Jarake Wildlife Sanctuary, 10-4-25, Bega District News

Jarake Wildlife Sanctuary owner Marie Wynan gives milk to an orphaned baby wombat, Saffy.

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00:00so you've got to watch how much milk you have in there so she doesn't get too much at a time

00:10see her little fingers what's in the bottle see her little uh it's just a um a um

00:18divator like it is we're using so it's just like a masubile milk yeah see her little hands going

00:25because that would normally be a reaction to press up against that's right yeah to help the milk come

00:33out yeah that's what that little hand movement is yeah there you go yeah she's pressing to get the

00:40milk yeah that's so cute and marie what's her name safi s-a-f-f-y safi that seems sapphire

00:51because we got another one called jade and one called opal so she had to be sapphire safi

00:58yeah and how old she's about four five months old

01:03and and she's a rescue from the road yeah ray cut her out of the pouch yeah because the mom had

01:12been killed in road from and she was i saw the images she was bruised yeah she was very bruised

01:18and we didn't know if she was bleeding into her lungs and if she had spinal injury but she's been

01:23very lucky she's done really really really well yeah and how long is she going to be sharing your

01:29home two at least two years she'd be yeah she'd probably get another little buddy eventually and

01:38yeah see at least two years she'd be here and then we open the gate and she'd get out be released

01:461992 was our first orphan kangaroo so that's over 30 years ago

01:55and um when was it that wombats really got your heart do you think oh gosh early 2000 yeah

02:07it's uh yeah and now i remember we had a wombat coming literally coming up to us and die from

02:14mange and we just got oh my god we got to do something about mange

02:18you