Little Bat

Today when I was walking home from work, I passed by a plastic cup on the side of the road. It was raining a bit, and I thought that the dark shape inside of it might have been a turtle. This obviously excited me because cute little turtles remind me of people I know, and I thought it'd be a nice chance to check up on a friend.
But it wasn't a turtle! It was a little bat, and I raised an eyebrow to look at it, the rain coating its small fur coat.

"Bat...? Are you okay?" No response
"Little bat! What's wrong?" I moved the cup gently and afterwards the bat gave me a little wiggle.
"Bat, what's going on?" No response
I then had this moral dilemma- if there is a little bat in a plastic cup, chances are it was not there by choice. So then did someone
a) put their pet bat there to hang out for a bit, in a plastic cup
b) find the bat and rescue it...in a plastic cup
c) hurt the bat and then leave it in a plastic cup?

Oh god it made me feel so anxious. So then should I
a) call animal control to save him- but maybe the person in scenario b already did
b) leave it there in case of scenario a
c) rescue the bat if scenario c was true

goshhh I just kept staring at him and asking him what was wrong. So then I moved the bat to the corner of the building where it seemed to be out of the rain. Do bats like rain? God what if it gets pneumonia-
I broke off a piece of my sandwich from work. A small piece of chicken because don't bat eats bugs so isn't chicken similar? And a small piece of bread in case that's easier for him to digest.

And then I thought about how I was a human, potentially interrupting the natural process of a bat's life-

but no natural process in a bat's life should land him in a plastic cup!
God I'm just another human that made this poor wild bat an urban bat!


I thought of Morgan, when she stepped on the chipmunk over the summer, and tried to resuscitate it... why are there sidewalks and why do both animals and people walk on them!

The world is a scary place.

Save the bats.
(And chipmunks)
(And my turtle friends)


love.love.love.