Handler

Larsson handed Joe back into his cage and closed the door, smiling. Joe was getting old and grumpy, and was known to growl at the newer handlers… but he always behaved like a lamb for Larsson. Koalas weren't much for mateship, he knew, but he reckoned Joe trusted him to treat him right.

"There you go, fella," he said, and patted the cage on the way out. Joe was almost the last – just the baby, Kelly, to go. Kelly, he mused, was not old and grumpy, thank God. They needed a star that the kids could