Burra Red Neck Wallaby 15th september 2020
Burra Red Neck Wallaby 15th september 2020
In care over over almost 3 months
Buru the Adult male red neck wallaby has a second chance in life thanks to Dr Howard Ralph and team his foot has an infection and bones out of alignment, well enough to be his finish. Caughht it in a cattle grate the landowner said.
Diary:
We have him in care now for a little while as he will slowly get better and be released back where he came from, wild again. Hes a big boy at 19 kg and he's a very calm fellow so ideal for being helped. He will move from ICU (inside house) to the macropod shed then exercise in the attached kangaroo enclosure till hes ready to go wounds healed and needs to get fit again. Lovely boy
He had a canula in his tail and twic daily antibiotics etc Warwick tempted him with his favourite nibbles while gave the medicines.
So what weighs 21 kg has along tail and can fly over fences from a standing jump!! That's right Buru feeling a bit better. So his foot is all in position now and granulating (healing) from the inside, just got to get infections under control. Hes not impressed with all the injections!
Big day tomorrow for Buru 20kg adult red neck wallaby, after 3 weeks in ICU, pain relief, antibiotics and as much grass and browse as he can eat, he's looking a bit better and tomorrow his foot gets reconstructed by Dr Howard Ralph and his amazing team. Will be a long day for us both. Burra had fortnightly 2.5 hour trips to Dr Howards Clinic near Braidwood and generally lay strtched out sleeping on out foam travel pad.
Big day tomorrow for Buru 20kg adult red neck wallaby, after 3 weeks in ICU, pain relief, antibiotics and as much grass and browse as he can eat, he's looking a bit better and tomorrow his foot gets reconstructed by Dr Howard Ralph and his amazing team. Will be a long day for us both. Burra had fortnightly 2.5 hour trips to Dr Howards Clinic near Braidwood and generally lay strtched out sleeping on out foam travel pad.
One memorable trip he woke up (he had had a prescribed dose of valium) a third of the way into the trip and went mental, standing up on tail arms braced against the car roof kicking . Lucky i had phone reception and 'just give im X amount more diazepam' Yes right this will be interesting managed to call a retired wildlife carer whom was game to help tackle down a 21kg male wallaby off his head so I could inject him. We managed and waited till he was out for the count again to continue the trip. Apparently it can be a fine line in sedation.
