in bed with victoria
By Jasmine Kazlauskas
Julie Kay leads the activity of any active mum – alive up at all hours, authoritative connected bottles of milk and putting on endless of laundry – but her ten-month-old babyish is a bare-nosed wombat.
The gran-of-seven, 61, has spent $12,000 AUD (£7,000) over the aftermost bristles years caring for alone babyish wombats and says it's no altered to attractive afterwards bairn babies.
Part-time cleaner Julie's latest array of joy, ten-month-old Rosie, alike sleeps in bed with her and accomplice Neville, 52 – and acts like a puppy about the house.
Julie, from Corryong, bounded Victoria, Australia, said: "Wombats are like my babies and I accept an constant adulation for them.
"They absolutely see me as their mother. They're such admiring and loyal creatures who absolutely adore their cuddles.
"Rosie brand to beanery me and if I'm lying on the couch she will jump up and bundle into me.
"She's aloof started giving us kisses and we kiss her on the mouth.
"I'll say 'Rosie – accord casket kisses' and she lifts her little arch up.
"She is aloof like a little puppy dog. Wherever I am she is consistently at my anxiety and she follows me everywhere."
Julie adopted Rosie as a six-month-old joey afterwards her mother was hit by a car and she was rescued from her pouch.
Now the besmirched marsupial spends her canicule arena with teddy bears and actuality captivated in a absolute while Julie canteen feeds her balmy milk every three hours.
She additionally enjoys active about and arena with the couple's dog Barney and alike acts like a dog herself.
Amazingly, Julie and Neville accept alike managed to toilet alternation all their beatnik babies with puppy pads so that there are no awful accidents in the house.
The animal-loving brace accept been active Bellaboo Wildlife Shelter from their home in the alien boondocks of Corryong for the accomplished bristles years.
While they mostly attending afterwards orphaned wombats like Rosie, the brace additionally currently affliction for two joey kangaroos, two blue-tongued lizards and birds and additionally accept two pet cats.
Julie's beatnik attraction began afterwards her ancestor brought home an afflicted beatnik aback she was a little babe active on a dairy farm.
The mum-of-two said: "I've consistently adored animals and wombats are abnormally abutting to my heart.
"They're accessible to attending afterwards and aloof adulation attention.
"People don't realise that wombats are abundantly admiring creatures."
While the brace do abound absorbed to the dozens of wombats and added animals that appear into their care, Julie said that absolution her babies acknowledgment to the agrarian is 'a actual blessed moment'.
Once Rosie is old enough, she will be active to addition ability and eventually appear aback into the wild.
She said: "You accept them back they're babies and accession them so it is sad aback they leave. It is abnormally adamantine the aboriginal night afterwards they're gone, I do absolutely absence them.
"But you array of aloof apperceive aback it's time for them to go and do what they were put on this apple to do. They charge to go out and do beatnik things, not be ashore central the house."
