What rhymes with “cat” and hisses like a cat when you approach it, but isn’t a cat?
You’ve got it. It’s a rabid bat.
Granted, most rabid bats don’t hiss at you; most stumble around like they’re drunk. But this one hissed.
Los Angeles County’s fourteenth rabid bat of the season turned up this month in front of somebody’s garage in Newhall. According to county health officials, it hissed when it was approached.
It was the sixth rabid bat to be identified so far this year in the Santa Clarita Valley, and with six of the county’s 14 rabid bats (43 percent), the SCV continues to be the county leader in rabies – as it has been the last four years, when incidents of rabies infection started a dramatic climb.
Health officials can’t explain the uptick, but recent years have seen more than 40 infected bats annually across the county. There always used to be only 8 to 10 a year, at least since they started tracking such things in the early 1960s.
Bats are the most common carriers of rabies, but most bats are disease-free. Fewer than 1 percent are infected.
Remember, if you see a bat flying around during the daytime, or bothering the family pet, or staggering around on the ground like a drunkard, or dead – don’t touch it.
In fact, what the heck. If a bat appears to be perfectly healthy, don’t touch it.
Instead call Animal Control at257-3191 and let them touch it. Let your tax dollars work for you.
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50 Comments
Nasty!!!
Poor thing! Interesting ears!
CHUPACABRA
Lol
Lol
F n funny bat cat .
Ashley Cornell, check this out.
they are not cute no mo
Poor little thing.
Hmmmm….Batty Patty
Did someone photoshop the bat head on top of a cat body??? I am not buying this.
You’re joking, right? Lol!
No seriously lol!! Look at the body it is the body of a cat not a bat … Bats have webbed wings ???
Did someone photoshop the bat head on top of a cat body??? I am not buying this.
You’re joking, right? Lol!
No seriously lol!! Look at the body it is the body of a cat not a bat … Bats have webbed wings ???
Obviously….
Lol!! :-)
LOL PhotoShop
LOL PhotoShop
That’s what my cat, Chauncey, looks like at feeding time
That’s what my cat, Chauncey, looks like at feeding time
Dude. If you named your cat because of wondershowzen. You might be one of my best friends
Dude. If you named your cat because of wondershowzen. You might be one of my best friends
Lol were watching Cujo!
Lol were watching Cujo!
Looks like a kitten with a bat head on it?
Looks like a kitten with a bat head on it?
Crazy Potato!
Crazy Potato!
Photoshopped
Lol!!
I don’t think so.lol.
Lorena Garay Gianella Garay
The picture is a spoof but the story is real.
Love the cat body on a couch with a scary as hell bat head.
Dimitri Maxwell
This page can be surprisingly funny at times.
A photoshopped image is not something “news” informers should be using. Just stupid. You know now that gullible people out there will be seriously confused.
A photoshopped image is not something “news” informers should be using. Just stupid. You know now that gullible people out there will be seriously confused.
Oh no….someone is hissed-off. Ha….
Angela McColl Bodenhafer see its real!!!!! Haha those bats were crazy the other night, dive bombing us!!! They were rabid!!!!!!!! Our bats were not hissing though!!!
That’s Hilarious! Ours thank god did not have big fluffy cat bodies either! Can you imagine that dive bombing us?!? Lmao
I have noticed a lot more bats than usual in general in the SCV, SFV & AGOURA HILLS. Look up people stay clear.
This is irresponsible journalism. For one thing, that’s not a bat indigenous to this area. For another it’s a bat head (badly) photoshopped onto a cat body. If I want the National Enquirer I’ll go to the grocery store.
This is irresponsible journalism. For one thing, that’s not a bat indigenous to this area. For another it’s a bat head (badly) photoshopped onto a cat body. If I want the National Enquirer I’ll go to the grocery store.
Stupid sensationalism.
Gnarly little dude !
creppy