El Sequero

Bats

Chispas, that's our official cat, has discovered the pleasure of hunting for bats. Unfortunately for the bats, she is quite good at catching them, she's not so go at keeping them, but I suppose that's half the fun.

I'm not keen on the idea of her killing the bats, despite what our local vet said about them. They are small mostly inoffensive, mostly because they will insist on rousting in between the window and the shutters and they have this rather unfriendly habit of defecating all over the windowsill. Anyway the point of this blog is the document the fact that as a result of her night time batting adventures I decided to vaccinate her against rabies.

Bats are a well known source of rabies and the last thing I want is to have a deranged cat try to claw out my eyes while I'm asleep.

The last reported rabies outbreak in Spain was in 1977, however the last reported infections of rabies have all been provoked by bats, the last one in 2002

http://www.iberianature.com/material/bats_spain.html#rabies_bats


so to be on the safe side she has been jabbed. you know what they say

Once bitten twice shy...