2- Slow Down everyone deserves to get home safely

Wombat joey Wollambie was found by a kind & caring family alone in the bush on the side of the road in the first week of January. The area is quite remote and there is generally not much traffic, except during school holidays as it leads to a long beach and holiday shacks. Wallambie only weighed 2kgs when he was found and he was covered in hundreds of ticks. His dead mum was spotted not far away and appeared to have died a couple of days before. Wallambie would have wandered around on his own for quite some time. He was very lucky that he was spotted just in time. When he was brought to me, I spent hours trying to remove all the ticks and I assessed him more thoroughly. He had ulcers in both eyes, probably from rolling over the gravel road when he got catapulted out of mum's pouch.. He also seemed quite lethargic. A trip to the vet confirmed that he was very anemic from all the ticks, the vet's diagnosis was guarded, but Wollambie deserved a second chance. Fast forward to today, Wollambie grew into a healthy mature wombat and he has been released at a safe, private bush property, away from the roads.

Back story and photographs by Susan Buetow