ROSEBURG, Ore. -- A second Douglas County home is found with infestation.

First it was a Sutherlin home with rats.

Now a Roseburg house turns out to be full of bats.

Zebulun Gallagher said he bought a house on Mill Street as a gift for his mother, but he didn't realize it had hundreds of bats living in the attic.

Gallagher had no idea the bats were there, and he doesn't know what to do about them.

He's still living at the house and trying to clean it up as best as he can, but he said he and his mother Patty don't know where to turn.

For now, they are literally shoveling bat droppings out of the attic.

"We got 23 five gallon jugs, five gallon buckets out of there so far," he said. "This is just a couple of weeks worth of bat droppings. This is just what they've done in the past few weeks."

His mother, Patty Coffey, said they did have an inspection done before buying the home. The inspector told KPIC News that it was just a walk-through inspection, and the bats were not discovered at the time.

As it turns out, they can't just chase the bats away because they're protected since they are nesting in the attic.
 
KPIC news will follow up on this story Thursday and give you more details about what's being done to get get the bats out of the attic.