tromboneliness

Ya, that's pretty standard. We have bats in the attic here, and once in a great while (it's happened twice in 8 years), one will get into our apartment -- the last time one got in, I killed it with a tennis racket (I know you're not supposed to do that, but the thing wouldn't fly out the window, so what was I supposed to do?). I would not even tell the vet about it, because their hands are tied by law -- as you found out, they are required to euthanize a cat that even might have come in contact with a rabid bat. So we just don't go there at all -- if we thought one of them had been exposed, we'd just lock them in a room and ride it out for a week or so until either they got sick or they didn't, and regulatory authorities need not be the wiser. But most bats aren't rabid anyway -- there's a lot of public hysteria about it, but it's not that common....

T