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  • 26-07-2008 10:39pm
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    barnicles
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    who should i contact to get em removed
    i am in cork north west


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    SuperSean11
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    Where are they? House?


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    IrishHomer
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    barnicles wrote: »
    who should i contact to get em removed
    i am in cork north west

    Why do you want them moved?


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    monty_python
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    http://www.rentokil.ie/


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    IrishHomer
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    monty_python wrote: »
    http://www.rentokil.ie/

    Actually if you do a search on this site you will see:

    Bats are protected under the 1976 Wildlife Act. In June 1993 Ireland signed the European Bats Agreement which aims to promote greater protection for bats by protecting key sites and habitats.


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    IrishHomer
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    Also see below:

    http://www.npws.ie/en/WildlifePlanningtheLaw/Licences/Disturbanceofbatsortheirbreedingplaces/


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    Sigma Force
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    http://www.corkcountybatgroup.ie/page/contact-us


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    kerrysgold
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    Bats are protected, you can't "remove" them. If they are in your house you'll just have to put up with it.


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    monty_python
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    kerrysgold wrote: »
    Bats are protected, you can't "remove" them. If they are in your house you'll just have to put up with it.

    That seems very unfair. When there droppings build they could become a health hazard. If rats became endangered would we have to put up with them in our homes? Maybe you could block the entrance they use when the leave at night?


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    ztoical
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    monty_python wrote: »
    When there droppings build they could become a health hazard.

    or you could collect the guano and sell it as a fertiliser. The sale of bat dung from a single cave in America fetched $6,000,000.


    Irish bats are very clean animals, they regularly groom and seek out clean places in which to live and they carry no known diseases. They do not bring in nesting materials, rather they just crawl into crevices or hang from whatever is available. As they are not rodents, they have no front teeth so they do not gnaw wood or electric cables. They only have one baby a year so its not like you'll find yourself infested with millions of them. Their use of houses is seasonal, rather like swallows; they usually arrive in April and leave in September or October so you can wait till the leave and block up what ever hole they've used to gain access. Be aware that all bats and their roosts are protected by law and a licence is needed to disturb them in the wild.


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    Weidii
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    Wow, I'd love to have bats in my house! I'd be out all night watching them :p


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    Alun
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    Weidii wrote: »
    Wow, I'd love to have bats in my house! I'd be out all night watching them :p
    Me too, I'd feel honoured to have them living in my house, just like the swallows some others in here seem to want to get rid of as well. I don't get it.

    OP, try and find out a bit more about them from one of the links mentioned above. You might even learn to love them too :)


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