The department told residents to lock their cat flaps and consider adding blood and bone to their gardens to deter the marsupial and if the nuisance behaviour continued to contact wildlife officers for further advice but offered no other solutions.

However Tasmanian Wildlife Rehabilitation Council president Oma Rodger has offered to take it in with 20 years of wildlife caring knowledge behind her.

She said she contacted Parks and Wildlife and offered to rehabilitate it and release it onto a property near Daisy Dell.

"I have a free wombat pen at the moment," she said.

"Deterring it in situ is the most ineffective, there are options and it could be given to a trained carer for proper rehabilitation to dehumanise it.

"It's not the wombats fault, it's the idiots who though they could raise it."

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Ms Rodger said the wombat's size and gender would determine how hard it would be to rehabilitate but trying to keep it alive was paramount.

For the last month it has been roaming near Back Creek and making itself at home along Herberts Road, Hobhouse Street and Burghley Street.

It has been entering peoples homes, pooing on their lawns and stealing pet food.

It appears to have been hand-raised and released into the wild without proper rehabilitation, and residents want it relocated for its own safety.