A tiny koala has been nursed back to health with her very own cast after injuring her arm by falling from a tree.
Heartbreakingly, her mother didn’t survive the fall, with her injuries being so severe that the vet made the decision to euthanise her.
However, the baby koala was rescued and the vets have done everything they can to make her healthy again.
The baby was rescued and brought to the vets of Werribee Zoo, when her chances of survival seemed slim.
Werribee Vet Nurse Jess Rice told Bored Panda: ‘It was really touch and go when she was brought to us.
‘She was just at the stage where she would have been starting to poke her head out of mum’s pouch. Joeys that size don’t have a good survival rate in care.’
An X-ray of the koala showed that she had a fractured arm, and so she was given an adorable cast and she was looked after very closely.
Since, she has recovered her strength and has put on some weight and has even been released back to a specialist wildlife carer.
Jess said: ‘It will be more than a year before she’s old enough to be released into the wild, so she needs to be with a carer with the resources to take care of her for that long.’
Since being re-released, the baby koala’s story has been shared on Facebook alongside some adorable photos, and people have been commenting to say how happy they are that she’s all better.
One person said: ‘That little cast would fit approximately one name on it’.
Another said: ‘Sweet little teddy bear’.
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source https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/14/rescue-baby-koala-given-the-cutest-little-arm-cast-after-falling-from-a-tree-10902434/
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