The maximum penalty for such a shooting is a $225,000 fine or two years' imprisonment.įrodo's next big challenge in life will be surviving the disease, vegetation clearing, dog attacks and car strikes that have decimated their numbers. In Tolkien’s Return of the King, Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin arrive back in the Shire to find their home and its people have been conquered, oppressed, and in some cases literally enslaved by. The incident raised issues of just how seriously police and Environment Department investigators took animal cruelty issues when investigators did not visit the crime scene for almost a week after the shooting and not until after the RSPCA complained. Place in Arda Aliases Home of Bilbo Baggins Built by Bungo Baggins Realm The Shire Type Smial (Hobbit-hole) Bag End was a smial situated at the end of Bagshot Row in Hobbiton. Police never found who shot Frodo and her mum although Jimna locals complained of regularly hearing rifle shots in the area. 'She's 18 months or more now and at an age where in the wild she would have separated naturally from her mum and gone her own way,' Dr Gillett said. The veterinarian said staff had formed an emotional attachment with the arboreal marsupial, ordinarily a solitary animal.įrodo would be released in the safest place that could be found in consultation with Environment Department scientists. I'm just very thankful for all those who donated and helped out.' 'It cost many, many thousands but it was worth it,' Dr Gillett said. Her expensive medical recovery included special foods, antibiotics, xrays and around-the-clock veterinary care paid for by public donations. 'She has come such a long way from the sick little girl admitted. Her mother was dead beside her at the bottom of a tree.ĭr Gillett operated three times, repairing perforations and removing seven of the pellets.Īlthough usually solitary animals, Frodo has spent the past three months with other koalas, learning to climb and forage. Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit (foil) from Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-Earth Commander. AFTER three operations and six months in hospital, Frodo the koala joey blasted out of a tree with a shotgun in November last year is about to make her way in the world.Īustralia Zoo veterinarian Amber Gillett expects to release Frodo in about a month after consulting Environment Department scientists.įrodo's weight has gone from 1.9kg to a healthy 3.6kg and she is expected to breed next spring.įrodo was found at Jimna on the Sunshine Coast hinterland with 15 pellets inside her, including one that fractured her skull.

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