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