The Fridge Incident
By Mitch Gilley It’s funny what you end up daydreaming about when you have to prepare a giant bin of fruit every day, the fruit bat’s nightly ration. For us, a huge refrigerator is close to the top of...
View ArticleMary Cummins Loses Motion to Quash Subpoena to her Bank Account
In the fall of 2012, approximate $4,300 was seized from Mary Cummins bank account and a subpoena for her account records was presented to her bank. Mary Cummins tried to stop our subpoena with a poorly...
View ArticleMoving in Baby Steps
By Mitch Gilley Well, it’s beginning. Many of you have tracked the progress of the new facility via our Facebook updates, but now the preliminary stages of moving in are underway. We’ll be operating at...
View ArticleMeet Our Staff
Megan Smith Megan Smith has been an animal advocate all of her life, adopting shelter dogs and volunteering for various animal rescue groups in the north central Texas area. She moved from Utah to...
View ArticleSettling in, Bat Style
By Mitch Gilley Most of you are aware of our big move to our new facility last August. By far most of the work was with the new enclosures, which I am extremely proud to have helped built. Not only …...
View ArticleGiving Them the Moon
By Mitch Gilley Despite my prediction that the impish Carollias (think Lil Drac) would be first, it was the ordinarily skittish Egyptians – with Peek-a-boo leading the charge – that flew the first...
View ArticleTheir Own Best Advocate
By Mitch Gilley Judging from the enthusiastic response on our Facebook page and the activity in our chat room, most of you will already be aware of the four bat cams streaming live 24/7 in the flight...
View ArticleMary Cummins Loses Final RO Appeal Against Lollar
As reported on July 11, 2013, Mary Cummins filed false police reports against Amanda Lollar, then used them to convince a judge into giving her a temporary restraining order (TRO) against Lollar in an...
View ArticleRestless
By Mitch Gilly We just released four male free-tailed bats who were overwintering with us at Bat World Sanctuary. They had been found trapped in buildings and grounded just as winter set in, so for...
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