Hi, my name is Nat. I'm a wildlife carer.
I live on a 50-acre property in Pelverata in southern Tasmania.
I've been doing wildlife caring for nearly 10 years now.
As a kid, I always wanted to be a veterinarian.
So I've always had that love of animals and being able to do
that, do the wildlife caring, you know, you get a lot of
reward yourself, you know?
They give you a lot love back.
So in here, we have little Paddy Melon.
She's about six months old, and she's gonna have her bottle in a
minute, but I just have to toilet her first.
To be a wildlife carer, you need to go and do a wildlife carers
course, which is usually held over two or three days.
I run an organization called Tasmanian Animal Rescue,
Rehabilitation and Education Services.
We run educational courses and we actually tailor them to suit
the needs of whoever needs them done.
This is Richard.
Richard came to us a couple of years ago, with some retained
shed on his eye, and unfortunately had to have his ey
moved.
His recovery took a little bit long and he was not able to be
released into the wild.
So he stayed with us now.
He's a lovely, placid, little boy.
They're not all like this, but this one's very quiet, beautiful
tiger snake.
I think that are most upsetting things are when you've spent a
lot of time raising an animal, you might have even spent, you
know, a year or more raising an animal and then something
happens to it.
So this little Joey just came in, was found last night by
members of the public.
So they just got for just starting to come through.
I can't see any obvious injuries on him, but he does look a
little bit dehydrated.
So he's gonna need some subcutaneous fluids.
I've been with the ambulance service around 24 years I think,
in different roles.
As a volunteer, as an ambulance officer and as an intensive care
paramedic and branch station officer.
While I'm not trained specifically in animals and as a
vet, I can still manage to do some of the smaller stuff, and
then we take them to a vet for anything that we can't do here
that requires veterinary attention.
He's a brave, little boy.
So, just gonna give her a bottle now.
We might just bring her head out and cover up your eyes, with
just a little nose and mouth out.
We want to not be to humanized.
Ebony! Bottle time.
So I have to get up every three hours for this little one.
Right around the clock so during the night as well just like a
human baby.
It's a great feeling when you are able to release an animal
back into the wild when it's successfully rehabilitated and
is able to survive and reproduce out in the wild.
It just feels feels great to know that you've done your job
properly.