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Timing is everything
WIRES volunteer, Sara was bushwalking with friends in the Capertee Valley, a week or so ago.
On the drive home they saw a Red-necked wallaby lying in the middle of
the road, bleeding. Sara says that sadly she was dead, only very
recently hit by a passing vehicle.
As Sara went to check the pouch she saw two frantic little paws scrabbling around and a crying noise.
It was 3 degrees celsius and just starting to snow, so it was very lucky they had arrived on the scene and found him so quickly.
Doubly lucky says Sara, as because it was so cold and they had a long
drive back to Sydney, we'd filled our drink bottles with hot water - so I
made him a little incubator with a towel/cardboard box/hot water
bottles.
We stopped at a cafe on the way home to get the bottle re-filled with
hot water which was very kind of them. After a full check up Sara took
him into care.
He now lives in a pouch with controlled heating, gets fed every 4 hours,
on a special marsupial replacement milk formula - and is making very
good use of all the pouch liners and knitted pouches that people so
generously make and donate to WIRES. Sara says she keeps him as clean as
she can so the pouch liners need to be changed fairly frequently!
He is putting on weight and will soon need to go back to a carer in an
area where there are red-necked wallabies so that when the time comes
for him to be released, he will be in the right place.
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