Our story told by a 600 gram pinky that came into care...
Rambo....
I don't remember much of the day it happened, I was about 5 months of age weighing 600grm happily resting up in my warm pocket when there was a terrible noise and we went flying. As I got older my adoptive mum told me we were hit by a car on the road which caused my biological mum to be killed on impact. I was so little it was ex
tremely lucky that the person in the car stopped to check my mums pouch. If they hadn't, I would have perished in the cold that evening or birds of prey would have torn me from the pouch in the morning eating me alive. By the time I was brought into Wildcare ASP I was already cooling down and not feeling so good. It took so much time and love from my adoptive mum to get me drinking milk and starting to thrive. Being a pinky made me very frail and weak, getting through those first few months without my biological mom was very hard! Being so small makes me vulnerable to getting too hot or cold, makes it hard to learn to eat at first, and makes my small body very fragile. After 10 months and I know I am a survivor! Thanks to help from the vet and some dedicated human mums, I have now grown up to a fine young man, am fit and healthy, and preparing for release back into the wild. I know that I am big and strong now, and I like to try to boss around the other joeys that I've grown up with! A lot of people say that saving a pinky is a waste of time, but thank you for believing in me Wildcare Alice Springs! UPDATE.... Rambo has now been released back to the wild - good luck Rambo
