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(6,212 posts)than she would in the wild. What a sweet creature.
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(19,324 posts)this video brought happy tears to my eyes. i have been so sad over the tragedy of Australia. THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS LOVELY VIDEO.
catbyte
(39,308 posts)were deliberately set. Monsters. I've donated to several animal welfare groups and our local news had a story about some local women who are sewing bat wraps, blankets and knitting little kangaroo & wombat pouches to send there. Local firefighters are also in Australia helping battle the fires. This was posted on Facebook:

eppur_se_muova
(42,518 posts)I'm not sure exactly how they're making these estimates, but it went up from half a billion a few days ago to a billion.
But some good (or mixed?) news -- the reports of widespread arson are fake news, spread by trolls and bots. Obviously RWNJs, since they're claiming climate change activists set the fires to phony up a crisis. Truly, there is no low to which the RWers will not stoop.
wiley
(2,921 posts)For RW trolls in any country.
StarryNite
(12,167 posts)Happy tears for this beautiful little fox!
Sad tears for all the wildlife that is in the way of the Australian fires.
MatthewHatesTrump2
(915 posts)lastlib
(28,608 posts)But NOT the **other one**......
wiley
(2,921 posts)I love foxes.
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