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| Kangaroo has Lassie moment |
| 2003-09-22 |
| Hat tip: Drudge. A man knocked unconscious by a tree branch during the weekend’s storms in north-eastern Victoria has been rescued, reportedly, by a Morwell family’s pet kangaroo. The kangaroo kept banging on the door of the family’s house in Tanjil South, then led it to the man lying unconscious about 150 metres away. "What’s that? Timmie’s in the well?" Authorities have allowed the family to care for the kangaroo since it was little, because it is blind in one eye and thinks it is a dog. Rural Ambulance Victoria paramedic Eddie Wright says the man was taken to the Austin Hospital with serious head injuries. He says he could have died if he had not been found until later. "The kangaroo alerted them to where he was and has gone and sat down next to him and that’s how they found him," he said. "Especially when you consider it’s not a pet as such, it’s just an animal that’s adopted them over the years and comes and goes as it is free to, they were lucky yesterday it was in the area." |
| Posted by:Dar |
| #9 sorry, i find this hard to believe. kangeroos are stupid (no offense to any kangeroos reading this), but it's reported that it took four roos to make the original versions of "skippy the bush kangeroo" because they were incapable of learning more than one trick. the guy probably had an oatmeal bar in his pocket and the pet needed a feed. |
| Posted by: glen 2003-9-23 5:36:23 AM |
| #8 Lots of Kangaroos think they are dogs, usually specific breeds. For instance, this one thinks he is a boxer. Kanga Joe |
| Posted by: penguin 2003-9-22 4:01:25 PM |
| #7 A female kangaroo would also be especially useful when parents with small children need to walk the pet -- no need for the stroller... |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-9-22 3:17:18 PM |
| #6 A female kangeroo could use its pouch to be particularly effective at fetching slippers and the paper. This would aleviate the saliva problem with having a dog perform the same function. I propose that all dogs be upgrade to kangeroos immediately except in the Phillipines as kangeroos don't taste right in stew. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-9-22 12:32:29 PM |
| #5 How do they know it thinks it's a dog? Cause it points. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-9-22 11:51:31 AM |
| #4 "What’s that? Timmie’s in the well?" ROFL - thanks Dar ;-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-9-22 10:26:58 AM |
| #3 Robert - they found it on the woof. It's skin is a little ruff. It loves to eat bark. And, it's persistance in getting help could only be described as dogged. |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2003-9-22 10:24:02 AM |
| #2 Authorities have allowed the family to care for the kangaroo since it was little, because it is blind in one eye and thinks it is a dog. How do they know it thinks it's a dog? |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-9-22 10:17:33 AM |
| #1 Kangaroo has Lassie moment Dinkum Aussies might call this a "Skippy" moment... :) |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-9-22 10:12:40 AM |