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Amaris Wildlife Sanctuary

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25.01.2022 No Coco Mummy didn't have your weetbix for breakfast this morning, but I will still share

24.01.2022 Kangaroo sisters

24.01.2022 We are soooo excited to announce that The Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife (FNPW) Wildlife Heroes has selected our project Building a Wildlife Rehabilitation Sanctuary for funding through the Wildlife Heroes Large Durable Asset Grants. Thanks to the Australian Government’s Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation initiative and Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife fundraising This grant will enable us to build a large multi purpose enclosure to safely rehabilitate a variety of injured and orphaned wildlife. It will also be a safe space to care for wildlife while waiting transport to more experienced caring facilities.

23.01.2022 Jaffa cuddled up with her teddy bear

23.01.2022 Introducing Jaffa to the pen

20.01.2022 A quick clean and change the sheets while the bub is out

20.01.2022 Every 3rd week is Joey Treat night. Thanks to SUPA IGA North Road

17.01.2022 Mummy said no more hay in the house. So we got kangaroo paw flowers instead

14.01.2022 So we were all snug in bed then Mummy took us out into the cold to get some "'exercise," ????

14.01.2022 Some useful information I found shared by a friend. Worth a read That bite of summer has well and truly come early this year and with that heat, comes snakes. ...This article was written by Rob Timmings Rob runs a medical/nursing education business Teaching nurses, doctors and paramedics. It’s well worth the read #ECT4Health 3000 bites are reported annually. 300-500 hospitalisations 2-3 deaths annually. Average time to death is 12 hours. The urban myth that you are bitten in the yard and die before you can walk from your chook pen back to the house is a load of rubbish. While not new, the management of snake bite (like a flood/fire evacuation plan or CPR) should be refreshed each season. Let’s start with a Basic overview. There are five genus of snakes that will harm us (seriously) Browns, Blacks, Adders, Tigers and Taipans. All snake venom is made up of huge proteins (like egg white). When bitten, a snake injects some venom into the meat of your limb (NOT into your blood). This venom can not be absorbed into the blood stream from the bite site. It travels in a fluid transport system in your body called the lymphatic system (not the blood stream). Now this fluid (lymph) is moved differently to blood. Your heart pumps blood around, so even when you are lying dead still, your blood still circulates around the body. Lymph fluid is different. It moves around with physical muscle movement like bending your arm, bending knees, wriggling fingers and toes, walking/exercise etc. Now here is the thing. Lymph fluid becomes blood after these lymph vessels converge to form one of two large vessels (lymphatic trunks)which are connected to veins at the base of the neck. Back to the snake bite site. When bitten, the venom has been injected into this lymph fluid (which makes up the bulk of the water in your tissues). The only way that the venom can get into your blood stream is to be moved from the bite site in the lymphatic vessels. The only way to do this is to physically move the limbs that were bitten. Stay still!!! Venom can’t move if the victim doesn’t move. Stay still!! Remember people are not bitten into their blood stream. In the 1980s a technique called Pressure immobilisation bandaging was developed to further retard venom movement. It completely stops venom /lymph transport toward the blood stream. A firm roll bandage is applied directly over the bite site (don’t wash the area). Technique: Three steps: keep them still Step 1 Apply a bandage over the bite site, to an area about 10cm above and below the bite. Step 2: Then using another elastic roller bandage, apply a firm wrap from Fingers/toes all the way to the armpit/groin. The bandage needs to be firm, but not so tight that it causes fingers or toes to turn purple or white. About the tension of a sprain bandage. Step 3: Splint the limb so the patient can’t walk or bend the limb. Do nots: Do not cut, incise or suck the venom. Do not EVER use a tourniquet Don’t remove the shirt or pants - just bandage over the top of clothing. Remember movement (like wriggling out of a shirt or pants) causes venom movement. DO NOT try to catch, kill or identify the snake!!! This is important. In hospital we NO LONGER NEED to know the type of snake; it doesn’t change treatment. 5 years ago we would do a test on the bite, blood or urine to identify the snake so the correct anti venom can be used. BUT NOW... we don’t do this. Our new Antivenom neutralises the venoms of all the 5 listed snake genus, so it doesn’t matter what snake bit the patient. Read that again- one injection for all snakes! Polyvalent is our one shot wonder, stocked in all hospitals, so most hospitals no longer stock specific Antivenins. Australian snakes tend to have 3 main effects in differing degrees. Bleeding - internally and bruising. Muscles paralysed causing difficulty talking, moving & breathing. Pain In some snakes severe muscle pain in the limb, and days later the bite site can break down forming a nasty wound. Allergy to snakes is rarer than winning lotto twice. Final tips: not all bitten people are envenomated and only those starting to show symptoms above are given antivenom. Did I mention to stay still. ~Rob Timmings Kingston/Robe Health Advisory #vrarescue #snakebite

13.01.2022 Mummy said no more hay in the house...but.......

13.01.2022 Loving the sunny summer morning

13.01.2022 When a reporter comes to visit...forget interview just cuddle joeys. Great Southern Weekender Check out this weekends paper.

13.01.2022 So I may have left the door open this morning

11.01.2022 Yes Coco, that is wine, MY wine

10.01.2022 I'm sorry Coco, yes that was your weetbix Mummy had for breakfast.

10.01.2022 Cherish and Calle still best BFF's. When one goes walkabout the other gets so stressed and upset.

06.01.2022 A beautiful sunny morning. Its cold out but we are snug

04.01.2022 Content after morning bottle

03.01.2022 Morning run for Jaffa

02.01.2022 Mummy I jumped the fence last night and had fun, but now I want to come back in again. Please open the gate for me.

01.01.2022 Meet Peppa....a critically endangered ringtail possum