GoodStuff

We had a bat in our sleeping area earlier this week, and though we caught it we let it go. More fool us, because as a result of not being able to test the animal we all had to get rabies shots, including my three week old

If you ever have a bat in your bedroom-don't let it go. The shots are just awful, and the disease so much worse.

Mom2JDS

Did someone get bitten? It doesn't seem like there would be enough risk there to have to have shots if nobody was bitten by the bat?

OliviaT

I was wondering the same thing myself. If no one was bitten why did you have to get the shots. That is pretty scary if you ask me! There are bats here all the time, you see them swooping in the air in the evening.

superwhat

Maybe the just did it because there is a baby in the house. I once looked up the statistics of deaths caused by bat rabies bites and more people die from getting rabies from cows then they do bats. We had a bat in our house a few months ago and we didn't go get shots.

Georgiamom

I was thinking the same thing that if no one got bitten no one would need shots. Poor little one I have heard rabies shots make you very sore like tetanus shots do.

GoodStuff

The logic is that when everyone is asleep there is no way of knowing whether you got bitten or not. Bat teeth are so sharp and fine that you may get fairly painlessly bitten and not be left with a mark, and so they want you to have the shots because the disease is fatal.