Neighbourhood Cats

They’re not friends. Usually one’s on the roof or the next-door’s fence, the other on this fence, but come 5.30 or 6 they’re banded together waiting for someone to come home and feed them.

Today could have been another wildlife blip. I arrived at work to find G in the front office with an unknown woman huddling over an echidna wrapped in towel. A guy crossing the bridge had encountered it heading up Canterbury Road next to four lanes of traffic. He called WIRES, the wildlife rescue people.

G and the unknown woman, both WIRES volunteers, got the message on their apps and were there within minutes. The echidna was unharmed, had no young in its pouch and no milk patches (they don’t have nipples). It was relocated to a reserve further up the river where there’s other echidnas.

Have a great weekend everyone!