When Grady Halamicek felt something hovering around and biting his neck last week, he suspected something benign like a mosquito or a moth.
It wasn’t until the Loveland man saw blood dripping from two holes in his neck and found his dog, Starden, playing with a dead bat in the yard a couple of days later that he realized what he believes had actually happened outside his Boyd Lake home.
After connecting the dots a few days after the bite, Halamicek called the Larimer County Department of Health and Environment, which retrieved the dead bat and took it to a Colorado State University laboratory for a rabies test.
“It was hot,” Larimer County environmental health specialist Rich Grossman said in a phone message to Halamicek. “It was definitely a rabid bat. … There’s no question.”
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