Keepers in the new hospital also double as ward nurses.  Often the job involves hand-raising orphaned joeys.

"I've been a Keeper for my whole career and have worked at the Sanctuary for 25 years.  I guess that tells you that I really like my work.  It's pretty unique and I get real satisfaction from caring for wildlife patients in the hospital and seeing them released to the wild months later.  It's not easy sometimes though, especially if an animal doesn't make it.  But for all the ones that don't, there are so many more that do."

There's one kind of patient Leonie avoids.  "Sometimes a member of the public brings a spider in for indentification and I have to be really brave as I'm petrified of spiders!  Give me a snake any day!"