{"id":16789,"date":"2019-04-01T14:26:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T14:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=16789"},"modified":"2019-04-01T14:26:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T14:26:26","slug":"bat-training-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=16789","title":{"rendered":"Bat Training Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=16791\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16791\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-16791\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/peg-bat-1024x407.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/peg-bat-1024x407.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/peg-bat-300x119.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/peg-bat-768x305.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Just before the season kicked off,* we had a joint cat care session with the North Bucks Bat Group , lewd and hosted by Rhona who is a member of both bat groups.<\/p>\n<p>We took cake and Bob did a session on IDing bats<\/p>\n<p>Dave who hand reared 14 infant bats, all but one of which survived;(a remarkably high survival rate) did a session on caring for infants, deploying a brilliant visual aid The Peg Bat to demonstrate as a method to avoid getting milk up the bat&#8217;s nose &#8211; a danger with doing a dropper. The bat gets such a good grip on the paintbrush that the milk\u00a0 cannot go down the wrong tube<\/p>\n<p>He apologised for not wearing gloves ,but BCT please note this was a peg not a bat!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 Sod&#8217;s law: We had a bat come into care the day before<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before the season kicked off,* we had a joint cat care session with the North Bucks Bat Group , lewd and hosted by Rhona who is a member of both bat groups. We took cake and Bob did a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=16789\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,591],"class_list":["post-16789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bat-care","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16793,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16789\/revisions\/16793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}