Rescuing a flying-fox tangled in netting: this is Mrs Winkie
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- Опубліковано 31 гру 2021
- Mrs Winkie is an adult female Grey-Headed Flying-Fox who was noticed by some walkers, tangled in netting in the gutter beside a quiet road.
It makes my blood boil when I get this kind of rescue, because it means someone has cut them out of the netting in their tree and thrown them over the fence, expecting them to untangle themselves and fly off, or die without inconveniencing themselves.
All they have to do is to call wildlife rescue and someone will come and do this safely for the bat and the MOP, and most likely will offer them free netting to replace their crappy stuff.
This was worse than normal large aperture netting; this was monofilament netting, which I generally call slice and dice netting. The single fine strands of nylon fishing line thickness cut the bats membrane and mouth as they attempt to free themselves by biting on the netting.
There are still a few discount garden and hardware stores who sell this death netting and will continue to do so because it's cheap.
When I arrived, the poor girl was in the gutter, swathed in the netting with no hope of freeing herself. It took me 25 minutes to free her from the netting with scissors and hands with opposable thumbs; what chance did she have with just teeth and a mouth muzzled by netting.
The lovely MOPs (members of public) who found her, stayed and helped, and videoed for me when my video glasses, who had apparently been freelancing in my car, recording the ceiling view and other delights and flattening the battery, died a few minutes into the rescue. (That was quite a sentence wasn't it? Hope it makes sense)
For a while, Mrs Winkie was called Mrs Monumentally Cranky Pants, which isn't obvious in this video but comes to the fore in the next instalment of her time with me.
I was going to call her Winkurri, but one of the neighbours shortened it to Winkie which seemed to fit her well.
I have moved Mrs Winkie along to a carer along with Gertie, and I hear that while her wings are in the process of blistering and falling apart, she is doing better than expected.
I also hear that she's a sweet girl, passive and cooperative, which makes my heart glad that she's settled down and isn't so stressed.
Hang in their Mrs Winkie. If the world was the faintest bit fair you wouldn't be in this situation.
Update: Mrs Winkie is doing really well and is on track for release in the next release cycle. Her injuries are comparatively minimal considering the horrible netting and her entanglement.
She was saved by the thickness of the netting and that she didn't have single strand tight entanglements around her wing membrane.
I love happy outcomes. - Домашні улюбленці та дикі тварини
I can't believe someone would dump her in that state, it's people like that, that prove why I prefer animals. You did an amazing job, Meg and I'm pleased she did so well.
I very much do too
As much as my heart breaks for Mrs. Winkie, there's a wee bit of relief that an MOP was kind enough, caring enough to contact you, and stayed to do anything at all to help. It gives me a small hope that good people still try to offset the actions of thoughtless idiots.
The MOPs were lovely and very helpful.
This poor little girl was found tangled up in netting inside a gutter by a quiet road, this just breaks my heart into pieces!!!😭😭😭💔💔💔 Bless the compassionate MOP(s) for finding her and for caring. Some Humans suck but many are so beautiful!!/2024 Chicago IL USA.
Geez how awful to just throw a living being on/near the road in such a condition! *cheering for a survivor*
Bless the 2 kind MOPs. 🎊
yes
That kind of netting is criminal, I wish people would know better. I wish she will recover and pursue her freedom 🦇 !!! You are an angel Meg ❤️ !!
Those cries are heart wrenching
Meg you are a true angel warrior for the batties! I think the powers above put you here on earth to help these misunderstood beautiful creatures. Every rescue you exemplify love, concern and patience... with a dose of humor! And I am also impressed that you always provide the MOP educational, sound advice insofar as all aspects of battie conservation. I always look forward to your next video installment. Please keep up the GREAT work... and sharing of your AWSOME videos. Keep 'em coming!
Well that was a pretty comprehensive compliment. Thanks.
Very well said. I agree 100%!!
So, here we are at the gates of Heaven. An admission angel finishes Meg's paperwork, says everything's in order, and hands her a bag with the standard halo, harp, and white feathered wings. Meg looks disappointed and says "I was hoping for black, membranous wings…" All the angels at the admission desk fall into silent shock, other people in line look nervous, but Saint Peter flys over and says "relax everyone, Meg's on the 'special angel' list" and hands her a bag with big bat wings, a floppy-ear monster hat, and a Gibson Les Paul (because why not?), then points her towards a cloud of bats looping and diving happily over a grove of fruit trees.
Hear, hear. Very well said.
@@Megabattie Yes it was! Very well said and true!
Prayers for Mrs. Winkie that she heals and recovers fully from this awful netting. How anyone could just throw her away in the street like that🤬🤬🤬I hope they don't have children! Thank you Meg for helping this beautiful battie!
Watching you cut Mrs. Twinkie out of that nasty netting made me cry. I cannot imagine how painful that was for her and you. Plus being scared and cranky too didn't help but was understandable. That was one very tangled battie. I hope she makes it. She was so lucky that you came to save her. 💜💜💜
You're in excellent hands, dear. Meg is tops!
Whew! I was exhausted just watching you cut her free. What an ordeal and I agree with how infuriating that is that someone just cut her and her entanglement out and tossed her over the fence! How utterly disrespectful of another life. But, so wonderful of the MOPs to call and stay to assist. I'm happy to hear that it's "so far, so good" with brave Mrs. Winkie. Hang in there and get fully well soon! 🤞❤🦇
Amazing that Mrs. Winkie survived at all. May she defy the odds and fly free again.
The carer (I saw her today) said Mrs Winkie looks good and though she has some membrane damage it looks like she will be releasable in time.
@@Megabattie fantastic! Yay!
This is a horrible video in as much as the poor, poor girl has been caught in that nasty netting, but every time I see a little foot reach out like that, it melts my heart.
these feet are very impressive.
I adore batty feet - they're so sculptural and so well designed.
I'm not the most eloquent speaker, not a giver of speeches. But Meg, dearest friend of all who love these precious batties, I cannot, and I feel no one else can either, put in to words how we appreciate the needed work you do. The bats love you,as we all do. You have no idea how grateful we all are for you and the workers, and the veterinarians. Many,many blessings to you this New Year 2022!🖤🦇🖤🦇🖤
I think your words were perfectly eloquent and I agree with all of them. Happy 2022!
She's having fits and then "why sure I'll have a grape".😄
What a mess she was in! Poor little lady. I hope she continues to heal. Thank you Meg for never giving up ❤
In situations like this, giving up is not an option. If it was too difficult to do single handedly, I'd have dropped in on another carer or the vet, to get it done with another pair of hands.
Having access to a second pair of hands for a rescue is rare.
@@Megabattie extra hands would've been ideal! I'm guessing super heros like you are spread pretty thin. Thankful for all you do and the time you spend on sharing and educating us.
I would help any day everyday but I‘m half a world away.
Those people that apparently must protect their fruit trees from the bats are so ill informed. There wouldn’t be any fruit trees anywhere if it wasn’t for the literal fruit bats who spread the seeds everywhere they fly. The animals are a blessing and so important for countless other wildlife that has food because of the precious bats.
Oh Meg, thank goodness Mrs. Winkie🩶🦇💕💕 survived that ghastly netting!!🤬🤬 You couldn't have had a better MOP, even assisting you & filming too? She totally rocked, my kind of Human for sure!👍💕 Thanks again Meg for saving this girl.🥰
The MOPs were lovely
@@Megabattie Yes they were, I'm so happy to hear there are other awesome people out there, who really do care about the Bats.🦇💕💕
I cannot imagine taking a precious little creature like that and just dumping her in the gutter like a piece of trash! How would they like to be treated so inhumanely??!!
It makes my blood boil.
If the world was the faintest bit fair! Thank you for saving Mrs. Winkie, so fortunate being rescued by MOP and you. Disgusting netting hoping the sale of it and use is outlawed.
We're rooting for a full recovery for Mrs. Winkie ❤️
She may lose some membrane, but currently the carer is of the opinion that she will survive this and be releasable.
@@Megabattie Ohhh, praise God! Let it be so!
Oh, those sounds at 14:55. She's like "I'm obviously not frightening the giant monster, so I'm just going to have myself a good cry."
Poor Winkie. She was really entangled in that slice-and-dice crap. You earned a nice drink or whatever to relax after that. I hope whoever’s netting that was goes out and buys the right kind you can’t stick a pinkie through.
If they did this to the bat and just discarded her on the side of the road, they will not buy decent netting. I never hold my breath in these situations
Thanks MOP who called.. Hang in there Miss Winkie I promise if you hang in there You will have a fabulous recovery team to help you. Right now I am in tears because of what you had to go through. Our Meg is the best
This is a normal part of bat rescue life. Fortunately this particular scenario isn't common.
Thank you Meg and Thanks to the wonderful MOP's!!💕💕I am Re-watching for my neice to see, she loves Bats too, this is very sad at start but thankfully Mrs. Winkie did survive!🩶🦇💕💕
Mrs Winkie was really lucky; she had a terrible entanglement
@@Megabattie Thank the Angels on Earth: caring MOP's😇 and a top-notch Rescuer: Meg.😇 This made a HUGE difference for Mrs. Winkie's surviving. Thank you!🥰
Thank you Meg for all you love and caring❤️❤️
Keeping my everything crossed for you too Mrs Winkie. I'm so sorry that all this has happened to you and hope you can get past it. Thanks to the good samaritan who called for Meg to come. Thank you for all you do, Meg, as well as other rescuers, carers, and support folks, to help these poor little souls in need.
I made the horrible mistake years ago of putting netting over my fig tree. No flying foxes here but a bird got caught and passed away by the time I found it. I threw the net away and decided if I never got another fig it would be okay as no animals would be harmed. Within a few years my fig tree had grown like crazy and now all the animals, birds, and bees can have a feast and there is plenty left over for the humans!
You can safely net your tree with something like shade cloth, however if you're willing to share, then that's all to the good of the wildlife and your pleasure.
Get well fast, litttle one 💝
Poor Mrs Winkie, she had every right to be a cranky pants. I’m glad to hear she is doing well, fingers crossed she can be released
My hands and knees ache from watching that titanic struggle!
I join the chorus of commenters that rejoice that Mrs. Crankypants/Mrs. Winkie is doing well, considering the horrid monofiliment netting she was tangled up in! A nightmare!
Thank you, dear Meg! Love you!
I think she was lucky in that most of her entanglement was a bulk entanglement - thick hanks of the netting rather than individual tight and single filament entanglements.
My goodness they could have trapped a damn elephant with all that netting 😡 looked like they cut large, wrapped her and tossed her over the fence. Lovely MOPs so glad they called her in. Ms Winkie didn't stand a chance. That was probably one of longest cutouts I've seen you do. Great job 💜 Extremely happy to hear she's doing well
I think I've had similar cut out times; there was one where the entanglement over his wrist was so tight I took him to the vet. He had fractures so he wasn't going to survive, so I chose to euthanase him at the vet rather than put him through the trauma of removing the entanglement at the site. It took me 10 minutes to cut it off his wrist after he was dead.
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@@Megabattie yes I remember that one, it was the huge mass of netting that is upsetting. Like they purposely was trying to make sure she would not escape....leaving to to a very slow and agonizing death. 😢 But on the brighter side it also reminded me of your little "winking" 🤣🤣🤣 battie that had ALL of us including yourself and Maggie giggling hysterically 😂 I hope your father is doing better along with everyone else in your family and battie world. Hope it's a great year for the bats!! You have no idea how much this channel entertains me (prob others too) since I have been stuck at home unable to work because of Covid. Thank you 💜
@@concreteinkspots Thanks Painter. My Dad is OK but still needs some help.
I love "winkie" little boy bits.
Remember Piccolo? One of the reasons for his name is that he had his own personal little "piccolo".
Maggie and I can't be trusted to respect any male organ I'm afraid. We can only see the ridiculousness of it.
I'm so pleased people watch the channel and that it helps them. I love to share my passion.
Good news today - Maggie and I released a batty who flew well and is back with her people now. Hope you can figure out whom and wait for the video.
Gosh, I love all of the little battie bits....big 'ole feet grasping for a hold, white teeth, pointy tongues and knobbley elbows to name a few. I love your videos. Thank you for your good work Meg!
1:39 "I'm EXTREMELY displeased with this situation!"
Thank you for the translation!
She got even more monumentally cranky later, then when I got her to the carer the next day, she was apparently as sweet and passive and loveable as we know our batties can be.
Awwww poor baby 😞
I love her firey spirit, she sure was giving Meg an earful on what she thought of the rather shoddy netting removal technique being used. Which through no fault of her own(i.e. struggling to escape) was taking far too long in Mrs. Winkie aka Mrs. Cranky Pants opinion, of which she was quite willing to share! 🤣🤣Heal up as quick as you can sweet girl, until then enjoy the room service and hooman 🧟🧟🧟slaves!🦇🥰
Omgosh - rogue filming glasses! Well, I guess we all.must go crazy sometimes. I feel so bad for This poor bat. She sounds as if she is in pain. Best wishes to her.
WOW, Meg you get a A+. Poor bat.
That netting is horrible. They need to ban the use of them. Fingers crossed she pulls through, she was caught really bad. So glad the MOP cared enough to call. Good job with the rescue....it must have been very difficult.
Her wings are falling apart, but the general trend is not too bad, so the carer thinks she has a good chance of release at this stage. It could go wrong later, but the membrane dropout appears to be something which will heal, given time.
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now she' s free
flying in a world, where is only love; wonderful flowers, delicious fruits, ... 🙏 🌈
Yep
It’s so frustrating that this netting hasn’t been banned. 😡
Glad to hear she’s doing better. That was a long and stressful ordeal for both of you.
Omg! The poor baby ! His cries of pain and fear ! Breaks my heart!
She's doing really really well now and will go into the release aviary soon.
I love how you see things Meg. The idea of your video glasses “freelancing” while they recorded the roof of the car is delightful. 😄 I’m so glad Mrs Winkle is recovering. I’m sure she’s receiving medication for pain, too. The blistering and bruising produced by that monofilament netting sounds horrific!
Me too! I love how Meg calls it as she sees it! Meg is a wonderful lady for going above and beyond to save these beautiful bats. My heart hurts when listening to the poor sweeties cry as they are being loosened from the netting and this netting is the wrong type for fruit trees, etc. I won't say exactly what I would do to the "person" who threw Mrs. Winkie on the ground, but if you can imagine it, it would be done! I hate when these poor bats get tangled in netting and barbed wire!
I can only assume freelancing - there was some of the car ceiling, and some when it was hanging on the back of my door. Who knows what was in their mind when they did this. I did mention that if they wanted their own YT channel they needed to do 2 things, and one was to download their footage and recharge the glasses before I wanted to use them, and to find something more interesting to video.
Of course she gets pain medication. They all get pain medication as required. They can't heal if they're in pain.
@@Megabattie That's three! Hahaha!
Thank you dear Meg!
MoPs are so kind and lovely people!
I never thought I would feel so charmed by bats?!!!! Totally warmed. And you, Madam, are an amazing person. You can't make up for all thee vil in the world. But making darn good inroads. Love you!
Thanks Anna.
I"m nothing special, just someone who is able to live my passion, which makes me lucky.
Welcome to Megabattie,
I put lots of information in the descriptions under the videos - so if you have questions, look for the answers there first. I also put the fate of the animal if I know it, at the time I put the video up. I may put updates there later if I find out what happened to the animal after it has left my care.
There is also a Happy Outcomes playlist if you want to only watch videos where the bat survives; this is a real life channel and you get the good, the bad, the ugly and distressing, and even my oopsies.
You can find further videos on an individual bat by searching in the YT search bar for Megabattie/and the name of the bat you want to follow.
There is a community tab (like a mini Facebook page) on my channel - if you go to Megabattie home page, there is a menu bar across the top under the cover pic. Home, Videos, Playlists, Community, About. If you click on the community tab there are posts there where I can share pix and talk about some of the videos I put up and answer questions.
@@Megabattie Watching your videos lifts my heart. So you're doing something for humanity too!
Keeping fingers crossed for lovely Mrs. Winkie, she was so lucky that you rescued her, 25 minutes of net cutting .. Wow .. Looking forward to more news on her recovery, thanks so much 💞💞💞💞
When I said I was tired of fighting her, I really was tired of fighting her. My catch hand was getting tired from controlling her head. I was tired of kneeling and controlling her thrashing around. It would be so easy if they just stopped struggling, but the more netting I get off her, the worse the struggling gets.
@@Megabattie I can just imagine .. My arms got tired just watching you in the video, lol
Awe! Miss Winkie, hang in there!!!
Mrs. Winkie looks like a fighter...still sassy after a full-on wrestling match with Queen Meg! Lol! Lord willing she will continue to thrive. Thanks and God bless you Meg!
Prayers for complete recovery for Mrs. Winkie. 🙏💜🙏
Amazing deft work you do to untangle her from all that netting! It's as though she flew into the center and pulled it down around while twisting to try and free herself. Boy did her eyes light up at the grapes, lol. She was pissed and so hungry. TY for taking such good care of these tiny teddies-💞
🎉Happy new year Meg, all the best for 2022! 🎉I can't believe some evil 🤬 cut Mrs Winkie off of their netting and tossed her out of their garden, so cruel. Smh. Thank you MOP that called it in. 🙏 Thanks for everything you do for these beautiful batties Meg. ❤️🦇 I hope she manages to make a full recovery. Blessings from Scotland. 🙏🏴🌹
Amazing job, that net was pure chaos.
Well that has to be one of her longest netting rescues I've seen for a while and the most amount of netting, tangled everywhere😧 Lovely members of public asking questions etc and offering to hold the end of the netting so you could snip snip away. Mrs Winkie has to be one of the most cranky batties I have seen for a while. I do love the way they have their head under one end of the blanket whilst you are dealing with he over end, then suddenly the head appears somewhere you think it can't get to, almost they are saying with their eyes, AH HA!!! you thought you had got me BUT I AM BACK FOR MORE BITETY BITEY😂. Fingers crossed she can recover fully from the horrible netting injuries🤞Still can't understand these people who just cut the bat out of the netting then chuck it over the fence😡
Such a good team work to free from such a horrible entanglement the poor Mrs W.
Ugh, what a nightmare. Poor you and poor Mrs Winkie. Fingers crossed that she'll make it through the healing process. Thanks, so much, Meg ( and the MOP who stayed around and seemed genuinely concerbed).This bloody netting needs to be outlawed and anyone selling it should have their licence taken away.
The 2 MOPs who found her were genuinely very concerned. They have since called to see how Mrs Winkie is doing
Miss Winkie is quite lovely as well as cranky lol. Pulling for her to pull through. Tyfs God bless you
The best of a worst case. Thank you for not giving up. When will people learn that we share this world and the other inhabitants are not at our disposal or trash?
WOOOW 😱🦇 BAT BIG 🦇⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🤗💙
The adult males are generally larger. She only weighed around 700 grams - the big boys can weigh a kilogram and have a wingspan of over a metre.
Good luck sweetheart girl!!💞💞💞🦇🦇🦇
Mrs. Winnie has the sweetest face, and I really felt sorry for her when the circulation started to come back…that is SO painful. I hate that netting with a passion, and I will NEVER understand how people can be so callous to a living creature as to cut them out of the net and just toss them with no care for their pain or survival. The MOPs were lovely and helpful, and I really enjoyed how they were rooting for the bat, who owes her survival to their having done the right thing and calling her in. I know how much you hate these netting cases, but you really do a good job with them. I’m glad she is going to make it, and has settled in care, when I saw how badly she was tangled I wasn’t sure she would survive this. It’s nice to know she is keeping company with your previous patient. 🥂🥂🖤🇨🇦
I thought she'd probably die overnight from the stress and from renal failure, given how thrashy she was.
I was surprised that she survived and subsequently has done really well, considering what she has to work with.
So glad someone cared enough to call and wait for you. Poor sweet battie was scared. I love your video glasses joke 😎 Yes, hang in there Mrs. Winkie.
Mrs Winkie is actually doing OK still and is on track for release via the release aviary in the next female release cycle (it is just coming up to breeding season so we do separate releases so the girls don't get harassed when in a captive situation)
Meg, you angel, you're so patient with both the little batty and the MOP. I think the MOP would be harder. Love your videos.
The MOPs were fine. They were helpful; they didn't try to help unless I asked them to do something. One MOP videoed and the other grabbed the tail of the netting for me to help me in the latter stages (when I asked him).
Good luck Mrs Winkie 🍀🍀🍀
That was a lot of work. Good job persevering through all of that. Hang in there Mrs. Winkie.
So unfair, so sad. Thank you Meg for caring and sharing, and trying to get people to do the right thing. 🇨🇦🦇🍁🐘💙
Good job.
Mrs. Crankypants Winkie is lucky she got rescued quick. Also, after watching you wrangle bats for a couple/three years, I sincerely believe that you couple successfully wrestle an 18' salty and come out unscathed! 🦇🦇🦇😆
Happy New Year!
"Couple" should be "could". 😒😒
LOL I guessed autocorrect had a hand in the couple/could.
I don't think I'd do salties - I would get muddy and I might damage my manicure.
Get well, Mrs. Winkie, and Thank You, Meg, for giving her the chance to heal and fly away free again.
Ahh nice rescue, so glad when I read the description and don't see those horrible RIP letter at the bottom.
This girl Is very cranky!!! She even tried to escape!! I Adore her yelling at you!! ( I Remember Banshees) i' m glad to know She Is doing well
Don't know how I missed this video when it posted, but this is the worst entanglement I have ever seen you work through. BRAVO! Thanks for your patience and I'm so glad Mrs. Winkie (who really did wink a lot) made it. WHEW
Some are done up like a dog's dinner - almost mummified in their wraps
Poor little girl just know what to expect!❤️🦇🇨🇦
At least she survived and was released; she had a horrible entanglement and was a lucky survivor.
Lovely MoPs, and a pox on whatever callous bastard cut her loose and left her to die! Glad she's on the mend at least. I was half-expecting to see an RIP in the description after seeing how badly she was tangled in that super-awful stuff. >_
Meg doesn't have much patience? Well what a revelation, we would never have guessed that, lol.
If this was a human child I would just have walked away and told other humans to deal with it.
I don't do human children.
That is the most horrible entanglement. It just goes on and on.
At least THIS TIME you didn't have to climb barely stable ladders, juggling nets, tree trimmers and other miscellaneous equipment, in order to reach the entrapped little darling. I do hope her injuries are mostly superficial.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, Meg. Wishing all your rescues in 2022 will be survivors!
Blessings!!
Poor Mrs Winkie, what a dreadful ordeal. Sending positive vibes for a full recovery. Many thanks for your hard work in freeing her Meg and to the helpful MOPs who called it in and helped out. I won't voice my opinion about the rotten b****** who threw her away like garbage, I just hope they see the error of their ways.
Another amazing net rescue! 👏 👏 👏
I do hope Mrs Winkie survives and thrives. She deserves to. She definitely had a few words to say concerning her predicament! My goodness but you really could use about six arms on rescues like this one. Netting and barbed wire rescues have to be the worst. They should get rid of both. Well, the bad netting, anyway.
Poor Mrs. Winkie! I do so hope she does well! It hurts to see how much the bats are hurt with totally horrible netting. I love your humor and your compassion for even the crankiest of those with monumentally cranky pants. You have a real gift and so much wisdom in dealing with batties in distress. Have a wonderful New Year!🦇
It's not their fault that they've been caught and that they're in pain and cranky. I perfectly understand and am prepared to accommodate them.
However, if it was a human infant I would not be so patient or compassionate.
Oh dear Mrs. Winkie! Meg,dearest friend,my heart just sank when I saw the precious little girl wrapped up in that nasty net. Meg darling,thank you SO much for helping these treasures.🦇
Happy 2022 🐞🍀
What awful netting! And people letting entangled bats go need a kick up their backside.
Poor girl, I hope she heals enough wing membrane to be relased.
If I'd seen that happen and knew for sure that it was the people behind the fence, I would have reported them to the RSPCA for animal cruelty.
Definitely.
A second pair of hands would be nice. A belated Christmas wish. 🎄🎁🎀
That's very cruel to do that to a beautiful flying fox like Mrs Winkie because she is one of God's creature ❤ 💙 ♥
Meg is amazing! She's a true hero.
Amazing how good you are with them!
Phew! I'm absolutely worn out after watching that! You are a hero and I totally agree with your remark about the kid in a carseat. I hope there will be good news about her progress.
Happy New Year to you and Maggie and all the other rescuers....
Wrangling human children into car seats are a personal nightmare scenario, along with gymnasiums full of sweaty people with intense pained faces with doofdoof music playing loudly
@@Megabattie The fact that I understand exactly what doofdoof music is must mean it's a personal nightmare of mine too. Thanks for the laugh and the new term!
@@erin1135 Can't stand the sound - as far as I'm concerned, doofdoof is noise not music
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Have you ever tried a strap cutter? The US military uses them alot. The blade is deep inside a groove so it's difficult to cut yourself or others but easy to cut things like line, straps, netting.
As I said - the scissors I use are perfect for purpose.
I have tried shade cloth cutters and bandage scissors, but I need something to precision cut one strand of netting at a time as well as bulk netting, and these particular scissors are what I consider fit for purpose.
Bandage scissors will only cut think entanglements. Shade cloth cutters won't cut thick entanglements and need tension on the net in order to cut.
These little scissors do both thick and thin entanglements and precision cut, and are curved so for delicate areas I can angle the curves to cut away from the body.
I’m so glad she’s made it this far! You definitely have the patience of Job, Meg. I would’ve been beside myself much earlier, especially with her trying to thrash around!! Good on both of you! ❤️👍🏻❤️🦇❤️
The more you get them out, the more thrashy they become.
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She's got a attitude. I wish her well.
hurtful to watch.
feel so sorry for the bumblebabee....
thanx for your effort and patience ;)
i hope her wings will heal if that is possible.
by the way
HAPPY NEW YEAR
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holy cow.... just read you think someone threw her away like that....
mean people.
Yes, I think they wrapped the bat in a thick towel and cute all the netting away in a big circle around her, then just chucked her over the fence. She couldn't have gotten far in that condition, so I think they just threw her away
With all the issues Australia has with trying to save the wildlife , they should just make this horrible torture netting illegal! I've started to hate people more and more this past year... after seeing this kind of stuff, dogs thrown into glue tortoise painted and various pets put in plastic bags and thrown into rivers to drown! No wonder God is angry! I'm glad this little one survived so far! 😇❤🖤🦇🖤❤
I like having the MOP cam, it gives us more perspective of you which is a lovely change, even if this one was weirdly blurry.
I think this one was almost the worst entanglement I've seen you remove, although I remember a white netting incident that sticks out as top. I was desperate to get one of those long handle grabber tools and help you through the lens. You did an amazing job.
I'd be exactly the same with the child in a carseat; no thanks, I don't do kids. 🤣
Human children are loud, irrational and grow extra limbs or add extra weight when they need to be uncooperative. And they have always left a trail of possessions behind them - a shoe or a favourite toy, and if they can reach one of their siblings they will bash them on the way past to add a new level of mayhem to the whole wrangling thing.
I can't do human children. I am not a saint.
@@Megabattie 🤣🤣 Nor me. Never understood the desire have them. They're noisy, life-long demanding, expensive , you don't get to choose which one you get and you can't rehome them if you don't like them.
@@wonderwend1 It may have been right for me once in my life but I don't regret nothing having any kids.
@@Megabattie neither do I. I wanted my tubes tied at 18 and they wouldn't let me.
@@wonderwend1 It may have been the right thing for me once, but I'm glad I didn't go that path. I would have learned to deal with the frustrations of human children, but looking back I don't feel I've missed out on anything.
I believe that every person who's able should do something to help members of their own species and those of another species; I raise and aid butterflies and bees. Thank you for what you do for the bats every day. You must make up for about 20 other people who don't care for any other living creatures.
It's good someone is working on the butterflies and bees. If that was my rescue passion, I'd have nothing to do every day, because I rarely see bees or butterflies here.
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This rescue truly shocked me! The amount of netting she had managed to wrap herself in was exceedingly appalling! I am no longer surprised at the cruelty of human beings, ( I've seen a fair bit of it) but this to me was blatantly callous..
Yes blatantly callous, which is fairly typical of people wanting to get rid of their problem.