Being a brushtail possum rehabilitator here in TAS, that was one very very unwell possum. She was already dying, you did the kindest thing. Her baby was completely unviable. So incredibly sad.
Thanks Harriet; I generally field a lot of criticism over euthanasias for not actually trying to heal them first, but this was exactly the right thing to do for her, and since the little Tippit was so tiny and fused to the teat, he also wasn't able to be raised by a carer. TippieToo wouldn't have even survived to grow little Tippit up until he was big enough to be raised; that wound smelled like death; it was necrotic, sloughy, deep into the muscle tissue, and as you said - TippieToo was dying, and the issue remained - what caused her immune suppression to allow her to fall prey to this bacteria in the first place? Thanks for caring for the Brushies in Tassie.
TippieToo had been hanging around in the possum box on top of the joey pen shelter for about 5 days; we knew she'd had a tough time in that one ear was all shredded (and healed) and she wasn't particularly hissy when we doled out the support fruit in the evenings. It was only when she couldn't return to the box because she was too sick, that we realised how bad she really was; the possums in the boxes on the property are wild and nobody voluntarily puts their hand in the box without a glove on. Some of the handraised and released ones will wake up at possum dole time, and daintily take some fruit from you but many hiss at you and you leave your offerings outside the box. It was interesting that TippieToo had the same tail colouring and lack of fur on the tip as her many times grandmother Tippie the Terror.
It seems like a simple infection but it's far more complex that that; we could pick her up and handle her without gloves, which means she's really sick; she was too sick to get back to her box for the daytime.
Double bugger!! So sorry these 2 didn't make it. I have to admit though, as heartbreaking as it was, to see a lil joey that small was fascinating! I had no idea they literally fused onto the teat like that. You Aussies sure do have some interesting native critters, so thanks for sharing some of them with us!
I often think long and hard about what I'm going to put up when the outcome isn't going to be happy. We had to look in her pouch to see how big the joey was, because we did a brief grope and confirmed there was a joey in there so it was just a matter of how big it was. 10g is far too small and since he was fused, there was nothing we could do. We could have kept TippieToo alive to try to raise him to a weight where he would be able to be cared for and raised by a human, but the problem was that he was going to suffer as TippieToo was being treated, anaesthetised to have the wound cleaned up, on antibiotics would travel through into the milk even if TippieT was injected with them and didn't have them orally. And why was she so immune compromised that she got the opportunistic infection anyway. I was fascinated by the size of the joey, the squirming and the fusion to the teat, and the fact that even at 10g he was still recognisably male. I choose to show things which fascinate me (but not to the detriment of the animal). We didn't check the joey fully until TT was dead, that way she wasn't aware of us handling her joey with the view to removing it and caring for it; when they have a joey in their pouch they're fiercely protective and there's no point in stressing TT further than we had to, and whether Tippit was big enough or not was irrelevant to the decision to euthanase TT.
@@Megabattie You're so right. This was one of those: "whichever way we do this, one of them is gonna be suffering" cases. Tippie seemed pretty weak so she may not have even had it in her to support and feed lil Tippit to a survivable age anyways. It sucks, but it was the right call. Whether vids end happily or not, I love ones where I actually learn a lil something without my brain noticing I just got educated lol. Yeah the fact he was so weeny and yet obviously a boy was hecking amazing (it did pop into my head that there might be some little red blood in him, ala coconuts n all. I know theres not, but it made my demented self chuckle so whatevs).
A good reminder that nature can be amazing and beautiful... but also cruel. Poor TippieToo, she was trying her damnedest to protect her little one to the very end. 😢
Meg and Catherine, I'm sorry for the loss. I mean, it is possible that we'll find another of Tippie's offspring without staph infection which hurts the immune system. I promise. Rest In Peace, TippieTwo and Baby Tippit.
Yes it was, tragic though it was; the sight of the squirming little jellybean joey squirming around, fused to the teat, and with his boy bits obvious even at about 10gms weight was amazing and also tragic.
TippieToo reminds me of Tippie the Redeemed Terror, another female Brushtail opossum. In fact, TippieTwo is Tippie's daughter, making Tippit her grandson.
Tippie the Terror was never redeemed; she remained a terrorist for her lifetime; I don't think I've seen her for the last maybe 5 years since I was visiting in high summer and we were all sitting outside and eating outside every night. TippieToo probably isn't Tippie's daughter - she might be granddaughter or great or great great granddaughter, She's not an opossum either - they're called Possums in Australia and are no relationship to the USA Opossums. Possums are a suborder of 70 tree-living marsupial species native to Australia and the Indonesian islands of New Guinea and Sulawesi. While their names are similar and both are marsupials, possums and opossums are different creatures.
I wish that since there was a baby, the vet had tried to help her with antibiotics and treatment. I understand what he was saying that there’s an underlying cause for the infection & it would maybe come back. I just really wish he had provided care first before saying that it wouldn’t work b-c there is a baby involved. Maybe she could have lived long enough for the baby to develop to be saved. However, this is just wishful thinking on my part. I’m not a vet, not in that situation, and only heard a tiny snippet of the vet’s rationale. I understand. I was just hoping, especially after seeing that tiny wriggling life in the mommy’s pouch.
As the vet explained, TippieToo was very unwell and though the wound could be treated, it would be long and most likely not heal at all because of whatever underlying issue precipitated this opportunistic infection. The treatment TT would need would also affect the baby, who was probably also immune compromised; the antibiotics she would need would cross the lactation barrier into her milk. Possum joeys can't take many oral antibiotics because they cause gut issues, but the baby would be having these antibiotics in its milk and suffering the consequences. And as various possum carers have said - TT was extremely unwell and unlikely to survive anyway. We didn't look at little Tippit until TT had been euthanased; possum mums are really protective of their in pouch joeys and it would have stressed her horribly for us to be looking in her pouch while she was still alive and awake. The decision to euthanase TT was based on her pretty ghastly condition and was made independently and prior to finding out the size of the joey. Tippit was never going to be able to be raised at his tiny size, but if he was big enough we would have taken him out and Catherine would've raised him. Growing him up in TT's pouch and keeping her alive was never going to be an option. I loved seeing the squirming little wriggler in the pouch, marvelling at the tiny life and the fusion to her nipple, and at the same time I still don't have a problem with both of them being euthanased. Tough decisions but the best one for TT at the time.
It's not a womb, it's a pouch; this is where the joey would spend another few months. Not everyone likes everything, but on my channel I show it all and all the fascinating bits; if this isn't something with which you can cope, perhaps my channel isn't for you, however I'm not actually censoring the miracle of a joey in a possum's pouch because people think it's a video of a joey being handled in utero. No blood, no bodily fluids, just the miracle of a tiny joey fused to its mum's teat in her pouch about 6-8 weeks after it was born. Oh, and the mum possum was dead when we checked the size of the joey to see if he was viable so the mum wasn't stressed by this. Would you prefer we just left the joey in there to die slowly in his dead mum's pouch, or check to see if he was old enough to be raised and if not, euthanase him with his mum? Or just not show this, or show it behind a warning screen when there is nothing to see but a miracle. I can't please everyone and I no longer try. With my channel, you get what you get, which is what I do. Anything truly graphic is warned about in the description and with a warning screen prior to the imagery.
I had a wild male brush tail that lived in a box at my place , he was very tame and would sit on my lap and eat a little fruit , he was injured and came to me in the middle of the day when I was working under the house( Queenslander type) I was able to pick him up and put him in a pet carrier ,sadly he was too badly injured to be saved . ruclips.net/video/JFnu3O0p2iU/видео.html
Should of tried vitamin E on her wound..we had a doctor in Canada that used it and had extremely good results..I burned the top of my legs very bad and had open wounds ,3rd degree burns and used it on them and don't even have any scars.
0h thats a terrible shame. Rip little ones 😢
Being a brushtail possum rehabilitator here in TAS, that was one very very unwell possum. She was already dying, you did the kindest thing. Her baby was completely unviable. So incredibly sad.
Thank you for helping Brushtail Possums.🥺💕💕 Much respect and well wishes from Chicago IL USA.
Thanks Harriet; I generally field a lot of criticism over euthanasias for not actually trying to heal them first, but this was exactly the right thing to do for her, and since the little Tippit was so tiny and fused to the teat, he also wasn't able to be raised by a carer. TippieToo wouldn't have even survived to grow little Tippit up until he was big enough to be raised; that wound smelled like death; it was necrotic, sloughy, deep into the muscle tissue, and as you said - TippieToo was dying, and the issue remained - what caused her immune suppression to allow her to fall prey to this bacteria in the first place?
Thanks for caring for the Brushies in Tassie.
Thank you for the work you do…there’s a lot of sorrow mixed with joy and it take special people to do this.
Oh I’m so sorry mama and baby
😢😢😢RIP little Tippie Too and Tippit. You are out of pain now. 😇❤️🖤🦇🖤❤️🦘🦘
😿😿😿😿😿 blessings to you both for caring for them and releasing them peacefully. 😪😪😪
Tippie Too knew where and who to go to as she began to fade. I'm glad she was put out of pain. She and her Tippit are together forever.
TippieToo had been hanging around in the possum box on top of the joey pen shelter for about 5 days; we knew she'd had a tough time in that one ear was all shredded (and healed) and she wasn't particularly hissy when we doled out the support fruit in the evenings.
It was only when she couldn't return to the box because she was too sick, that we realised how bad she really was; the possums in the boxes on the property are wild and nobody voluntarily puts their hand in the box without a glove on. Some of the handraised and released ones will wake up at possum dole time, and daintily take some fruit from you but many hiss at you and you leave your offerings outside the box.
It was interesting that TippieToo had the same tail colouring and lack of fur on the tip as her many times grandmother Tippie the Terror.
The sad stories are tragic. I wish the Mom and baby peace and comfort in the afterlife. Sorry for your loss Meg and Catherine. 🙏🦘🦘💗💗
Very sad indeed, such a great mother, she gave her last for her little on. Thank you both for your kindness ❤️ xxx
Such a sad outcome but unavoidable. Seeing that little joey was heartbreaking, but they're now at peace and no longer in pain. ❤
I think seeing Tippit (though sad), was amazing; a miracle of life and function
RIP possum and joey
Thank you for doing what had to be done. Again. ❤🙏
It seems like a simple infection but it's far more complex that that; we could pick her up and handle her without gloves, which means she's really sick; she was too sick to get back to her box for the daytime.
RIP momma Tippie and her little pink bean ;~;
Double bugger!! So sorry these 2 didn't make it. I have to admit though, as heartbreaking as it was, to see a lil joey that small was fascinating! I had no idea they literally fused onto the teat like that. You Aussies sure do have some interesting native critters, so thanks for sharing some of them with us!
I often think long and hard about what I'm going to put up when the outcome isn't going to be happy. We had to look in her pouch to see how big the joey was, because we did a brief grope and confirmed there was a joey in there so it was just a matter of how big it was.
10g is far too small and since he was fused, there was nothing we could do.
We could have kept TippieToo alive to try to raise him to a weight where he would be able to be cared for and raised by a human, but the problem was that he was going to suffer as TippieToo was being treated, anaesthetised to have the wound cleaned up, on antibiotics would travel through into the milk even if TippieT was injected with them and didn't have them orally.
And why was she so immune compromised that she got the opportunistic infection anyway.
I was fascinated by the size of the joey, the squirming and the fusion to the teat, and the fact that even at 10g he was still recognisably male.
I choose to show things which fascinate me (but not to the detriment of the animal). We didn't check the joey fully until TT was dead, that way she wasn't aware of us handling her joey with the view to removing it and caring for it; when they have a joey in their pouch they're fiercely protective and there's no point in stressing TT further than we had to, and whether Tippit was big enough or not was irrelevant to the decision to euthanase TT.
@@Megabattie You're so right. This was one of those: "whichever way we do this, one of them is gonna be suffering" cases. Tippie seemed pretty weak so she may not have even had it in her to support and feed lil Tippit to a survivable age anyways. It sucks, but it was the right call. Whether vids end happily or not, I love ones where I actually learn a lil something without my brain noticing I just got educated lol. Yeah the fact he was so weeny and yet obviously a boy was hecking amazing (it did pop into my head that there might be some little red blood in him, ala coconuts n all. I know theres not, but it made my demented self chuckle so whatevs).
How unfortunate. Thank you for giving them a peaceful passing
So very very sorry breaks my heart 💖💖💖💖💖😥😥😥
A good reminder that nature can be amazing and beautiful... but also cruel. Poor TippieToo, she was trying her damnedest to protect her little one to the very end. 😢
I am so very sorry Meg and Catherine!😓💔💔🐾🐾 RIP Tippie Too and Tippit.💕💕
Awww, poor lamb ❤ what a nasty infection. Thank you for helping her and explaining in detail. ❤🇨🇦
Poor girl... such a beautiful creature come upon some bad stuff. 😢
Yes, it was such a shame, and more of a shame that the baby was far too young to survive without mumma Poss
So sorry.
Meg and Catherine, I'm sorry for the loss. I mean, it is possible that we'll find another of Tippie's offspring without staph infection which hurts the immune system. I promise. Rest In Peace, TippieTwo and Baby Tippit.
I'm sure Tippie the Terrorist made a lot of babies during her reign of terror.
@@Megabattie Me too
Ugh….was the best option
Yes it was, tragic though it was; the sight of the squirming little jellybean joey squirming around, fused to the teat, and with his boy bits obvious even at about 10gms weight was amazing and also tragic.
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TippieToo reminds me of Tippie the Redeemed Terror, another female Brushtail opossum. In fact, TippieTwo is Tippie's daughter, making Tippit her grandson.
Tippie the Terror was never redeemed; she remained a terrorist for her lifetime; I don't think I've seen her for the last maybe 5 years since I was visiting in high summer and we were all sitting outside and eating outside every night.
TippieToo probably isn't Tippie's daughter - she might be granddaughter or great or great great granddaughter,
She's not an opossum either - they're called Possums in Australia and are no relationship to the USA Opossums.
Possums are a suborder of 70 tree-living marsupial species native to Australia and the Indonesian islands of New Guinea and Sulawesi. While their names are similar and both are marsupials, possums and opossums are different creatures.
@@Megabattie It makes sense.
Meg, you will not like this : appt today got cancelled. CT scan results not out, no idea why. Waiting game now. Whatever next !!
That's a bugger.
I am missing the bats lol😊
I'm BACK in Sydney now but you'll have to wait till I start rescuing maybe on Monday; I have 2 days of work I have to do and I can't put it off.
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I wish that since there was a baby, the vet had tried to help her with antibiotics and treatment. I understand what he was saying that there’s an underlying cause for the infection & it would maybe come back. I just really wish he had provided care first before saying that it wouldn’t work b-c there is a baby involved. Maybe she could have lived long enough for the baby to develop to be saved. However, this is just wishful thinking on my part. I’m not a vet, not in that situation, and only heard a tiny snippet of the vet’s rationale. I understand. I was just hoping, especially after seeing that tiny wriggling life in the mommy’s pouch.
As the vet explained, TippieToo was very unwell and though the wound could be treated, it would be long and most likely not heal at all because of whatever underlying issue precipitated this opportunistic infection.
The treatment TT would need would also affect the baby, who was probably also immune compromised; the antibiotics she would need would cross the lactation barrier into her milk. Possum joeys can't take many oral antibiotics because they cause gut issues, but the baby would be having these antibiotics in its milk and suffering the consequences.
And as various possum carers have said - TT was extremely unwell and unlikely to survive anyway.
We didn't look at little Tippit until TT had been euthanased; possum mums are really protective of their in pouch joeys and it would have stressed her horribly for us to be looking in her pouch while she was still alive and awake. The decision to euthanase TT was based on her pretty ghastly condition and was made independently and prior to finding out the size of the joey. Tippit was never going to be able to be raised at his tiny size, but if he was big enough we would have taken him out and Catherine would've raised him.
Growing him up in TT's pouch and keeping her alive was never going to be an option.
I loved seeing the squirming little wriggler in the pouch, marvelling at the tiny life and the fusion to her nipple, and at the same time I still don't have a problem with both of them being euthanased.
Tough decisions but the best one for TT at the time.
Ladies, I really think I could have lived without having to see the inside of a poor suffering possum's womb! Unnecessary and really rather sickening!
It's not a womb, it's a pouch; this is where the joey would spend another few months.
Not everyone likes everything, but on my channel I show it all and all the fascinating bits; if this isn't something with which you can cope, perhaps my channel isn't for you, however I'm not actually censoring the miracle of a joey in a possum's pouch because people think it's a video of a joey being handled in utero.
No blood, no bodily fluids, just the miracle of a tiny joey fused to its mum's teat in her pouch about 6-8 weeks after it was born.
Oh, and the mum possum was dead when we checked the size of the joey to see if he was viable so the mum wasn't stressed by this.
Would you prefer we just left the joey in there to die slowly in his dead mum's pouch, or check to see if he was old enough to be raised and if not, euthanase him with his mum?
Or just not show this, or show it behind a warning screen when there is nothing to see but a miracle. I can't please everyone and I no longer try.
With my channel, you get what you get, which is what I do. Anything truly graphic is warned about in the description and with a warning screen prior to the imagery.
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I' m so sorry they died together but I understand it was th only way you had
I had a wild male brush tail that lived in a box at my place , he was very tame and would sit on my lap and eat a little fruit , he was injured and came to me in the middle of the day when I was working under the house( Queenslander type) I was able to pick him up and put him in a pet carrier ,sadly he was too badly injured to be saved .
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He may have been a handraised possum who had moved into your area after he was released into the wild; sorry it doesn't work out for him.
Should of tried vitamin E on her wound..we had a doctor in Canada that used it and had extremely good results..I burned the top of my legs very bad and had open wounds ,3rd degree burns and used it on them and don't even have any scars.
It's not a burn; it's a horrible infection which goes deep into her tissues as a result of her being immune compromised.
So sad, so sorry. But at least they left together for the Rainbow Bridge.💔🦦💐