This cycle often continued through the night and early morning. It was not unusual to be woken at 4am in the morning by scratching noises followed by whistles and squeals. Get out the bottle and the special milk. Warm it up, pick up the wombat and stick the teat in its mouth, then try to stay awake while he drinks his fill. Then a play, then if we were lucky another sleep period.
Wombats are hairyer.
One major drawback of keeping a wombat inside your house is that unless the animal has regular baths the smell can bit a bit overpowering. Fortunately despite the advances in technology, multimedia does not yet include smell files. Brutus was bathed often and seemed to enjoy it. He was very playful, every bit as playful and cheeky as any dog. Kate, the eldest was very wary of any animal and kept away from Brutus at first.