I'm not impressed

Well, we found Veg.......with her neck half slit open, right down to the muscle and more. The only way she could have gotten an injury so severe is if a car has hit her and driven off. How she is still alive, I don't know. To the arsehole who hit her (it would have been around the property gate), all they had to do was come and tell us. So for 3-4 weeks, Veg has been trying to get back to the house for help.

She was rushed to the best vet in the world, Joseph at Gundaroo Vet Clinic and was in surgery for 1.5 hours. Watching Joseph clean out the wound, cut what he had to out and then try and stitch was just incredible. How he managed to stitch her up, I do not know and wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't been there. Worse still, we discovered that her baby wombat in her pouch is alive and well, about 2 months so Veg has to pull through. The wombat joey is far too young for us to raise, only a wombat can do that so if Veg dies, so will her joey.

She is in the house at the moment, in the wombat room at the back, still heavily sedated from the operation. The next 10 days will be critical for her. She has to be kept in a sterile environment and we can only hope that no infection gets into the huge wound.

What I find amazing is if a human had their neck slashed down to the muscle, about 20cm long, 10cm wide, there is no way in the world they would be standing and yet this wombat has made it for 3-4 weeks to get back home for help. Can you imagine the pain she would have been in???  So she will be monitored 24/7 now.

Miss G is recovering. Her wounds are healing slowly but she will still  be minus one ear at least. As for the rest of her, her hair will eventually grow back over the scars. She is wanting to go outside for a few hours each day but cannot during the afternoon as she cannot go in the sun but try explaining that to a compulsive stubborn animal that is feeling slightly better!

So, another not so quiet week so far, wondering what the weekend will entail.