by Corona Man » Tue Sep 15, 2020 10:05 am
Not sure where to put this.
Wildlife Rescue
We were fairly convinced for the past few months we have a possum family living in a tree in our small backyard. The signs being droppings about the place. We don't leave food scraps or anything outside, so as not to encourage them.
On Sunday we returned from our 1 hours of exercise, to find our cat going bananas at the back sliding door. There was a tiny possum hoping about in our back yard. We just watched it through the window for about a half an hour, not exactly sure what to do. The little fella soon spotted us, and scurried over next to the fence, and sheltered. I was hoping it would just climb back up the tree in the corner of the yard. A few hours later the little fella hadn't moved.
Mrs C, called wildlife rescue, really just for a bit of advice. They sent a bloke around, who calmly walked over to it, and picked "her" up. A baby ringtail, that he said would not have been capable of climbing back up the tree. He said it's "Possum season" and he had rescued 10 yesterday. So the little lady possum was taken away to a wildlife sanctuary in Hurstbridge to be hand reared until big enough to be released into the wild.
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