Despite everything, Bárbara Sanz remains calm and in good spirits. And it is not easy. The family of this 35-year-old image consultant, married and with three children, including a little girl barely two years old, is going through an ordeal in their own home, in the center of Sabadell. The house of their dreams, a magnificent renovated home that has preserved many of the elements of the original from two centuries ago, hid a secret that is disrupting them. A few months ago, they discovered that behind the partition of one of the walls in the master bedroom, a colony of bats had taken hold and is growing day by day, with the inconveniences that entails. Bats are protected animals, and that is why the Generalitat of Catalonia offers them as the only solution to “move house” until the animals’ breeding season ends and they can be safely removed.
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“And who protects us, my family?” she asks anxiously. Her story became known last Friday on the program El Món a Rac1. And this Monday, the woman received La Vanguardia to insist on a problem that no one solves. “I am a committed animal lover. I do not want those animals to be mistreated, not at all. Neither I nor anyone in my family. But I have a small daughter whom I have to protect, and the administration itself warns me to be careful because bat droppings are very toxic and can be dangerous for young children,” she explains angrily.
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They discovered they were not alone in the house a couple of months ago. One night, the woman was reading in bed in her spacious room when she heard some squeals and footsteps. “We were a bit surprised because this house is English design, the rooms are very airtight, and if we heard that noise, there had to be someone nearby,” she says. They searched, unsuccessfully, but the noises kept increasing. They suspected there might be a rat infestation hidden in some duct and called a pest control company. The technician opened a small hole next to the suspicious partition, and as soon as he glimpsed that those tenants were bats and not rats, he backed off. “Ma’am, these creatures are sacred. We can’t do anything. We’re leaving,” they told her.
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We only ask that they take them away; it cannot be that the only solution they give us is to move house until the breeding period ends”
And here the woman’s ordeal began. She called all the administrations, and they agreed on the need to wait because they cannot be touched. Over the weekend, some technicians from the Granollers Natural Science Museum came and helped her remove some of the bat carcasses, which die from the great heat behind that wall.
“I only ask that they take them away now. Because that partition is not a good place for them either,” she insists. That room is unusable due to the risk of bats and the stench that surrounds it. She also cannot turn on the air conditioning because if she does, the smell would spread to the rest of the house. “We can’t even go on vacation and leave it like this because who knows how it will evolve. And we have already been warned that if they leave the current space and sneak into the rest of the house, the problem will multiply greatly.”
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