Kind-hearted Irish family living in Australia save koala bear dying from chlamydia
Seanie and Amanda Farrelly won the trust of the stricken animal while walking in a forest near their home in Brisbane.Amanda , from Tallaght in Dublin, was out walking when the couple's black Labrador Jake started barking to attract her attention.
"We rang the animal rescue but their van was broken down so I gave the koala some water and gained his trust to let me pet him. He knew I wasn't going to harm him. "While at a talk there, an expert told us that if you see a koala with a brown backside, or dirty tail as it's known, that's a sign it has chlamydia which is rampant in the koala world.
"Hopefully he'll get through it and if so, would be placed in a rehabilitation sanctuary with other koalas and no human contact. In time, he would be released back into the wild.
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