this is the story of LUCKY, who i miss already... hahah
i was just heading home tonight from the tai ranch after farewelling DoJ. mt cotton road is dark, curvy and surrounded by bushland - and i was following Dentist's mazda3. about 400m down the road there was a wallaby carcass in the middle of the road - a relatively fresh one, but apart from that nothing too extraordinary.
as i drove around it... something moved.
what?
i drove 200m or so down, turned my car around to double check ... and sure enough... the joey had been thrown out and now it was crawling around, confused, limping and in shock. its mother, meanwhile, was very very dead.
two things to note at this point:
- if ur not from here... mt cotton road is really just bush in some parts, completely pitch black, and people usually drive around 100km/h at night (not saying that i do :P)
- the wallaby got killed in the middle of the road, just around the corner after a crest... couldn't be worse really
i stopped my car, put my hazards on and opened my door (hoping that people would see me easier). i waited to watch a car drive past, just to make sure i wasn't invisible. to my surprise the next two cars both stopped to ask if i was okay :) one was a really nice middle-aged lady (shes got guts to stop - she was by herself), the other a young guy who was a little bit spaced out. but still, it was nice that - in this day and age - people still care.
luckily DoJ had given me a few tshirts tonight, so i used one of them (thanks bro) to pick up this tiny creature - it was so soft and delicate - and brought him back to the ranch, and eventually to a 24hr vet. he still had his suckling instincts. i hear that he will probably be saved. i very much hope so.
i especially hope the Lucky story will have a much more pleasant ending than ronald, the last animal that me and grace tried to rescue*.
ok so Lucky got me thinking about a few things. mainly that...
- if DoJ wasn't going on an awesome missions to taiwan tomorrow, i prob wouldn't have been at the ranch so early tonight
- if i didn't have the sniffles (which have disappeared since i met Lucky), i definitely wouldn't have gone home so early tonight
- if DoJ hadn't given me some tshirts, i wouldn't have known what to carry Lucky with
- if God didn't give me a compassionate heart towards animals - some of my friends run over stuff and laugh - then Lucky would probably be dead, eaten by a snake or ran over by a car or whatnot
coincidence, or does God love Lucky? or God is using Lucky to teach us something? or he's got some special purpose to use him?
*last animal gracie and I rescued was Ronald, a hen which made my dog kiara so jealous (cuz i was feeding it fried rice) that she chomped its ass. after i brought it to the tai ranch, it lived happily ever after ... for the next two weeks. then it got its head taken off by a fox :(
