Baby wallaby hand-reared in rucksack

So this is Pip, Pip is a seven month old baby joey. Unfortunately her mum abandoned her so we picked her up, put her in a backpack so this imitates mum's pouch. So it's nice and warm with a blanket as well because she finds it hard to regulate her own temperature because obviously mum would do that for her having the warmth so she's got a nice blanket to keep her nice and warm. Yeah I carry her on my back in her bag around so she meets loads of people every day at the zoo. I have got a close bond with Pip and she knows who I am with my voice and everyone else that I work with as well because she comes out, she comes out around with us and everyone else meets her on our section as well every day. Yeah it is like being a mum but I'm not actually a real mum yet but I can't imagine having an actual baby at this present time because it is a lot of hard work. I mean at the minute she's been fed every four hours and when I first got her it was every three hours. In the long term she's going to be living down the farm with Ruby and Fidget who are also two other hand-reared wallabies. Ruby's an albino and then Fidget is another one just like little Pip here so she'll live with them and then what we'll do is hopefully let kids and that stroke her and interact with her when she gets a bit bigger. Probably in another month from now Pip will be in and out the bag on herself going to the toilet on her own. She'll be a lot more active she'll still have the bag as her security blanket so she'll be I don't know in another month and a half she'll be out outside where the public can see her in the day and she'll still have this this bag so she can jump in and out all the time.