My cat caught a bat tonight IN OUR HOUSE...please help

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP here. I did not come into direct contact with the bat so no, they did not suggest talking to my doctor about my own health. Then again, I did not call a human doctor about it. Pretty sure that if you don't actually touch the bat that it would be impossible to contract anything from it. I used a huge bath towel to scoop it up, wrap it up, and remove it from the house.

In general they recommend a rabies shot if you wake up with a bat in your bedroom, because bat teeth are so tiny that there's no way to know if you were bitten in your sleep - and there's no cure for rabies once symptoms arise. It's just a better safe than sorry scenario, since you didn't know if the bat was rabid.