Since I never finished the Fred the Bat story...it did have a happy ending. Dear Hubby caught him with a box and tossed him gently into the night. Fred got his name from our daughter, coincidence it was her bus drivers name ??? We see him flying around every night at dusk, looping circles in the air filling up on mosquitos. YEAH good bat!!! But when you come in my house, all bets are off my friend. God's creatures are welcome to live outside, in the WILD, where they belong.