IMPORTANT: The medical care of bats requires a lot of experience. Often severely injured animals can recover.  If you have no experience with bats, please bring the bat immedately to the next bat-expert. Never try to take care of a bat yourself. To care for bats needs much experience and special facilities you don't have. 

Please note that the natural defense behavior of bats, especially when the animals are in pain, can easily be confused with rabies symptoms.

For all medical questions about the bats, please contact Dr. Keil  - please do not hesitate to contact her:
Emergency Phone: 01573-0910222 

 (Consulting is free) 

Or contact directly Bat World Sanctuary 

The following notes are for bats experts only: 

We train the bats who are badly injured and have to stay a bit longer in our station, to feed themselves. So you take one bat and a worm and offer the worm to the bat.  

When the bat takes the worm, you get the next worm and offer it to the bat. With every worm you get the bat closer to the little bowl where the worms are in. Some bats are very good and start after a few seconds eating from the bowl, others need a couple of days or weeks to learn this.

It's very important to talk to the bats calmly, when they get trained, so they won't get afraid of the bowl and the worms in it. Bats from the same group you can train together so they can see how the clever ones eat from the bowl and they will learn it from their friends. Others of the group need to be trained and trained again.

The same with the food goes for the water. You start getting them water with a pipette and then get closer and closer to the waterbowl. 

Every bat in the station gets vitamins.  The dosing must be exact! 

The care of bats requires great thoroughness. Every day the bats get their supplies. Here you can see, for example, special foods, vitamins, medicine, minerals, cold-pressed rapeseed oil, cotton swabs and a scale. Each bat has an index card so that every animal gets the treatment our vet has prescribed. 

We recommend the book "The Rehabilitation and Captive Care of Insectivorous Bats" by Amanda Lollar. Here you can order the book.  

Please, click here.

For medical treatment information about bats please contact Bat World Sanctuary.