Sunday, February 10, 2013

Rescuing a Wombat

This post has nothing to do with scrapping (well not yet anyway, I might just have to do a layout with this photo).

As you may have read earlier on my posts my son and his family were evacuated from their camp site during the recent bushfires.  They had seven of their children, their dogs, cats and birds with them and made it home safely with nothing left behind.
Recently they returned to the general area to see the aftermath of where they’d been camping and they came across this huge wombat.  Scott approached carefully but the poor creature was so ill it didn’t move.  Scott’s wife dribbled water across the wombat’s nose and it drank slowly from the drips.  They realised the poor thing was no danger to them so Scott picked it up and drove it to the nearest vet, it turned out that there was a baby in the pouch and surprisingly it was alive.  The vet rang a wildlife carer and the wombat was collected to be cared for until it was re-hydrated and a satisfactory release area was found for it.
My son is looking a bit surprised or maybe the weight of the wombat was becoming a bit heavy.  I think they said it was about 40kg.

8 comments:

  1. I'm glad your family made it home safely! What a beautiful story of the wombat rescue. It makes me smile that there are such wonderful people in this world.

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  2. Oh I am so glad the story has a happy ending.. so many creatures lost in fires too... I love wombats, when we went to australia zoo I was so intrigued by them.. such funny things!! and that one looks like a whopper.. !! Good on your son for getting her to the care she needed!!

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  3. WOW! she is a BIG.... hopefully all is well now!

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  4. I am so glad they returned.... a reason, to help this precious Wombat. I've often wondered just how many of our beautiful animals have we lost recently in the fires, and also floods. Heart-breaking. It is nice to see 'happy' news....

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  5. What a lovely story! That wombat is huge!

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  6. WOW what a sad but happy ending story, if that make sense. Australia has really taken a beating once again with fire and storms so its great to hear something like this Sandra.

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  7. So glad he rescued the wombat..thumbs up for him...they are sooo cute!! :)

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