Jenifer Brindley

Yellow-Bellied Glider - April 2012

This is our beautiful Yellow-Bellied Glider joey that had been in my care now for the last 3 weeks. She was found on the ground at Halfway Creek, having fallen from her mother's back and weighing only 93 grams.

After a slightly shaky start, she is now doing well with very good weight gains. She is sleeping in a little snug pouch I made for her and lapping milk from a small container.

She really is a little sweetie and such a pleasure and privilege to care for. Still a long road ahead till that final release date, so fingers crossed all goes well.

Snowy the Greater Glider - March 2009

Meet Snowy, a rare and beautiful Greater Glider. Snowy first came into my care just after Christmas, and his condition was of immediate concern. A young man had stopped to remove a fallen tree from a State Forest road and discovered Snowy beside the tree unable to move.

The following day I took Snowy to the Vets for an x ray and a broken back leg was diagnosed. Now, if he was to have any chance of survival and returning to the forest he would need surgery at a wildlife hospital. Phone calls were made and it was decided to take Snowy to the Currumbin Wildlife Hospital for assessment.

After a long and hot drive we arrived at the hospital mid morning and were seen by the Vet immediately. The x ray was checked and the surgery was planned for that very afternoon. I left Snowy in their capable hands and returned home to Maclean and all my other animals waiting to be fed.

Late that afternoon I received a call from the Vet to say the surgery went well and he was very optimistic for his recovery. Snowy then went home with a Tweed Valley carer so that he could stay close to the hospital. As the next two weeks passed Snowy refused to drink or eat and his condition deteriorated day by day. Several trips back to the hospital found no solution to his misery and today as I write this, Snowy is sleeping peacefully in his beautiful forest in heaven.

This job as a wildlife carer can be so sad.

Another Sad Loss - November 2007

This very handsome adult male Koala was found at the roadside in Ashby earlier this month.

His back leg was badly broken and infested with maggots. I suspect he had been struck by a car several days earlier and just left to die.

And a very painful and drawn out death it would have been too. Although we could not save his life we did alleviate his suffering.

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