It seemed she knew mag was there to help her. I hope she made it. Here in Canada the fisheries have banned barbs on hooks for this very reason. Cut the barbs off before using them. This is what happens to wildlife
What a calm little bat, she stayed so still. Not once did she make a sound. She was even letting Meg open her mouth with her fingers. She patiently let Meg work the barb out in her mouth without trying to bite.❤ Such a beautiful little soul. I hope she does ok!
I've never been so impressed with a bat, she knew, she stayed still, pointy bits not engaged. What a ghastly situation for her, anglers leaving tackle and line are a menace. Love the MOP's sting ray video. Wishing Hotlips all the best, such a brave battie. ❤
I know old fishing lines, and lures, and other bits and bobs get thrown in the water, but how in the world did a bat manage to get snagged and snagged so very badly? I held my breath the whole time you were operating. Poor Hotlips! What a perfect name, Meg!
I think I remember Meg saying that fishermen sometimes get their hooks caught up in branches as they're casting, and instead of retrieving them, they just cut the line and leave them in the tree. Batties can then fly into them and get caught up before they know what's happened..
Fisherman casts his lure and it gets caught in tree behind him on the backswing; bat flies into tree in dark and fishing lure is just dangling where she's flying, looking like a leaf, and she flies into it; first her face gets snagged then her wing when she flaps to try to get out of it. Voila, fisherman has inadvertently set up a trap for a bat later on when they're foraging at night.
At lease she doesn't have painful metal barbs weighing down her lips. She is a very brave girl and very pretty, too. Hotlips is the perfect name for her. Here's hoping she pulls through.
How in the world did she get a fish hook in her mouth? Was divine intervention, with the tree lim breaking and the woman seeing it. She is so well behaved and you are just amazing. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Given the multiple hook points I couldn't help wondering if someone accidentally threw and caught the bat, and then just cut the line and left the scene instead of dealing with it.
Fisherman casts his lure and it gets caught in tree behind him on the backswing; bat flies into tree in dark and fishing lure is just dangling where she's flying, looking like a leaf, and she flies into it; first her face gets snagged then her wing when she flaps to try to get out of it. Voila, fisherman has inadvertently set up a trap for a bat in the tree, for later in the night when the bats are foraging for food.
Oh no poor hotlips! That was a nasty wound I hope she recovers fully! I know that even beyond the infections they can kind of lose the battle to shock, so I hope the hook removal wasn't too traumatizing.
What a nice woman to call you on the behalf of Hotlips. I can't imagine what she would have done without your help Meg. Hotlips was in a dire situation. What good team work. I hope she heals well. 🦇🙏💗
She could see I was helping, and she had no fight left in her; she could have been in the tree for days before the branch came down and she was close enough to the ground for people to see.
@@RoxanneSharbono-mb8ol The flying-foxes are the ones with emotional and social intelligence; the microbats probably have teh same kind of social intelligence, however we can't see this or relate to it, because the micros don't work with visual signals but use other intelligences beyond what we can see or hear.
Meg, I would suggest having a magnet on hand to check for tiny metal bits in a non-invasive way, less stressful for both of you, you are a blessing for these animals!
Some stainless steels are magnetic, and others are not. I have a non magnetic stainless steel fridge. I know where the barbs went so I just check I've got all the bits
She was very cooperative. Reminds me of rescuing Bali who had a fish hook embedded in his balls; he let me cut it out without an anaesthetic as well. Search in teh YT search bar for Megabattie/Bali/embedded fish hook
I call it butchery; I don't use gloves (need the sensitivity of my fingertips), and I don't sterilise the area - it's all fairly superficial so it will heal with little issue and if does get a pocket of infection it should either pop, or maybe need a course of antibiotics if it is serious, but usually they heal well with no interference. But basically my surgery is crude but effective; she was the perfect patient and didn't move or fight me. If she had, I may have had to leave the hooks in place after cutting off the lure, and just let her chill, but its a Sunday and my vet options are down to ONLY one practice now; Adrian's moving overseas (how dare he?) and one of the other batty vets is having intensive chemo and retiring... No batty vets available, nowhere which will let a bat in the door, and no other options. I could have tried one of the vets at home and we could have perhaps used some alfaxan (anaesthetic), but that's a whole level more stress for the bat with transport and drugs and her body recovering from anaesthetic. I used to have about 4 places I could take my bats, and emergency places on a weekend, however it all depends on bat friendly vets and their availability, and as they move between practices, or go away or have families, it all devolves.
I peeked between my fingers at times during the operation. What intelligence is in her eyes. Your skill and patience is world class. Thank you for all you do for these darlings.
Meg, you and this bat are wonderful: you did everything patiently to rescue this poor girl and she' s an angel, she let you do all that it needs to rescue her, she deserves a second chance. Bats are so intelligent!! ❤❤❤
I think that, whilst in the tree, she had given up because she was trapped in a way that she couldn't free herself, neither could any other bat. So basically she was waiting to die; she had one last gasp of effort trying to escape me, but it wasn't particularly focussed. Then she was kidnapped by a furless giant, and her life devolved further. So by the time she got to my place she was confused and uncertain, then I started getting her out; and she decided to cooperate because the intent was clear.
Great work Meg! I’m impressed! Didn’t need the vet and camera was aimed perfectly so we can all see…..Poor Hotlips 👄 fingers crossed 🤞…..I loved the MOP coverage of the Stingray, they are so cool, don’t have them where I live but I’ve been to Monterey Bay Aquarium on the California Coast and they have them swimming in a low pool where you can sit & touch them as they swim by……
I like it that she noticed the stingray; it's good that the harbour is recovering and the water quality is improving enough to have stingrays flirting the shallows.
Thankyou so much for your big heart and caring for these beautiful little guys! I'm amazed by the way you handle them and treat them! I love your channel! Thankyou for sharing!!
There needs to be an arena watching this somewhere and the crowd erupting in cheers when the final hook was removed. Such patience... for both involved. Good show Meg!
Meg this absolutely upset me badly!😭😭 I hate those careless fishing humans so much!🤬 You are such an amazing lady Meg and precious Hot Lips is an Angel beyond belief!🩶🦇💕 I keep positive prayers for her survival.🙏🥺💓 Thank you so much Meg and to the lovely MOP as well!💕
I've done maybe 5 fishing line entanglements; Jiggzi survived, Bali didn't, Tarbi survived, and Yabbi who survived. And Hotlips. I have 4 fishing lures I kept because they represent human caused suffering. Yabbi didn't haver a lure, but had the fishing line wrapped around his wrist and was dangling from a tree 7 metres up and hanging over a river about 6 metres from the bank.
@@Megabattie Meg you really are the Bat's Angel Rescuer on this earth!🥺💕 I thank you from the bottom of my heart & soul for what you do. Hot Lips was so brave, bless her heart.🩶🦇🥺💕
Pobre Hotlips, qué manera de enredarse con el anzuelo. Yo supongo que habrá sido al intentar soltarse. Me parece que ella sabe que Usted la está ayudando. Me admira la calma de la murciélaga. Crucemos los dedos para que Hotlips se recupere de sus heridas y pueda ser liberada. Pase lo que pase, muchas gracias Meg por ayudarle.
OP's video of the Stingray was a nice surpise 😊 Poor Batty she must have been really struggling. The amount of pain she must have been in, and she was so good too, i think she knew you wanted to help. Good luck Hotlips, and thank you OP for finding her, and as always med, amazing work ❤❤
c'mon hot lips! pull through! that hook situation was really tricky- it took a lot of perseverance to remove all those barbs especially without any other help. sending you a virtual round of applause for that
Thanks; fiddly work. I could have called Maggie but she does aqua aerobics on Sunday mornings, and having 2 people's hands cluttering up the area isn't exactly helpful
bloody amazing! I was on the very edge of my seat! You ROCK so HARD! with jewlery snips ... necessity is the mother of invention! Harkens me back to when you opened the jar with the drill .. some words were said like ... A JAR WILL NOT BEAT ME!
I think I would have said that I would not allow myself to be defeated by a jar of garlic. I'm a fixer; I fixed it. The good thing about the jewellery side cutters is that it had a spring so it sprung back in between snips. I must look for a more heavy duty one which also has a spring, so it can be used one handed and easily. I had an art teacher at school who was a big influence on me (I still visit her regularly because she lives locally); she personally bought the jewellery snips and pliers for the art class because our school was selective but poorly funded, and she wanted us to have good tools. I'm not actually ashamed to say I stole them in the final year; the school was closing down forever in its current premises, and the new school was better funded; I told my art teacher on the last visit, that I stole them and she said - good to have them used. Cutting the hooks for Hotlips shattered the tip of these jewellery cutters, but they've had a good life with me and been well used for all sorts of things.
They’re more afraid of us. We were taught to drag our feet in the shallows- the stingray shuffle. They shoot off to avoid being stepped on. One of my Labs got hit twice, though (and my sister, once, because she was swimming, and stopped, and her feet touched the bottom, on a stingray).
That was a 'harrowing' procedure to get the hook points out; yet Meg you and Hotlips handled it with such grace. (I kept wishing you were only removing a stuffed animal 'fart'-box like that one time you and Maggie did such a hilarious mock operation). ++++Hoping Hotlips the Best !!
Jiggzi and Tarbi and Yabbi and Bali; Bali didn't survive but the other 3 did; Bali had a fracture in his shoulder and his elbow had dislocated and wasn't stable, so he was euthanased, but I cut the fishhook out of his balls and he let me, without anaesthetic. I cut Jiggzi's out at the vet, and Tarbi had an anaesthetic drug and we cut it out at another carer's place; and Yabbi didn't have a hook in him, just fishing line tangled around his wrist, from which he was dangling over a river about 6 metres out from the bank.
Great work on this little sweetheart! This makes me feel very vindicated for cleaning up lines and lures whenever I visit the water. We don't have megabats on Turtle Island*, but it is a problem for our birds of prey. There's a taxidermy exhibit in our local rangers' station of an osprey caught in line! Not even just birds of prey, either - there was a pair of Canada geese at one of our lakes, and the female had a lure wrapped around her foot. She almost let us get close enough to free her (the geese here at remote lakes who aren't overexposed to humans actually have lovely temperaments), but we weren't able to, so we called Fish and Game. That was years ago. Hope she ended up doing alright. She could swim around okay, but it looked very uncomfortable. *Indigenous name for North America in case you haven't heard it before!
Povera creatura 😢🦇 gli umani con le loro azioni crudeli o superficiali possono fare tanto del male agli animali 😤 Grazie per il vostro intervento, siete preziose. 🙏❤
SInce the video's title is in French and about "leurre de pêche" and knowing that in French the word "pêche" goes for both fishing and peach the fruit, I thought the fruit first. I understood it was about a fishing lure only by watching the video and it was a shock. Poort little bat! She's so cute. I can't imagine her chances of survival if she had struggled during the rescue/operation... Luckily she was so quiet and passive. I'm agnostic but I pray for her anyway. PS I saw the previous video about Molly and Buck? Not sure I remember their names well. I'm still crying when remembering this video. I discovered this channel a couple days/weeks ago, and Meg, I guess you were told this countless times before, but you're a truly wonderful person. Greetings from France.
LOL that's kind of funny. The previous video was Lizzie and Buck; Lizzie was dying from when I rescued her, her body just hadn't caught up with it, and Buck was flat and not grabby when I pulled him off his mum. Apparently quite a few viewers think I caused the death of both Lizzie and Buck by separating them; also apparently, everyone is a self appointed expert and has an opinion which is categorically correct which makes me wrong. I'm a bit over the keyboard warrior harassment at the moment; it's a bit much to have to deal with the actual deaths after rescue without having to deal with the people who always know better. I've done a few fishing lure rescues, but she was the most cooperative, with Bali coming a close second. He let me cut a fishhook out of his balls and wing; after trying to turn me into confetti at rescue he was amazingly docile when I cut it out; occasionally he lifted his head and licked his balls then lay back and let me keep going. th-cam.com/video/dWWUNtni31E/w-d-xo.html
@@Megabattie "I'm a bit over the keyboard warrior harassment at the moment; it's a bit much to have to deal with the actual deaths after rescue without having to deal with the people who always know better." I believe I couldn't understand you better. I hate this kind of people too. I'm in computers and electronics and nothing bothers me more than rookies in these domains I master the more giving me lessons about it instead of grabbing the chance to learn something (in truth maybe seeing a mumbat and her baby on their to way to die even when you made your best, could be a thing that bothers me more in the end ^^). It's kind of obvious you know what you're doing with bats and I'm very impressed and feel much respect when watching your videos. I saw other videos of yours where you separate a baby (or even twins) from his/her/their mother and in the end, thanks to you, to your care and love, they're all living and healthy! I couldn't allow myself to give you any lesson (except maybe about computers and electronics) if about bats. It's so obvious that you're the one knowing these animals and each time I watch one of your videos, I feel like 30 or 40 years ago when I was at school, in a time when studends were respectful toward teachers. I learn about bats with you. I already was someone who liked bats before, but now I watch your channel, I truly love them. To the point I cry when you fail to save one. I can't imagine how hard it must be for you. Don't give a f*ck to these auto-named specialists bothering you in the comments. I know, it's far easier to say it than to do it. Just remember, you have many more supporters to you and your cause. Ones who were educated to respect their elders. And I'm one of them (I'm 44, born in 1980). Just thank you for sharing what you do with us, you're wonderful Meg. RIP Lizzie and Buck. Poor little cuties. At least you passed near someone loving you. That's what I would wish when it'll my turn. PS I love when you're giving them glucose or something to drink. The way they're using their tongue to eat/drink is so adorable. Or when they eat fruit chunk, I can't get enough seeing this. ^^
LOL I barely take advice from myself let alone from someone with NFI who inflicts their advice on me, after the event, when they are totally ignorant of the subject and do sweet FA in the way of useful things in their life anyway. If you were my electronics/IT advisor I'd just say: I know nothing about this; will you be my consultant? Better still, just do it for me and don't filter it through my brain or ineptitude. I won't advise you on anything because I have NFI about it. I surround myself with people who have the knowledge of things which intersect with my needs, and just do it for me without me having to learn a new skill I might not use for 20 years (by then I'll be dead), by which time I'll have forgotten what I learned. I like having a coterie of "guys" who fix things, know things, and are enchanted by me and fall over themselves to help me. I also love guys who put air in my tyres for me; give me a cranky bat to wrangle any day rather than soiling my hands putting air in my tyres... In moments like these, I play either/both the blonde and the old lady card - whichever works best on the target guy. I am usually thick skinned, but yesterday I had to fend off a whole bunch of experts who all savaged me and blamed me for the deaths of Lizzie and Buck, because I took the baby off Lizzie and she died of "stress" and baby Buck died because I'd removed him from his mother. Oh, and I didn't take them to a vet who obviously would have saved them from my ineptitude; the vets phone ME if they get a bat into their practice and ask me what to do; if I go there it's for something they can do - like xrays, ultrasounds, blood tests, and a general: I don't know what else to do can you think of anything else I might have missed? The vets provide me with analgesia, and antibiotics; I have a fast track route to them by text and I send videos so they see what I'm talking about, and I come to them if I can't do anything more but think they might be able to. It's galling to be sliced and diced by the opinion of a vet who "knows" you have done everything wrong because they wouldn't have done it that way, and that the bat died, but this opinion is formed by a total lack of experience with flying-foxes but some experience with microbats... Yesterday I was feeling fragile and the criticism was really hurtful.
@@Megabattie To me Lizzie died from this shock to her head as you told us in the video, and her involuntary movements you, and every attentive viewer, noticed were nothing but a strong clue leading to this conclusion. (Sorry if I fail to tell exactly what I want in English, even if I have a good level in this language, I'm always learning, and sometimes I'm not sure if what I'm writing tell exactly what I want; remember, I'm French). And still, we haven't necessarily all the elements, she (and Buck) may have suffered something we aren't aware of. Every one of her spasms were like a knife strike in my heart, starting when you put this subtitle saying this is not good. Damn, I wasn't even aware, before, to the point of how I can love living (or having lived) beings. Watching your videos, this kind of video especially, is kind of new to me on YT/the Internet. It's a little like watching an emotional movie, except it's real, and if the bat die, she really passes away. And if she's saved, even more on the babies, it's so much joy! In both cases, I cry (Yes I'm the kind of man who cry, not always OC, but it happens fresuently when watching your videos! T_T ). I'll never understand these lesson givers "Look at me I'm THE specialist" people who are seemingly unable to see how YOU must be hurt when you fail to save one. They probably imagine you're making all this just for the glory, aand because you just bored maybe? And they'll never think you do it because you LOVE them, just simply by loving them. When it's so obvious to the eye (and ear) of people like myself or many others in all your videos' comment section. At the same time, I understand how criticism, especially when totally undeserved/irrelevant, can be painful. Hold on Meg, don't give up (I know you won't, never; I can feel it, and I'm not a first hour viewer on your channel), you have many supporters knowing how you're an example of how good human beings can be (once again, I hope my English is understandable enough). Never allow others, especially those thinking that the whole of mankind is evil, to let you doubt about how wonderful you are as a human being. Yes evil/bad people exists, but you're certainly not part of them.
What a darling MoP! She was lovely. I read Hotlips and immediately thought of Major Margaret Houlihan from MASH. I was thoroughly expecting a loud, Very Opinionated Lady. She was still very persistent, even knocked into bamboozledom. But, as with Major Houlihan, she seems to appreciate the importance of triage and on-the-fly surgeries. I'm just so confused as to how on earth a flying fox would come into contact with a gnarly lure like that. What on earth are the fisherfolk doing?? Unless someone was trying to teach themselves how to fly fish and was just too lazy or selfish to retrieve a lure that got stuck in a tree? 🤔 It's so weird. That poor girl.
Yes, THE famous Hotlips; I'm sure Ms Hotlips is a confident little miss, once she gets over her entanglement issues. Fishermen on the bay casting their lures and accidentally getting them stuck in the trees behind them, cutting their line and discarding the lure dangling in the tree behind them; bat flies into a feed tree (native fig tree) and doesn't see the dangling lure, gets snagged, twists and dangles then hangs there, face connected to her wing, unable to fly, unable to get the hook out, struggles struggles then gives up.
The poor lil sweetheart. Bats are smart, she knew she couldn't get out of her pickle by herself, so allowed you to help. Ok she reminded you a few times that one side of her mouth was free, but holy crap she was a good girl. I agree 100% on the fishing hooks being left wherever the fishers like. Wildlife shouldn't have to pay the price for a humans laziness! Will be keeping my paws crossed for her to survive. It's reminded me of another "de-hooking" vid from a few yrs back i think. The boy who had his nuts hooked, can't think of the name now, but he was also amazingly co-operative about the whole ordeal. Was cool to see the sting ray too! *edited to say his name was Bali. I went and looked lol
Yes, Bali; also Tarbi who was very hard to rescue, and Jiggzi who had her cheek and fanny connected by a lure and was dangling in the tree. Yabbi had fishing line wrapped around his wrist and was dangling over a river.
I think they get all fatalistic; she'd given up because there was no escape from her situation that she could effect. She tried to escape me because she didn't want her situation to get worse, but then I was helping her. Since she'd already given up, she let it play out because she could see that I was solving her problem for her. But being that docile isn't always good.
What a patient bat that let you remove all those barbs. What a lazy, irresponsible fisher person to leave hooks laying in nature! I was just gifted a part of a fir tree from Washington state. It was cut for burning in a wood stove....and it had a fishing hook and fly wedged into it! 😇❤️🖤🦇🖤❤️
No, it would have been hanging in the tree, a discarded lure after it was entangled in the tree behind whilst being cast; Hotlips would have flown into it and got snagged by face and upper wing near her face. The fishermen just cut off the line with the lure and attach a new one, discarding the lure because it's way up in the tree and unreachable and the hooks won't let them pull it down with the end of the line.
That's really, REALLY STUPID of the bloke to be so obdurately careless with his fishing gear! If he tangled up a child or dog with his lures, he'd throw a tantrum at THEM--even striking them--for mucking up his fishing! I have never seen such a brave and patient patient. The guy who did this, ought to be located and made to watch this, and reimburse you for your expenses.
So is shock the reason she’s so quiet & letting you get on with it? Or paralyzing fear? You’ve said shock can lead to death, but can bats overcome that?
Both; fear, myopathy, helplessness; she can't fix it herself and I'm not hurting her more than minimally, so she goes along with it. I think in the tree she had nearly given up and was waiting to die; though there was one last escape attempt to get away from another stressor in her life.
Dang, Meg, I wish you had some hard, long cylinder or a dowel to hold her mouth open. Something round like a pencil or magic marker but hard to keep open her mouth so you could work more independently with 2 hands. She is also very patient and docile. Did you give her an anesthetic to calm her?
@@mellie4174, Did you read the description? Meg puts a lot of detail in the descriptions. She mentioned that no bat friendly vets were available for anesthesia. The shot she gave Hot Lips at 8:02 was for pain (analgesia).
This makes me so angry. That is one appalling set of hooks. Fishermen/women should never abandon these lures. You have done an amazing job or removing all that metal work. A vicious piece of tackle, how it that even allowed? Good luck little girl, you’re in the best of hands.❤
She's very flat which is worrying; I hope she can pull through because we all need survivors at the moment, and I'm pretty sure she would choose to live if she could
By the fact that she didn’t bite you while you were working around her mouth, it looks like Hotlips instinctively knew you didn’t mean her any harm and you were trying to help her, and placed a ton of trust in you
What exactly she knew is not really knowable, however she could see I was taking away the hooks, and maybe she thought she'd be able to escape or I would let her go as soon as I get them out; cooperation was in her best interests.
How sad to see Hotlips suffer because fishers can't seem to clean up after themselves. If they can't be sure of getting a fallen lure back, they shouldn't be casting it in the first place.
She may be exhausted but she still took a few nips at you at first, and none towards the end. I think we can forgive you, Meg, for allowing yourself to think that bats can feel (shhh they totally can :) ). Such a sorry and desperate state to be stuck with your face wired to your wing... even if she was stuck there for longer, I'm still hoping she can pull through. Rest and heal little Hotlips, you're in good hands now.
I know she can feel pain and I know she's socially intelligent and has good eyesight, so I know she can read intent; she assessed me and knew that I was helping her, or at least I was providing her with a possible escape once I got her free enough for her to think she might find an opening for escape.
@@Megabattie I joke a little in regards to the description and other comments about anthropomorphizing them, though maybe my wording isn't great. I know they can feel, that we can't know what they're thinking but can probably assume they are motivated by food or self preservation, and that they don't think in the same way we do, but I also can't look at them, made of different amounts of the same stuff we are, and attribute to them any less than a different or simpler level of thought. Every animal is adapted and specialized differently, we got high level logic and abstract reasoning, they're incredibly smart and capable in the ways that are important to them. Despite the many unknowns, it's beautiful to see when some of that shows through in sensitive moments like this.
I've NEVER seen a patient this strong and quiet. Human or bat!
It seemed she knew mag was there to help her. I hope she made it. Here in Canada the fisheries have banned barbs on hooks for this very reason. Cut the barbs off before using them. This is what happens to wildlife
Check out the video of me rescuing Bali.
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What a calm little bat, she stayed so still. Not once did she make a sound. She was even letting Meg open her mouth with her fingers. She patiently let Meg work the barb out in her mouth without trying to bite.❤ Such a beautiful little soul. I hope she does ok!
Hotlips - so glad you have Meg to help you out! You are one lucky bat! Heal well!
Meg, you are amazing! Fingers and toes crossed for the battie. ❤❤❤
You are legend! Fantastic work removing that hook!
I've never been so impressed with a bat, she knew, she stayed still, pointy bits not engaged. What a ghastly situation for her, anglers leaving tackle and line are a menace. Love the MOP's sting ray video. Wishing Hotlips all the best, such a brave battie. ❤
That was impressive operating. Dr Adrian couldn't do better. I hope she heals and goes on to having babies.
So true, yeah, Meg!!
Having better tools and an anaesthetised bat might have made it easier, however it worked and she let me do it.
@@MegabattieWell done Meg!
Meg, thanks for having a large and varied toolkit. The stories it could tell.
Just tools collected over 45 years of living in my own place.
These were jewellery cutters from my school days 50 years ago.
She sure is a good girl!!! So pitiful and confused. You're in fabulous hands littlest!
So flat and exhausted
Thank you, wonderful person, for caring about living beings
Is this the only thing you know how to post? Every time, it's the same thing.
I know old fishing lines, and lures, and other bits and bobs get thrown in the water, but how in the world did a bat manage to get snagged and snagged so very badly? I held my breath the whole time you were operating.
Poor Hotlips! What a perfect name, Meg!
All of her struggling and trying to remove it with her mouth would probably account for it.
Could have been snagged while he was dipping for a drink
I think I remember Meg saying that fishermen sometimes get their hooks caught up in branches as they're casting, and instead of retrieving them, they just cut the line and leave them in the tree. Batties can then fly into them and get caught up before they know what's happened..
Could have been straight up caught by a poor angler.
Fisherman casts his lure and it gets caught in tree behind him on the backswing; bat flies into tree in dark and fishing lure is just dangling where she's flying, looking like a leaf, and she flies into it; first her face gets snagged then her wing when she flaps to try to get out of it. Voila, fisherman has inadvertently set up a trap for a bat later on when they're foraging at night.
At lease she doesn't have painful metal barbs weighing down her lips. She is a very brave girl and very pretty, too. Hotlips is the perfect name for her. Here's hoping she pulls through.
Precious little princess!
Meg you did amazing work today. I am keeping my fingers crossed for her to make it.
How in the world did she get a fish hook in her mouth?
Was divine intervention, with the tree lim breaking and the woman seeing it.
She is so well behaved and you are just amazing. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Given the multiple hook points I couldn't help wondering if someone accidentally threw and caught the bat, and then just cut the line and left the scene instead of dealing with it.
@@MumrikDK glad to see I wasn't the only one thinking this.
Fisherman casts his lure and it gets caught in tree behind him on the backswing; bat flies into tree in dark and fishing lure is just dangling where she's flying, looking like a leaf, and she flies into it; first her face gets snagged then her wing when she flaps to try to get out of it. Voila, fisherman has inadvertently set up a trap for a bat in the tree, for later in the night when the bats are foraging for food.
OMG! Poor creature! ❤
You are a wonder, Meg. That poor little thing. I hope she pulls through.
@@dwarfbeat1 Me too 🙏💗
Very well done getting rid of that horrible lure! And she was so well-behaved and quiet throughout the whole deal.
Oh no poor hotlips! That was a nasty wound I hope she recovers fully! I know that even beyond the infections they can kind of lose the battle to shock, so I hope the hook removal wasn't too traumatizing.
My husband loved fishing. I would go sit and read. He never left a hook.
What a nice woman to call you on the behalf of Hotlips. I can't imagine what she would have done without your help Meg. Hotlips was in a dire situation. What good team work. I hope she heals well. 🦇🙏💗
Hope Hotlips recovers! She's a very cooperative girl. Still hope she's got fight in her!
Her strength speaks volumes. It's almost like she knows you were there to help.
She could see I was helping, and she had no fight left in her; she could have been in the tree for days before the branch came down and she was close enough to the ground for people to see.
@@Megabattie I have a good feeling about her, really excited to follow this girl on her journey. She definitely seems sweet!!
She seems in a good deal of trouble
How utterly patient can this bat be!
Docile, terrified, and given up.
Please keep us updated. She is sweet . I love the ausie bats hey seem so smart and have good personalities.
Bats are colony dwellers so they have social and emotional intelligence, and it's of a kind of intelligence we can see and relate to.
@Megabattie not the ones here.
@@RoxanneSharbono-mb8ol The flying-foxes are the ones with emotional and social intelligence; the microbats probably have teh same kind of social intelligence, however we can't see this or relate to it, because the micros don't work with visual signals but use other intelligences beyond what we can see or hear.
Meg, I would suggest having a magnet on hand to check for tiny metal bits in a non-invasive way, less stressful for both of you, you are a blessing for these animals!
Some stainless steels are magnetic, and others are not.
I have a non magnetic stainless steel fridge.
I know where the barbs went so I just check I've got all the bits
You had me on the edge of my seat. HotLips is a great name! Not only were you patient with her, she was also patient. You do amazing work.
she was very cooperative
Such a good girl! Behaved beautifully for you Meg 😊❤️🦇
Such fortitude and grace from both of you in a tough spot without a veterinarian or full anesthesia. Well done!
She was very cooperative.
Reminds me of rescuing Bali who had a fish hook embedded in his balls; he let me cut it out without an anaesthetic as well. Search in teh YT search bar for Megabattie/Bali/embedded fish hook
She really is brave. She looks stunned though. Im so glad you found her. ❤
Beautiful surgery, Meg!
I call it butchery; I don't use gloves (need the sensitivity of my fingertips), and I don't sterilise the area - it's all fairly superficial so it will heal with little issue and if does get a pocket of infection it should either pop, or maybe need a course of antibiotics if it is serious, but usually they heal well with no interference.
But basically my surgery is crude but effective; she was the perfect patient and didn't move or fight me.
If she had, I may have had to leave the hooks in place after cutting off the lure, and just let her chill, but its a Sunday and my vet options are down to ONLY one practice now; Adrian's moving overseas (how dare he?) and one of the other batty vets is having intensive chemo and retiring... No batty vets available, nowhere which will let a bat in the door, and no other options.
I could have tried one of the vets at home and we could have perhaps used some alfaxan (anaesthetic), but that's a whole level more stress for the bat with transport and drugs and her body recovering from anaesthetic.
I used to have about 4 places I could take my bats, and emergency places on a weekend, however it all depends on bat friendly vets and their availability, and as they move between practices, or go away or have families, it all devolves.
Well done, Meg!! 👏 And Hotlips was an excellent, compliant patient. I wish her a swift and complete recovery, sweet girl. ❤🦇❤
I peeked between my fingers at times during the operation.
What intelligence is in her eyes.
Your skill and patience is world class. Thank you for all you do for these darlings.
She made it easy for me; I'd have had to get some sedation if she hadn't been so cooperative.
Meg, you and this bat are wonderful: you did everything patiently to rescue this poor girl and she' s an angel, she let you do all that it needs to rescue her, she deserves a second chance. Bats are so intelligent!! ❤❤❤
Another day, another bat rescue. Dedication.
Yep
Fingers crossed for Hot Lips. 💙
Yes!!!! I just breathed!!!
The poor dear 💔. Well done❣️
Poor sweetheart!! I'll keep all my fingers crossed for her!❤🦇❤🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
Wow, what an amazingly brave, clever, good bat! 😳 Great job, Meg ❤ getting the horrible thing out 💪
What a brave bat! I would have screamed the roof down. I hope Hotlips heals up soon. ❤
Poor little girl ! I hope she will go better !!!
I was also amazed at how quiet she was and cooperative. Its like she knew you were helping her! Bless you for your patience, you amaze me! LOL
I think that, whilst in the tree, she had given up because she was trapped in a way that she couldn't free herself, neither could any other bat. So basically she was waiting to die; she had one last gasp of effort trying to escape me, but it wasn't particularly focussed. Then she was kidnapped by a furless giant, and her life devolved further.
So by the time she got to my place she was confused and uncertain, then I started getting her out; and she decided to cooperate because the intent was clear.
Great work Meg! I’m impressed! Didn’t need the vet and camera was aimed perfectly so we can all see…..Poor Hotlips 👄 fingers crossed 🤞…..I loved the MOP coverage of the Stingray, they are so cool, don’t have them where I live but I’ve been to Monterey Bay Aquarium on the California Coast and they have them swimming in a low pool where you can sit & touch them as they swim by……
I like it that she noticed the stingray; it's good that the harbour is recovering and the water quality is improving enough to have stingrays flirting the shallows.
Thankyou so much for your big heart and caring for these beautiful little guys! I'm amazed by the way you handle them and treat them! I love your channel! Thankyou for sharing!!
Thanks; some batties, like Hotlips, are very passive and allow handling; some fight you every inch of the way; cooperation makes it so much easier.
There needs to be an arena watching this somewhere and the crowd erupting in cheers when the final hook was removed. Such patience... for both involved. Good show Meg!
They're fiddly to extract, but she was really docile and patient with me; I subsequently found another bit of hook in her nose.
Nice job Meg ❤
Meg this absolutely upset me badly!😭😭 I hate those careless fishing humans so much!🤬 You are such an amazing lady Meg and precious Hot Lips is an Angel beyond belief!🩶🦇💕 I keep positive prayers for her survival.🙏🥺💓 Thank you so much Meg and to the lovely MOP as well!💕
I've done maybe 5 fishing line entanglements; Jiggzi survived, Bali didn't, Tarbi survived, and Yabbi who survived. And Hotlips. I have 4 fishing lures I kept because they represent human caused suffering. Yabbi didn't haver a lure, but had the fishing line wrapped around his wrist and was dangling from a tree 7 metres up and hanging over a river about 6 metres from the bank.
@@Megabattie, I remember Jiggzi.
@@Megabattie Meg you really are the Bat's Angel Rescuer on this earth!🥺💕 I thank you from the bottom of my heart & soul for what you do. Hot Lips was so brave, bless her heart.🩶🦇🥺💕
I don't think i could have been so brave as that little girl! I hope she makes a full recovery.
She's very docile, which isn't a good thing
You’re making such a difference to these bats and their suffering. Thank you
Pobre Hotlips, qué manera de enredarse con el anzuelo. Yo supongo que habrá sido al intentar soltarse. Me parece que ella sabe que Usted la está ayudando. Me admira la calma de la murciélaga. Crucemos los dedos para que Hotlips se recupere de sus heridas y pueda ser liberada. Pase lo que pase, muchas gracias Meg por ayudarle.
OP's video of the Stingray was a nice surpise 😊 Poor Batty she must have been really struggling. The amount of pain she must have been in, and she was so good too, i think she knew you wanted to help. Good luck Hotlips, and thank you OP for finding her, and as always med, amazing work ❤❤
She was definitely quiet, I pray she makes it 🙏🏻❤❤
c'mon hot lips! pull through!
that hook situation was really tricky- it took a lot of perseverance to remove all those barbs especially without any other help. sending you a virtual round of applause for that
Thanks; fiddly work. I could have called Maggie but she does aqua aerobics on Sunday mornings, and having 2 people's hands cluttering up the area isn't exactly helpful
@@Megabattie 2 people is probably more stressful for the bat too!
Good job to both of you! Watching this I realized I was literally sweating & it’s snowing bucket load here☃️
She made it easy
bloody amazing! I was on the very edge of my seat! You ROCK so HARD! with jewlery snips ...
necessity is the mother of invention! Harkens me back to when you opened the jar with the drill .. some words were said like ... A JAR WILL NOT BEAT ME!
😂
Oh, man, I missed that one! That's a definite must-see moment.
I'm surprised I haven't seen any Best of Megabattie compilations, lol.
I think I would have said that I would not allow myself to be defeated by a jar of garlic. I'm a fixer; I fixed it.
The good thing about the jewellery side cutters is that it had a spring so it sprung back in between snips. I must look for a more heavy duty one which also has a spring, so it can be used one handed and easily.
I had an art teacher at school who was a big influence on me (I still visit her regularly because she lives locally); she personally bought the jewellery snips and pliers for the art class because our school was selective but poorly funded, and she wanted us to have good tools. I'm not actually ashamed to say I stole them in the final year; the school was closing down forever in its current premises, and the new school was better funded; I told my art teacher on the last visit, that I stole them and she said - good to have them used.
Cutting the hooks for Hotlips shattered the tip of these jewellery cutters, but they've had a good life with me and been well used for all sorts of things.
So brave Meg, I'm sure she appreciated the help immensely ❤🤞🍁🦇🇨🇦
She knew I was helping her and she had no fight left in her
What a treat to see the Stingray in the shallow water.🤗💕 I hope they stay away from humans who fish/hunt.😳
They’re more afraid of us. We were taught to drag our feet in the shallows- the stingray shuffle. They shoot off to avoid being stepped on. One of my Labs got hit twice, though (and my sister, once, because she was swimming, and stopped, and her feet touched the bottom, on a stingray).
I tense up at the ochies of batties. Can't stand to see their pain. 🦇❣️
That was a 'harrowing' procedure to get the hook points out; yet Meg you and Hotlips handled it with such grace. (I kept wishing you were only removing a stuffed animal 'fart'-box like that one time you and Maggie did such a hilarious mock operation). ++++Hoping Hotlips the Best !!
I def preferred the fart box surgery per rectum; I'm so good at improvising
@@Megabattie You were definitely as good handling this matter Ms.Lady and your calm was masterful. KUDOS!
Terribile quanto successo al povero pippistrello. Ci vorrebbe più rispetto x i nostri fratelli animali ❤grazie Meg
Magi, thank you very match for your work!!!
Evening Meg love to you an babies Annuk 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧❤️❤️❤️🦇🦇🦇
Thanks Annuk
Well done!!!👏😍you are a legend🔝❤👍🌸
Curses on the person who left that hook about. Strong curses.
this is probably the nastiest rescue i have seen since i started watching your videos... i hope she survives
Jiggzi and Tarbi and Yabbi and Bali; Bali didn't survive but the other 3 did; Bali had a fracture in his shoulder and his elbow had dislocated and wasn't stable, so he was euthanased, but I cut the fishhook out of his balls and he let me, without anaesthetic. I cut Jiggzi's out at the vet, and Tarbi had an anaesthetic drug and we cut it out at another carer's place; and Yabbi didn't have a hook in him, just fishing line tangled around his wrist, from which he was dangling over a river about 6 metres out from the bank.
Great work on this little sweetheart! This makes me feel very vindicated for cleaning up lines and lures whenever I visit the water. We don't have megabats on Turtle Island*, but it is a problem for our birds of prey. There's a taxidermy exhibit in our local rangers' station of an osprey caught in line! Not even just birds of prey, either - there was a pair of Canada geese at one of our lakes, and the female had a lure wrapped around her foot. She almost let us get close enough to free her (the geese here at remote lakes who aren't overexposed to humans actually have lovely temperaments), but we weren't able to, so we called Fish and Game. That was years ago. Hope she ended up doing alright. She could swim around okay, but it looked very uncomfortable.
*Indigenous name for North America in case you haven't heard it before!
Thanks for policing the waste and caring.
I hadn't heard about Turtle Island as the indigenous name for north America; pretty big island...
Damn fish hooks!!!!!
Poor baby! What a awful predicament!!
Hotlips Hoolihan
MASH - lol
@francesfarmer736 Amazing show.
Need to watch that again.
Meg you can do this. Doing great. See you're the person. Tweezers are great here. Great job Meg 🎉🎉
I cant believe she wasn’t screaming and thrashing from pain??!!😮 shes a strong lil girl❤
All of this is fairly superficial but it's delicate and would sting quite a bit
@ thank you for the response!! Hi from the States💁🏼♀️
@@flashee23 Are you new to the channel flashee?
@@Megabattie ohh no, I’ve been watching you for years😄
Thanks for being a viewer
Povera creatura 😢🦇 gli umani con le loro azioni crudeli o superficiali possono fare tanto del male agli animali 😤
Grazie per il vostro intervento, siete preziose. 🙏❤
Meg I hope you have the best Christmas. 🎄🎄🎄🎄
Thanks Bingus; I don't celebrate Christmas, however I do celebrate family.
@Megabattie oh I'm glad you'll be with family then. You're so kind hearted. 💕
Maravilhosa!!! Meus respeitos a vcs dois
SInce the video's title is in French and about "leurre de pêche" and knowing that in French the word "pêche" goes for both fishing and peach the fruit, I thought the fruit first. I understood it was about a fishing lure only by watching the video and it was a shock. Poort little bat! She's so cute. I can't imagine her chances of survival if she had struggled during the rescue/operation... Luckily she was so quiet and passive. I'm agnostic but I pray for her anyway.
PS I saw the previous video about Molly and Buck? Not sure I remember their names well. I'm still crying when remembering this video. I discovered this channel a couple days/weeks ago, and Meg, I guess you were told this countless times before, but you're a truly wonderful person. Greetings from France.
LOL that's kind of funny.
The previous video was Lizzie and Buck; Lizzie was dying from when I rescued her, her body just hadn't caught up with it, and Buck was flat and not grabby when I pulled him off his mum.
Apparently quite a few viewers think I caused the death of both Lizzie and Buck by separating them; also apparently, everyone is a self appointed expert and has an opinion which is categorically correct which makes me wrong. I'm a bit over the keyboard warrior harassment at the moment; it's a bit much to have to deal with the actual deaths after rescue without having to deal with the people who always know better.
I've done a few fishing lure rescues, but she was the most cooperative, with Bali coming a close second. He let me cut a fishhook out of his balls and wing; after trying to turn me into confetti at rescue he was amazingly docile when I cut it out; occasionally he lifted his head and licked his balls then lay back and let me keep going.
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@@Megabattie "I'm a bit over the keyboard warrior harassment at the moment;
it's a bit much to have to deal with the actual deaths after rescue without having to deal with the people who always know better."
I believe I couldn't understand you better. I hate this kind of people too.
I'm in computers and electronics and nothing bothers me more than rookies in these domains I master the more giving me lessons about it instead of grabbing the chance to learn something (in truth maybe seeing a mumbat and her baby on their to way to die even when you made your best, could be a thing that bothers me more in the end ^^).
It's kind of obvious you know what you're doing with bats and I'm very impressed and feel much respect when watching your videos. I saw other videos of yours where you separate a baby (or even twins) from his/her/their mother and in the end, thanks to you, to your care and love, they're all living and healthy!
I couldn't allow myself to give you any lesson (except maybe about computers and electronics) if about bats. It's so obvious that you're the one knowing these animals and each time I watch one of your videos, I feel like 30 or 40 years ago when I was at school, in a time when studends were respectful toward teachers.
I learn about bats with you. I already was someone who liked bats before, but now I watch your channel, I truly love them.
To the point I cry when you fail to save one. I can't imagine how hard it must be for you.
Don't give a f*ck to these auto-named specialists bothering you in the comments. I know, it's far easier to say it than to do it.
Just remember, you have many more supporters to you and your cause. Ones who were educated to respect their elders.
And I'm one of them (I'm 44, born in 1980). Just thank you for sharing what you do with us, you're wonderful Meg.
RIP Lizzie and Buck. Poor little cuties. At least you passed near someone loving you. That's what I would wish when it'll my turn.
PS I love when you're giving them glucose or something to drink.
The way they're using their tongue to eat/drink is so adorable. Or when they eat fruit chunk, I can't get enough seeing this. ^^
LOL I barely take advice from myself let alone from someone with NFI who inflicts their advice on me, after the event, when they are totally ignorant of the subject and do sweet FA in the way of useful things in their life anyway.
If you were my electronics/IT advisor I'd just say: I know nothing about this; will you be my consultant? Better still, just do it for me and don't filter it through my brain or ineptitude. I won't advise you on anything because I have NFI about it.
I surround myself with people who have the knowledge of things which intersect with my needs, and just do it for me without me having to learn a new skill I might not use for 20 years (by then I'll be dead), by which time I'll have forgotten what I learned. I like having a coterie of "guys" who fix things, know things, and are enchanted by me and fall over themselves to help me. I also love guys who put air in my tyres for me; give me a cranky bat to wrangle any day rather than soiling my hands putting air in my tyres... In moments like these, I play either/both the blonde and the old lady card - whichever works best on the target guy.
I am usually thick skinned, but yesterday I had to fend off a whole bunch of experts who all savaged me and blamed me for the deaths of Lizzie and Buck, because I took the baby off Lizzie and she died of "stress" and baby Buck died because I'd removed him from his mother.
Oh, and I didn't take them to a vet who obviously would have saved them from my ineptitude; the vets phone ME if they get a bat into their practice and ask me what to do; if I go there it's for something they can do - like xrays, ultrasounds, blood tests, and a general: I don't know what else to do can you think of anything else I might have missed?
The vets provide me with analgesia, and antibiotics; I have a fast track route to them by text and I send videos so they see what I'm talking about, and I come to them if I can't do anything more but think they might be able to.
It's galling to be sliced and diced by the opinion of a vet who "knows" you have done everything wrong because they wouldn't have done it that way, and that the bat died, but this opinion is formed by a total lack of experience with flying-foxes but some experience with microbats...
Yesterday I was feeling fragile and the criticism was really hurtful.
@@Megabattie To me Lizzie died from this shock to her head as you told us in the video, and her involuntary movements you, and every attentive viewer, noticed were nothing but a strong clue leading to this conclusion. (Sorry if I fail to tell exactly what I want in English, even if I have a good level in this language, I'm always learning, and sometimes I'm not sure if what I'm writing tell exactly what I want; remember, I'm French).
And still, we haven't necessarily all the elements, she (and Buck) may have suffered something we aren't aware of.
Every one of her spasms were like a knife strike in my heart, starting when you put this subtitle saying this is not good. Damn, I wasn't even aware, before, to the point of how I can love living (or having lived) beings. Watching your videos, this kind of video especially, is kind of new to me on YT/the Internet.
It's a little like watching an emotional movie, except it's real, and if the bat die, she really passes away. And if she's saved, even more on the babies, it's so much joy! In both cases, I cry (Yes I'm the kind of man who cry, not always OC, but it happens fresuently when watching your videos! T_T ).
I'll never understand these lesson givers "Look at me I'm THE specialist" people who are seemingly unable to see how YOU must be hurt when you fail to save one. They probably imagine you're making all this just for the glory, aand because you just bored maybe?
And they'll never think you do it because you LOVE them, just simply by loving them.
When it's so obvious to the eye (and ear) of people like myself or many others in all your videos' comment section.
At the same time, I understand how criticism, especially when totally undeserved/irrelevant, can be painful.
Hold on Meg, don't give up (I know you won't, never; I can feel it, and I'm not a first hour viewer on your channel), you have many supporters knowing how you're an example of how good human beings can be (once again, I hope my English is understandable enough).
Never allow others, especially those thinking that the whole of mankind is evil,
to let you doubt about how wonderful you are as a human being.
Yes evil/bad people exists, but you're certainly not part of them.
@@axelbartmoss8045 thanks
What a darling MoP! She was lovely.
I read Hotlips and immediately thought of Major Margaret Houlihan from MASH. I was thoroughly expecting a loud, Very Opinionated Lady. She was still very persistent, even knocked into bamboozledom. But, as with Major Houlihan, she seems to appreciate the importance of triage and on-the-fly surgeries.
I'm just so confused as to how on earth a flying fox would come into contact with a gnarly lure like that. What on earth are the fisherfolk doing?? Unless someone was trying to teach themselves how to fly fish and was just too lazy or selfish to retrieve a lure that got stuck in a tree? 🤔 It's so weird. That poor girl.
Yes, THE famous Hotlips; I'm sure Ms Hotlips is a confident little miss, once she gets over her entanglement issues.
Fishermen on the bay casting their lures and accidentally getting them stuck in the trees behind them, cutting their line and discarding the lure dangling in the tree behind them; bat flies into a feed tree (native fig tree) and doesn't see the dangling lure, gets snagged, twists and dangles then hangs there, face connected to her wing, unable to fly, unable to get the hook out, struggles struggles then gives up.
The poor lil sweetheart. Bats are smart, she knew she couldn't get out of her pickle by herself, so allowed you to help. Ok she reminded you a few times that one side of her mouth was free, but holy crap she was a good girl. I agree 100% on the fishing hooks being left wherever the fishers like. Wildlife shouldn't have to pay the price for a humans laziness! Will be keeping my paws crossed for her to survive. It's reminded me of another "de-hooking" vid from a few yrs back i think. The boy who had his nuts hooked, can't think of the name now, but he was also amazingly co-operative about the whole ordeal. Was cool to see the sting ray too! *edited to say his name was Bali. I went and looked lol
Yes, Bali; also Tarbi who was very hard to rescue, and Jiggzi who had her cheek and fanny connected by a lure and was dangling in the tree. Yabbi had fishing line wrapped around his wrist and was dangling over a river.
Poor little girl! Nasty careless fishermen!
I can’t believe she didn’t try to bite you or pull away!
I think they get all fatalistic; she'd given up because there was no escape from her situation that she could effect.
She tried to escape me because she didn't want her situation to get worse, but then I was helping her.
Since she'd already given up, she let it play out because she could see that I was solving her problem for her.
But being that docile isn't always good.
I want to take a moment to express my appreciation for those who have the stomach to provide this kind of medical help. Because I don't. Gd bless you!
Thanks; I have a peculiar brain which can cope with this.
What a patient bat that let you remove all those barbs. What a lazy, irresponsible fisher person to leave hooks laying in nature! I was just gifted a part of a fir tree from Washington state. It was cut for burning in a wood stove....and it had a fishing hook and fly wedged into it! 😇❤️🖤🦇🖤❤️
You find hooks everywhere, totally unexpectedly
😢@@Megabattie
Awe Meg, I agree. How horrible for this poor thing. She probably dipped down to get a drink, and the hook was on the surface of the water.
No, it would have been hanging in the tree, a discarded lure after it was entangled in the tree behind whilst being cast; Hotlips would have flown into it and got snagged by face and upper wing near her face.
The fishermen just cut off the line with the lure and attach a new one, discarding the lure because it's way up in the tree and unreachable and the hooks won't let them pull it down with the end of the line.
@Megabattie that is so said.
That's really, REALLY STUPID of the bloke to be so obdurately careless with his fishing gear! If he tangled up a child or dog with his lures, he'd throw a tantrum at THEM--even striking them--for mucking up his fishing!
I have never seen such a brave and patient patient. The guy who did this, ought to be located and made to watch this, and reimburse you for your expenses.
Is that a cockatiel chirping in the house 👌 Poor battie-good luck
On my balcony; i enclosed the area so the birds have flight space, shade, sun, access to the rain (they love the rain), and things to chew
So is shock the reason she’s so quiet & letting you get on with it? Or paralyzing fear? You’ve said shock can lead to death, but can bats overcome that?
Both; fear, myopathy, helplessness; she can't fix it herself and I'm not hurting her more than minimally, so she goes along with it.
I think in the tree she had nearly given up and was waiting to die; though there was one last escape attempt to get away from another stressor in her life.
Dang, Meg, I wish you had some hard, long cylinder or a dowel to hold her mouth open. Something round like a pencil or magic marker but hard to keep open her mouth so you could work more independently with 2 hands. She is also very patient and docile. Did you give her an anesthetic to calm her?
If you watched the video you'd know she did.... First thing!
@@mellie4174,
Did you read the description? Meg puts a lot of detail in the descriptions. She mentioned that no bat friendly vets were available for anesthesia. The shot she gave Hot Lips at 8:02 was for pain (analgesia).
amore bello ❤️
This makes me so angry. That is one appalling set of hooks. Fishermen/women should never abandon these lures. You have done an amazing job or removing all that metal work. A vicious piece of tackle, how it that even allowed? Good luck little girl, you’re in the best of hands.❤
The tackle is common so I guess it's legal, and it's available for sale everywhere.
It's sad to see her face and wings hanging on the fishing lures, she looking so painful. I hope she recovers as painlessly as possible.
the injuries are very superficial.
Poor bat. She was awfully passive for all that handling. Had to have been excruciating for her. Hope she heals up and can be released.
She's very flat which is worrying; I hope she can pull through because we all need survivors at the moment, and I'm pretty sure she would choose to live if she could
🙏🙏🙏❤
Armer Flughund 😮
By the fact that she didn’t bite you while you were working around her mouth, it looks like Hotlips instinctively knew you didn’t mean her any harm and you were trying to help her, and placed a ton of trust in you
What exactly she knew is not really knowable, however she could see I was taking away the hooks, and maybe she thought she'd be able to escape or I would let her go as soon as I get them out; cooperation was in her best interests.
Will the wing heal
A hole will close up remarkably well, unless the edge is broken.
Oh yes, a hole is no more than a puncture which closes over in no time
😮...❤❤❤!!!🎉
The pointy bits were a little extra pointy that day
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How sad to see Hotlips suffer because fishers can't seem to clean up after themselves. If they can't be sure of getting a fallen lure back, they shouldn't be casting it in the first place.
She may be exhausted but she still took a few nips at you at first, and none towards the end. I think we can forgive you, Meg, for allowing yourself to think that bats can feel (shhh they totally can :) ).
Such a sorry and desperate state to be stuck with your face wired to your wing... even if she was stuck there for longer, I'm still hoping she can pull through. Rest and heal little Hotlips, you're in good hands now.
I know she can feel pain and I know she's socially intelligent and has good eyesight, so I know she can read intent; she assessed me and knew that I was helping her, or at least I was providing her with a possible escape once I got her free enough for her to think she might find an opening for escape.
@@Megabattie I joke a little in regards to the description and other comments about anthropomorphizing them, though maybe my wording isn't great. I know they can feel, that we can't know what they're thinking but can probably assume they are motivated by food or self preservation, and that they don't think in the same way we do, but I also can't look at them, made of different amounts of the same stuff we are, and attribute to them any less than a different or simpler level of thought. Every animal is adapted and specialized differently, we got high level logic and abstract reasoning, they're incredibly smart and capable in the ways that are important to them. Despite the many unknowns, it's beautiful to see when some of that shows through in sensitive moments like this.
@@Shadowtrot Bats are amazing and what's more amazing is that their intelligence is something with which we can easily interact.