Starving kangaroos attacking people and pets!!!!!!

Starving kangaroos attacking people and pets
CANBERRA, Australia - The Australian Capital Territory Environment Department warned residents to beware after a woman was attacked by a kangaroo while walking her poodle in a city park last week and another woman reported a kangaroo had drowned her golden retriever in a pond and seriously injured another two dogs in an unprovoked attack.

The dogs had been swimming when a large kangaroo appeared on the bank and entered the water, according to owner Christine Canham. The kangaroo "held her under the water with its back legs and drowned her as we watched helpless," Canham wrote in a letter to the editor of the Canberra Times published last week.

Government wildlife ecologist Murray Evans said he was concerned that city residents might forget that the beloved symbol of Australia is also a wild animal that can grow as tall and heavy as a man.

"Kangaroos don't come bounding out of the bush looking for people to attack," Murray Evans said. "It's usually kangaroos minding their own business and people thinking they're cute and cuddly and getting too close."

"Because of the shortage of feed, they're more likely to stand their ground when they've found grass, particularly the big males," he said.

"It looks like boxing, but they don't actually curl their paws up and punch," Evans said. "They spar, taking swipes at each other with their (upper) paws, scratching and grappling."

He added, "They can even rest back on their tails and try to kick you and that's when you can really get some serious injuries."

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The kangaroo "held her under the water with its back legs and drowned her as we watched helpless

Tell ya what, that'd scare the sth outta me.

wow....this world has gone...mad?

oh ma gud..... killa kangaroos... what's next or sth!?

What the sth?

this sounds like a book from George Orwell (don't remember it's english name)

POWER TO THE ANIMALS

I hate animals. Especially those freakin kangaroos...

Damn...I knew I should've never let those pesky kangrarrsus see Kangrarrsus Jack...Hollywood lets one kangrarrsus to revolilullssssiz (sp?) and see what happens...

Someone translate that post for me.

I think it went something along these lines:

Damn, I knew I should've never let those pesky kangaroo's watch the movie Kangaroo Jack.

Hollywood revolutionizes one kangaroo and look what happens.

can we get pics of this or something?

I hope that if someone watching had time to take a picture they would have tried to help.

This certainly doesn't help dispel that stereotype that Australian wildlife is running rampant through suburban areas.

Wow what a fierce way to drown that dog... now that's the kind of animal I'd like to have (as long as he doesn't turn on me lol).


EDIT: OH YEAH I KNOW THE BOOK YOUR TALKING ABOUT!


ANIMAL FARM

It's where the pigs and such rebel against the humans because they don't like the way they are treated, then eventually as the story progresses, the pigs end up acting like the humans (deceit and treating the lower animals wrongly).

I really doubt the KangaRoo actualy new what it was doing, i mean does it have the intelligence to know that if it hold a living thing under the water long enough it will die?

Andrew, Becareful. Lol. I hope you don't die.

I really doubt the KangaRoo actualy new what it was doing, i mean does it have the intelligence to know that if it hold a living thing under the water long enough it will die?

You never know...

Maybe that was the leader of the kangaroos (possibly Jack) and is very intellegent, just like in the Simpsons Halloween episode when the dolphins took over

Andrew, Becareful. Lol. I hope you don't die.

Don't worry, the attacks were about 6 or 7 hours South of where I live. Those kangaroos would probably end up as roadkill before they ever reached Newcastle.