North Victorian wildlife carer Kylee Donkers has been involved in some "very strange rescues" over the years, but an animal recovery on a lake this week was a first.
On Monday morning, he owner and operator of Dutch Thunder Wildlife Shelter at Koonoomoo, about 75 kilometres north of Shepparton, received a call from concerned locals who found a wombat stranded in the middle of a lake on the Victoria-NSW border.