Wallaby wannabe free

Wally, is that you? (Photo by Glen Fergus)

A Christian writer who goes by the pen name of “Aunt Carolyn” created a tale called “Wally the Wallaby.”

As Wally the Wallaby was lounging in the Australian outback one night, a python suddenly attacked.  A nearby Bushman

happened to hear Wally’s desperate cries.

Wally would have been lost forever were it not for the compassionate (at least from Wally's perspective)     Bushman’s intervention.  A shot was fired, and the python was killed.     Its deadly grip on Wally was loosened, and one very relieved wallaby was now free to lead the good life.

Freedom, it seems, is as important to wallabies as it is to us.  Why just the other day, a wallaby that was earmarked for a petting zoo decided otherwise.  Reuters reports that about 45 miles north of Seattle, this courageous wallaby suddenly “bounded away from its crate… streaked across a highway and down toward a river…”

Hopefully, there are no pythons (coyotes or dogs or bears, oh my) down there.  But if there are, may this wallaby also be saved…

    

Resources

http://news.yahoo.com/volunteers-search-missing-wallaby-washington-state-192610333.html

http://www.theprojector.org/projectors/winter1992.pdf (Page 3 of 12)

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