00:00My name's Jess and I run Canamaluka Wildlife Rehab. We have a fair few animals here at the
00:07moment and this is Roz. She came in the night before last after her mum was hit by a car.
00:14She's got a few broken teeth and a bit of a scuffed up face so she's not too keen to have
00:20a drink but she's getting there and she misses her mum a lot. It's pretty sad. It's sad to see
00:27them go through missing their mum. One of the reasons we do it is because we can provide
00:32some comfort in their time of need. In the room today we've got three wombats. We've got Roz here,
00:38we've got Eloise who we've had for quite some time since she was little and we've got Violet who's
00:48very little. She came in when she was pink but she's starting to grow for now. We've got four
00:53kangaroos. We've got Cordelia, we've got Twisty, we've got Kartoffeln who is named after a sack of
01:01potatoes by a German tourist and we've got Taylor who's named after Taylor Swift by my son who's a
01:09Swiftie. Well definitely one of the hardships is when wombats first come in they don't want to
01:13eat. They miss their mum too much so as you can see I'm having a bit of trouble feeding her at the
01:18moment. She'll eventually take the bottle and she'll eat but it does take a while to get them
01:24started. They often get really sad when they first come in and you have to give them comfort
01:32but they do get used to it eventually and they quite enjoy being in care after a while. They like
01:39each other's company. You see we see a lot of devastation. We see a lot of a lot of horrible
01:45horrible things. We see a lot of injuries. The toll it takes on us as carers is quite quite a lot
01:54quite high. It's quite it can be very traumatic. One of the best part about it is when you get to see
02:01them free in the wild when they go and you know that they're just going off to live their best
02:05life. You know all the hard work was worth it. They're meant for that. That's where they're meant
02:12to be. So that's what we do it for. In Tasmania if you find injured and orphaned wildlife the best
02:20thing to do is contact Bonnarum. We always say contact Bonnarum. They've got the 24-7 call line
02:27and then they will contact wildlife carers or rescuers as need be. They find the right people
02:33for the job and they've they've got they've got all the contacts there. Eventually the animals make
02:37their way to us or another wildlife carer based on their species. We're all we're all differently
02:44trained wildlife carers.
