Table 2.

Distressing events that had impacted wildlife carers.

	Questions Concerning Distressing Events Wildlife Carers Had Experienced
1	Receiving adverse comments about the way you care for animals
2	Rescuing pouch-young or an injured joey from a dead female
3	The death or serious illness of an animal in your care
4	Releasing animals to the wild and not knowing whether they survived or had a life worth living
5	Had an animal taken by authorities, hard released to the wild and which died shortly afterwards
6	Financial hardship as a result of the cost of caring for animals
7	Health-related loss
8	Loss of freedom through being a carer
9	Other