000 (=911 in AU) koala rescue

My AU year is complete!!!!! This youthful little guy
(I discovered it was a boy because it had a scent gland stripe down his chest)
parked himself in at the front of the house. He drank like crazy after he figured
out how. Today was the first really hot day in the hills and he was
certainly unhappy about the heat. 

Usually Koalas don't drink as they get dew
off the eucalyptus leaves or from the moisture
in the actual leaf. He sat up to drink, but then sprawled out
in the road and had no energy. Kathy and Eddie, my
new friends, had just come around to test drive my car
to let their friend, an exchangee arriving in Dec., know
if it looks like a possibility (keep your fingers crossed).
Instead of heading home to tea, we became fast friends
when we geared into rescue mode. 

We called Fauna SA. They gave excellent insturctions of how
to snuggle him up and transport him to the Agucultural College
where the volunteers would get him into a vet.

Fauna Rescue SA - a volunteeer non-prrofit organsiation

Koala Lou (which I of course called him) snuggled into me
and calmly drifted into a relaxed state- missing mum perhaps.
I was a baby hog, as usual, barely letting my new friends
hold him.

Donald and his wife Anne have been rescuing koalas
for 18 years. He did not remember how many he had even rescued
today. One stuck out in his mind from around
Flinders Uni- just a baby. Tomorrow they plan to return
her since she seems well, to see if she can call out for
her mum and go back home.
Just as we were getting ready to go,
Donald had a call that another koala needed rescuing in Stirling. He
headed toward the hills hopefully for his last call of the night!
I send a huge shout out to the 18 volunteers at Fauna Rescue.

I was so excited that I shared the story with the students.
In turn they wrote recounts about the koala. This writer
has been studying in AU for 9 months and is eight. I'm proud.