Recently landed: Lately, ringtail
Augusta, Nellie, Amelia, and Ferris have grown up, progressing apace from three-feeds per day to one, and moving from the smaller indoor enclosure to the larger one, as befits their acrobatics, and finally into the two outdoor enclosures. Not before, of course, sprouting into a quintet, with the arrival of a joey found by our neighbours in the Edinburgh Gardens.
Owing to her adorability, her rescuers named her Dora. As if meant to be, Dora the Explorer settled in, and made the decision to raise her to soft-release ready an easy one. Exhausted from her ordeal, having spent a long, hot day, exposed and trying to find safety, she bonded with the two closest to her in size, Ferris and Nellie, and so, as we had been about to move the quartet to their larger indoor digs, we divided the band of explorers into a trio and a duo. Not wishing to disturb what was already travelling smoothly, it was not an easy decision.
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31st of October, 2026
After weighing and checking over Nellie, Ferris, and Dora, we ascertained that it was time for the trio to advance to the outdoor enclosure. In the background, we’d been getting their enclosure ready, sawing new branches to fashion into a series of moveable swings and runways, fastening nesting boxes and a fine protective mesh curtain (to ensure they are safe from our local wild possums), but the trio, they were ready and raring and exquisitely fluffy. And so, into the new enclosure they went, one, two, three. Another milestone, for them, on their measured return to wild.
To the trio, so alike they’re proving tricky to tell apart. To them thriving!
