Cataract surgery for kangaroos.

CraigT said :

IrishPete said :

It looks like the cataract surgery was carried out by a charity. How people choose to donate their charity dollars is up to them. Comments about Shane Rattenbury or A&E or surgery waiting times are irrelevant.

I personally don’t donate to any charity operating in this country, because that’s what we pay taxes for, and I am happy to pay increased taxes.

The rumour that Marcus Fillinger is training kangaroos in marksmanship was started by me, just now.

IP

I’m 100% with on avoiding charities and paying more tax, however I am still appalled that despite all the poor, desperate people old and young who cannot afford desperately needed surgery, some socipathic “charity” is wasting money on utter stupidity that helps nobody.

Wildcare? RSPCA? the list goes on. One person’s charity is another person’s utter stupidity.

IP

poetix said :

Mr Fillinger is a little different in appearance from many animal rights people…

This is a good thing, IMHO.

You mean he washes his hair occasionally?

Mr Fillinger is a little different in appearance from many animal rights people…

This is a good thing, IMHO.

IrishPete said :

It looks like the cataract surgery was carried out by a charity. How people choose to donate their charity dollars is up to them. Comments about Shane Rattenbury or A&E or surgery waiting times are irrelevant.

I personally don’t donate to any charity operating in this country, because that’s what we pay taxes for, and I am happy to pay increased taxes.

The rumour that Marcus Fillinger is training kangaroos in marksmanship was started by me, just now.

IP

I’m 100% with on avoiding charities and paying more tax, however I am still appalled that despite all the poor, desperate people old and young who cannot afford desperately needed surgery, some socipathic “charity” is wasting money on utter stupidity that helps nobody.

C’mon people, a little considerationfor the ‘roo here.The 90kg kangaroo ‘received’ cataract surgery. A ‘receipt’ of a surgical procedure implies an condoned acceptance of sorts…lets not allow a few violently administered pre-op tranquilising darts tarnish the procedure.

Just out of curiosity, how were the week’s worth of ‘as required’ eye drops administered post-op?

How Canberran.

I never thought myopia could be this funny..

How much did the cull cost?

It looks like the cataract surgery was carried out by a charity. How people choose to donate their charity dollars is up to them. Comments about Shane Rattenbury or A&E or surgery waiting times are irrelevant.

I personally don’t donate to any charity operating in this country, because that’s what we pay taxes for, and I am happy to pay increased taxes.

The rumour that Marcus Fillinger is training kangaroos in marksmanship was started by me, just now.

IP

Hmm. The ‘offending’ and rather ambiguous quote from the article says:

“Mr Fillinger is a trained military marksman who uses a dart gun to tranquilise kangaroos that require relocation. He recently helped immobilise a 90-kilogram kangaroo that required cataract surgery. ‘‘I actually isolated him, put him into care and had the cataracts removed,’’ Mr Fillinger said. ‘‘Now he’s in care and he will be released in the next couple of weeks.’’

But doesn’t actually say where the kangaroo was from or who was funding the exercise.

Cataract surgery for a kangaroo? Straight away. Prostate cancer operation for a 52 year old man? Wait for almost 18 months. Great set of priorities by our Greens/Labor government!