Raw Video: Sam the Koala Gets a Drink After Fire (Australia

Raw Video: Sam the Koala Gets a Drink After Fire (Australia - adorable and heart wrenching)
The Washington Post ^ | Feb 11, 2009

Posted on 02/11/2009 3:29:41 PM PST by RDTF

A firefighter finds a koala moving gingerly on her scorched paws after wildfires sweep Australia. "Sam" accepted a bottle of water and is now recovering at a wildlife shelter.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...

TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: animalrescue; bushfires; koala

video at link

1 posted on 02/11/2009 3:29:41 PM PST by RDTF

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To: RDTF

For later.

2 posted on 02/11/2009 3:31:26 PM PST by randomhero97 ("First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow!" - Ash)

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To: RDTF

Just what I needed on a wet, crappy day at work. That little Koala had “Hug me” written all over it!

3 posted on 02/11/2009 3:34:57 PM PST by Right Cal Gal (Abraham Lincoln would have let Berkeley leave the Union without a fight)

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To: RDTF

Poor baby. Had the good sense to trust the firefighter.

4 posted on 02/11/2009 3:35:00 PM PST by Roses0508

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To: All

if that link doesn’t work - this one is good

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2009/02/11/VI2009021102360.html?hpid=multimedia1&hpv=national

5 posted on 02/11/2009 3:35:01 PM PST by RDTF (BO smells and eventually people do what's necessary to avoid it)

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To: RDTF

The real reason Sam needed the water

6 posted on 02/11/2009 3:36:10 PM PST by JRios1968 (Sarah Palin is what Willis was talkin' about!)

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To: RDTF

See: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2183554/posts
(original)

7 posted on 02/11/2009 3:37:19 PM PST by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)

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To: RDTF

8 posted on 02/11/2009 3:42:57 PM PST by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)

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Miscellaneous Ping List

9 posted on 02/11/2009 3:44:06 PM PST by EveningStar

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To: EveningStar

I saw a clip of this earlier today. Poor little Koala was in shock.

10 posted on 02/11/2009 4:00:22 PM PST by TheMom (I'm gonna be a grandma!)

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To: TheMom

bfl

11 posted on 02/11/2009 4:26:51 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom

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To: JRios1968

still funneh

12 posted on 02/11/2009 4:45:13 PM PST by BJClinton

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Awww!

13 posted on 02/11/2009 6:04:52 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (This disaster brought to you by the failed Obama administration.)

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To: RDTF

Oh I really needed to see something just genuinely that good and for all the right reasons, that area of Oz is just devastated, so good to see good news out of there!

14 posted on 02/11/2009 9:11:42 PM PST by Danae (Amerikan Unity My Ass)

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