He came into care at 11.55pm New Years Eve 2000. hence his name "Tooth" (Two-th).

A group of partying country folk were sitting on their verandah celebrating.   Below them was their rather large dam in which they were watching a "water rat" swimming along.   They began to realise that the rat was not expert in the swimming department and after they had watched it go under water for the third time they decided to investigate. The "rat" was a just furred pademelon.

A phone call was made to me and the remainder of New years eve was spent with a car full of party goers driving down the mountain to deliver the shocked, freezing pademelon into care.

It was an immediate hair dryer job to get him dry enough to start the warm up process. He was given warm water and glucose and after settling him down, I resigned myself to the fact that I could spend the first day of the year 2000 burying a macropod.

To my delight he was hale and alert the following morning, took to his bottle like a pro and never looked back.

He had a penchant for eating electrical cords and to this day we have many cords taped together....called "Tooth Floss"!

Story recounted by Lina Basile