🦇 AIRY 🦇 Employees at a by-appointment hair boutique noticed a bat flying around in their salon in Mineral Wells, TX, and called us for help. By the time staff arrived, the little Mexican free-tailed had hidden herself away in the black rafters of the room. With the salon not being open during set hours, being able to regularly check on the bat wasn’t possible, so staff hoped that the little bat would find her way out the way she came in. After not hearing from the the salon several days later, imagine our surprise when we received a call a week later that an employee had found a bat grounded in the salon and had put the bat into a box. We rushed to retrieve that bat, hoping it was a different bat and not the one that we’d attempted to rescue 6 days before. The state of dehydration confirmed our fears - this certainly was the same little bat, now too weak from hunger and dehydration to continue flight. After arriving back at the sanctuary, we first hydrated little Airy and gave her a few drops of blended amino acids. An initial exam showed Airy to be healthy and uninjured, although severely underweight. After a couple of weeks of good food and flight practice, we were thrilled to return Airy to the night skies.