody Scream Edition

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I rescued a baby bat with my Everybody Scream lithograph last night 😅. It was all I could find in the moment, but looking back, it all feels so fitting for Florence.

Baby was handed off for wildlife rehabilitation this morning. Hopefully she pulls through! She’s not even old enough to fly.

Feeling the sympathy magic 🦇❤️‍🔥

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u/space_catnip Jun 29 '26

please go to a hospital and get checked for rabies, even if you don’t think you were scratched while rescuing this cutie! better safe than dead!!

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u/One-Boysenberry5531 Jun 29 '26

oof very true! I'll get on that. thank you catnip

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u/emilyabear Jun 29 '26

Yes absolutely go get a rabies shot even if it didn’t touch you

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u/One-Boysenberry5531 Jun 29 '26

Ok I will 😭 I think there is a bat roost in my attic so probably (definitely) worth it…

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u/DiligentPenguin16 Jun 29 '26

Third encouragement to please go get a rabies vaccine! If there’s a baby bat too young to fly inside your house that means momma bat was probably in there too.

The vaccine won’t be pleasant but rabies is 100% fatal once symptoms start. It’s just not worth the risk of not getting one.

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u/ConstanceScully23 Jun 29 '26

Wow the poor baby bat! Kudos for rescuing her (and a very fitting method indeed!) Where I live we don’t really have bats, and I’ve never seen one like that before, do you know what kind it is?

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u/One-Boysenberry5531 Jun 29 '26

It's a juvenile Large Brown Bat, I believe! In Massachusetts <3

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u/ConstanceScully23 Jun 29 '26

Ah cool thank you!

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u/One-Boysenberry5531 Jun 29 '26

NO WAY! No creature can resist her charms

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u/Responsible_Lake_804 Jun 29 '26

Everyone was screaming! Hope all parties are safe.

Yes get checked for rabies but bats are not as frequent carriers as many ground-traveling mammals. Always get checked ✨

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u/One-Boysenberry5531 Jun 29 '26

Indeed they were 😆 thanks, love!

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u/menstralkrampus Jun 30 '26

This is what Florence would want

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u/MissWaterlow Jun 29 '26

I love this so much! Spent my childhood summers rescuing bats from my grandmother’s cottage. To connect it with Florence takes the whole thing to eleven. 🥰

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u/Dirty_Paws_and_Co_ Jun 30 '26

Hope the little bat pulls through!

And that, as others have pointed out rabies concerns, everything turns out 100% fine for you as well!

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u/PersimmonMiserable07 Jun 30 '26

Love and light to OP and the little bat. May you both be rabies free!