I found a hairless baby Bat..

[Kymberli]

Thanks. I am thinking the same thing. I posted here before looking around. I found a really cool article/blog about a baby big brown bat. http://www.art-rageous.net/BabyBat-062305.html I have decided that is what I found, since it looks identical to the pictures. Surprisingly bats only have 1 baby a year and they can live for 20 years! I put it in a shallow box with a sock of rice heated to keep it warm and I gave it some multi-animal formula I got at tractor supply to give to my nursing rats.

I am going to put him back outside up high in hopes that his mother comes to claim him, and my dog doesn't eat him. If he is still there in the morning I will contact the local sanctuary.

I have come to the conclusion I live in what some people would find scarier than a haunted house. Snake, Rats, Bats, spiders, Rottweilers... oh my. lol

Thanks for the help.

Hopefully he'll survive the night and you can find a sanctuary for him to be taken to. It's heartbreaking, no doubt, but you can't save them all. It's that cliche "circle of life", lol. I'm not sure how bats do it, but I know mother birds often push sick/weak babies out of the nest because the mother instinctively knows that one will not survive anyway. Perhaps bats do something similar and the mother of this one was not willing to care for it? Who knows.

Good luck!