Joliet Woman Tangles With Rabid Bat In Her Kitchen
(CBS) -- A woman in a southwest suburb was in her kitchen when she discovered a rabid bat.
At first, Sandra Jimenez thought it was a bird in her Joliet kitchen last week. She called out to her friend for help.
"That's not no bird. It's a bat," her friend informed her.
Jimenez ran into a bedroom and closed the door. Animal control rushed over and removed the bat from the kitchen.
On that same block in Joliet, Ed Robinson saw a bat over the weekend.
"He was flying real wobbly like," Robinson tells CBS 2's Jim Williams.
It's bat season. You are more likely to see one in August and September. And Will County Animal Control has very strong recommendations for you, should you see a bat.
"Call animal control. Do not touch it. Do not handle it," Will County Animal Control Director Leroy Schild says.
Bats are deceptively dangerous, Schild says.
"Their teeth are very, very tiny. They can actually penetrate your skin and leave saliva within the wound, and the wound is so tiny you won't even see it," he says.
Sandra Jimenez just had rabies shots, and she's traumatized.
"If it happened to me in the daylight, it can happen to anybody," she says.