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Speaker 1: Jum mission with Jones and Amanda. You know, and all

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Speaker 1: this fails and it will I'm off to join the

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Speaker 1: Irwins Australia Zoo as a wildlife warrior.

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Speaker 2: Are you good with animals? I know you like your dog?

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well I wasn't sure, but I had an experience

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Speaker 1: on the weekend that's made me think, yes, I think

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Speaker 1: I can be Harley and I had walked gone for

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Speaker 1: a walk with the dog. We came back and out

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Speaker 1: the front of our neighbor's house on the grass verge.

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Speaker 1: The dog walked straight past it and notice hardly said,

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Speaker 1: have look at that? And this little face was looking

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Speaker 1: up at us. It was a little possum and its

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Speaker 1: back legs it was like it was lying on its

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Speaker 1: tummy looking up at us, but its back legs were

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Speaker 1: splayed out. It obviously is not a natural position for

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Speaker 1: a possum to be in.

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Speaker 2: Might have fallen out of tree, I think.

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Speaker 1: So it didn't look like it had been run over

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Speaker 1: because it hadn't. There's no blood and it hadn't, and

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Speaker 1: it would have had to get up over a curb

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Speaker 1: to get itself there. So I wasn't sure what happened,

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Speaker 1: and so I went inside and I phoned Wires. This

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Speaker 1: is a volunteer service. They are amazing wildlife rescue Wires.

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Speaker 2: No, I'm just trying to work out the acronym. Is

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Speaker 2: it one wires W I R E. Yes.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, call them if you see anything. And on the

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Speaker 1: answering machine it said, if it's about a snake, called

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Speaker 1: the press one. If it's about snake, yeah, if it's

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Speaker 1: about this press too. There's they cater for all creatures.

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Speaker 2: Because we have a lot of foreigner in this country.

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Speaker 2: There'll be a lot of options on you.

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Speaker 1: Right, and you can't just save the cute little ones.

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Speaker 1: You've got to save everything. Wire stands for what is it?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: There?

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Speaker 2: We go, thank you, thanks for being so quick with that.

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Speaker 1: So I pressed the button for possum and then I

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Speaker 1: spoke to someone who.

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Speaker 2: So there's a button for possums, Yes, there is what

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Speaker 2: numbers for possums?

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Speaker 1: Well, I just phone Wires and they said you're on hold,

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Speaker 1: and they say press one for snakes, spider, Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 1: And for was a possum, well whatever it was, and

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Speaker 1: so but she said to me, do you know what

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Speaker 1: kind of possum it is? Because if it's got a

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Speaker 1: big bushy tails. We don't suggest that you pick it

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Speaker 1: up and handle it. Yeah, they're terrible, yes, but the

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Speaker 1: ringtail possim, she said, did you see its tail? But

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Speaker 1: I knew that it had fine features and a pointer,

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Speaker 1: you know, so I knew it was a ringtail. And

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Speaker 1: so she suggested that they'd get a volunteer to come

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Speaker 1: and pick it up from our place, but she didn't

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Speaker 1: know how long they rely on volunteers. So what I

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Speaker 1: did was I went out the front and I had

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Speaker 1: some towels. Harley got the good cat towels. I said,

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Speaker 1: come on, Harley, he can't tell the difference. And I said, no,

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Speaker 1: we'll get these old, scrappy towels. And we picked it

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Speaker 1: up and put it into the laundry basket and brought

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Speaker 1: it inside.

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Speaker 2: That's nice.

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Speaker 1: And so then she texted back and said, look, we're

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Speaker 1: waiting for a volunteer to come around, but I have

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Speaker 1: located a vet not far from you who wires affiliated,

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Speaker 1: and if you could take it there, that would be great.

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Speaker 1: So I took it to the vet, and in the car,

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Speaker 1: I was just you know, because I'm slamming car doors

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Speaker 1: and things, and I'm trying to calm it down. It

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Speaker 1: was just sat there with his little beady eyes and

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Speaker 1: this cute little face looking out at me.

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Speaker 2: So you're calming it down by slamming doors.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to get into a car without that.

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Speaker 2: That's before you've even started driving.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm a good driver, Brendan. But its tail was

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Speaker 1: coming out. I put some pictures on my Instagram coming

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Speaker 1: out of the basket, the laundry basket. It put its

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Speaker 1: tail out, but it looked like I had a giant

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Speaker 1: kink in it, so I knew that it's from the

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Speaker 1: waist down. Things weren't great, so I calmly spoke to it,

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Speaker 1: drove to the vet, couldn't park it. The vet had

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Speaker 1: to park age. It looked like I was taking a

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Speaker 1: load of laundry to the laundromat. Went into the vet

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Speaker 1: and they were fantastic. They took it out the back

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Speaker 1: and I heard her go, oh, look at you. Oh.

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Speaker 1: Orge came and said he's got enormous testicles. That's how

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Speaker 1: we knew it was. She said it's a big male

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Speaker 1: his for his breed, because he looked like a tiny

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Speaker 1: little possum to me. But it was a big forg

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Speaker 1: set had a big set that she mentioned, so I

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Speaker 1: thought they she probably sees a lot. They must have

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Speaker 1: been impressive and couldn't work out what had happened. She said,

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Speaker 1: he didn't show signs of a car accident and things,

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Speaker 1: and he may have fallen out of a tree and

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Speaker 1: got paralyzed. She said there are a couple of options.

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Speaker 1: They would keep him on fluids and then the chief

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Speaker 1: possum wrangler from Wires would come and have a look

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Speaker 1: at him, and if he was paralyzed and there was

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Speaker 1: no hope, they'd have to put him down destroy So

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Speaker 1: I got a text from them yesterday and aren't they

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Speaker 1: lovely to follow up? Thank you for helping. This is

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Speaker 1: from the Wires people. Thank you for helping the ringtail

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Speaker 1: posshum on Sunday and taking him to the vet. Sadly,

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Speaker 1: his front foot swelled up yesterday. We think from a burn,

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Speaker 1: maybe molten wax. Maybe he stepped on a barbecue or something.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, she said. I took him to my

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Speaker 1: vet this morning and sadly but decided he had too

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Speaker 1: many painful issues and he was put to sleep. She said,

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Speaker 1: not the outcome we were hoping for, and I'm sorry

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Speaker 1: I did shed a few tears. His name was.

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Speaker 2: Keller, Keller. I got a Keller.

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Speaker 1: After Helen Keller Brendan and I said, thank you for

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Speaker 1: letting me know. How do you think the wax got

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Speaker 1: on his foot? And she said, I don't know, maybe

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Speaker 1: a candle. It looked like his foot had stepped in it.

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Speaker 1: Then he'd slipped, maybe causing his hind leg issues. There

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Speaker 1: were some solid wax on his tail.

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Speaker 2: What sort of candle? Get? Was it a scented candle?

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Speaker 1: I don't have it. You sensitive enough about your own

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Speaker 1: cat earlier insensitive about this. I'm not being Keller has

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Speaker 1: been put to sleep.

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Speaker 2: You just joined the show. If you've just joined the.

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Speaker 1: Show, you'd be wondering on about.

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Speaker 2: It's a possible makes for a nice change, doesn't it.

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Speaker 2: Jonesy and Amanda's