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A couple of pics that need no words by kazzzz on 10 February 2009 9:03am

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/gallery/0,22010,5037339-5006020-44,00.html

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/gallery/0,22010,5037339-5006020-65,00.html

You might have to cut and paste them:)

Re: A couple of pics that need no words by peripatetically on 10 February 2009 12:56pm

They both told me the page wasns't found. But if they are anything like the one you sent me personally..... it's terribly heartbreaking...

Re: A couple of pics that need no words by suzulu on 10 February 2009 1:10pm

I managed to get into the pictures by typing the whole link in the address book.

It is so awful.

Re: A couple of pics that need no words by kazzzz on 11 February 2009 11:28am

Ohh OK. For those who can't nsee them, one is a koala sitting holding a firefighter's hand and drinking from his water bottle having come out of the bush traumatised and dehydrated.
The other is a little possum who had been saved, sitting on a fireman's shoulder.

Re: A couple of pics that need no words by suzulu on 11 February 2009 12:44pm

Oh, the horror of it all. For people and those poor little animals.

Re: A couple of pics that need no words by peripatetically on 11 February 2009 1:50pm

Kaz, just to let you know that BBC America showed the koala bear yesterday on the news. Mom and I both saw it.

Re: A couple of pics that need no words by mrsthing on 11 February 2009 8:07pm

Did all the non-Aussies see this one?

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25038852-661,00.html

There was another story about a baby koala that got into a tub of water in someone's shed to cool off, but I can't find it now. So freakin' cute! Sad though--it was probably trying to get away from the intense heat, either from the weather or the fires. And what do the rescued animals have to go back to?

And I'm so sorry for the people who are just finding out their loved ones didn't make it out. So very sad.

Re: A couple of pics that need no words by kazzzz on 12 February 2009 12:03am

Ohh I think that little koala has become an international star!!
And the one in the water, it just shows you how desparate and disorientated these little fellows are when they're coming to humans for help.
The estimation is 1,000,000 wild animals lost.

Re: A couple of pics that need no words by Spursfan on 12 February 2009 7:43am

Omigod.

:(

Re: A couple of pics that need no words by tucsonmike on 12 February 2009 12:45pm

I saw the koala with the firefighter on the news this morning. What a mess...

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