Even here in the Whitsundays with its diverse wildlife, it’s not every day a wild echidna comes crawling across your driveway, but for local Ruby Honey Gorlick, that is exactly what happened.
When Ruby arrived home last week, she saw the echidna crawling across her driveway and initially approached it because she was curious. When she got closer, however, she noticed it had ticks embedded into its skin.
“I noticed it had lots of ticks on it, which I know can hurt them and potentially kill them,” explained Ruby.
“So, I ran back to my car, grabbed my makeup bag, got my eyebrow tweezers and removed the ticks!”
Ruby has prior experience with removing ticks from animals as she has removed ticks from her dogs in the past.
Backed by this knowledge and coming from a family that often stop to help injured animals on the roadside, Ruby’s first instinct was to carefully remove the ticks and help the animal that was in distress.
Ruby says she loves animals and would help any creature if it was experiencing a life-threatening situation. She added that it is important to help animals because they can’t always do it themselves and need assistance.
Ruby counted six ticks on the echidna and after carefully removing all of them left the echidna continued on its way in good health.
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