AT SUNRISE ON Christmas morning, as the bush comes alive with a cacophony of birdsong announcing the dawn, two wallaroos will hop a familiar route towards a farmhouse in the Upper Hunter region of New South Wales. At the kitchen door, six-year-old Tilly will put her little paws on the glass and make a ‘clack, clack’ sound, her way of asking for her morning milk. Her son Reggie, 18 months, who’s already as big as Mum, will be waiting hungrily by her side for his breakfast.
The wallaroos, a smaller version of kangaroos, will be greeted by Annie Bell, who took Tilly in as a rescue joey when she was six months old. “She was only just covered in fur,” explains Annie, a nurse. “I bottle-fed
