Phoebe’s family

Hi everyone!  I want to tell you about my new brother Rastus, and sister Alice. Rastus weighs over 16kg, is about 28 months old and has been with my new mum and dad for 2 years. From now on he is ready to go back into the bush to live and find
himself a lady friend.  He did take himself into the bush for 6 days, my mum and dad really missed him but were really happy that he was doing what they had raised him to do – be free and a real wombat in the wild.  He came back unexpectedly 6 days later, exhausted.  He slept solidly for 1 ½ days.  He did not think he was ready to go yet and now he goes out every night and comes back to bed every morning.

Alice is about 15 months old and has been with my new family for 12 months. She and Rastus love each other as they have become buddies since growing up together even though there is an age difference.

Alice and Rastus, eat grass together, play outside and sleep together, cuddling and
snuggling up together.  Rastus is very protective of Aliceand looks after her when they are out together during the day.

 

My new mum thinks Rastus will go back into the bush when Alice is old enough to be his breeding partner unless he meets another lady wombat before then.  Rastus and Alice do not drink milk now but love native grasses and mum gives them carrots which they love. (It is safe to feed them carrots here because we are far enough away from tree plantations that
throw out 1080 poisoned carrots to kill all native wildlife).

 

Ihave met Alice and we gave each other a little kiss.  My mum does not leave me alone with Rastus and Alice as they may be jealous of me taking my new mum away from them and accidentally hurt me.

 

If Rastus goes back into the bush without Alice, I reckon her and I will be great buddies just like her and Rastus are.

 

We are truly a part of the family here, we are not caged but live inside in a huge
bucket filled with warm, woolly blankets.  We will decide when it is time for us to go back into the bush to live with our mum and dad’s blessing.  So until then we have a happy, loving home.  How lucky we are to have been given a second chance.

 

Over the next couple of months we will get more orphaned wallabies because their
mum’s forget that their joeys are heavy now as they have grown bigger and get
hit with cars as they cannot run across the road fast enough. We all wish this
did not happen but they too will be welcomed into our happy little home.