Baby Wombat's Week by Jackie French and Bruce Whatley

Chapter 2: treating bub (Named Teeny) first Usually doing a rescue or mange treatment with two wombats simultaneously is incredibly difficult. In this case they made it easy as bub wandered off and I was able to sneak up on her and give her treatment for sarcoptic mange. She looks bad but it can still be turned around. She is aware of me, no obvious wounds and no decaying smell of infection. As always I prefer my trusty extendable pole so I can get her gently and not have to chase her or scare h

On Sunday Harry took a turn for the worst very unexpectedly. Volunteers Helen and Shelby were helping feed the babies and noticed he wasn’t looking well and was hunched as if in a lot of pain. He was rushed to the vet who did a poo test and it turned out he has intestinal thrush. He also had a poo explosion and was severely dehydrated. Thrush is fairly common but can be life threatening and they go from ok to not ok almost in an instant. He was completely fine in the morning but 3 hours later wa

Holly had severe anxiety and it could be that she was traumatised from losing her mum and fending for herself, or something else like humans who did something to her. She was petrified of me, of Bugs and anything that comes near her. We have been working hard she and I, spending many hours together. She also has meds that help with anxiety and to my absolute delight, this is what happened. I picked her up and put her with me on the couch. She started zooming and playing. What I needed was for he