Woman tries everything to save a wombat who refuses to be touched — and it's so worth it the moment she decides to play and be happy
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00:00She nearly took my arm off at the elbow, couldn't get close to her.
00:15She would have been attacked so badly by other wombats, all I could do was spray her wounds
00:19with an antiseptic.
00:20I just needed her to trust me enough so that I could manage her injuries and help her to
00:28recover.
00:39The first time she showed me that trust was when she invited me to scratch her belly.
00:45They need to be physically big enough to defend themselves in the wild.
00:50She knows when I'm going to weigh her and she doesn't like to be picked up.
00:53It's like having a short, fat toddler.
01:15Wombats have got no handles, they're like a football shape.
01:20You must have put on weight this week, 16 kilos.
01:28Now you get on yourself.
01:50She's actually gaining enough weight now, 17.4 kilos, yay!
01:54I'm optimistic that she'll be released in a few weeks.
02:00The biggest sign that she had recovered for me was that she began to show signs of being
02:05happy.
02:09And the head shake, which is sort of like, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, you can't catch me.
02:16This is Marinda's last graze in our garden.
02:26We're very shortly going to load her into the car and take her out to her release site.
02:33This is it, we're here, you're not ready, come on, Marinda, I'm not carrying you.
02:42Marinda is a Gadigal word for beautiful, so we were optimistic when we named her Marinda.