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Australia's Capital Warned Over Aggressive 'Roos

Wed Jul 7, 1:39 AM ET- Reuters
By Belinda Goldsmith

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australians living in the nation's drought-ravaged capital were warned on Wednesday to keep their distance from aggressive kangaroos after the iconic marsupials attacked one woman and killed a pet dog.

Eastern Gray kangaroos, which can grow 5.6 feet tall and weigh 154 pounds, have started moving out of the parched bush into inner Canberra suburbs during the day to look for grass and water, increasing their contact with people.

A senior wildlife ecologist with Environment ACT, Murray Evans, said the kangaroos could pose a threat to people and dogs, with one woman savaged by a large kangaroo as she was walking her small, pet dog in a paddock last week.

"Her dog went near the kangaroo and she followed and before she knew it the kangaroo lashed out, scratching her down the side of her body," Evans told Reuters.

Another woman told how a kangaroo drowned one of the four dogs she was walking with a friend, attacking it in a pond and holding it under the water with its hind legs while it hit out at one of the other dogs with its front legs.

"My friend started shouting: 'There's a kangaroo in the pond. It's got Summer'. It was surreal, like your worst nightmare," Christine Canham told the Canberra Times newspaper. "She was screaming and screaming. The kangaroo just stared back at us. I will never forget that."

Evans said it was not unusual for kangaroos to flee into water if they felt under threat and, as a last defense, they would try to drown their predator with their powerful hind legs. He said most of the behavioral change in the usually placid animals was due to the scarcity of feed after a run of dry years in Canberra, the inland bush capital, as Australia battles its worst drought in a century.

Kangaroos usually shelter by day and emerge at dusk to feed during the night but the reduction in available grass meant they were now traveling by day in search of food, dramatically increasing the number of encounters with people -- and dogs.

"Kangaroos and dogs just do not mix. Kangaroos see dogs as a threat and get spooked by them," Evans said. "The main message people should remember is that kangaroos may look cuddly and furry but they are wild animals and people should keep their distance and keep dogs on leads around them."
 
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Kangaroos will rip the guts out of a dog using their hind legs if they can as well as the drowning trick. I DO NOT like my dog chasing them.

These city people aught to learn something about real life.
 
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Sheeple want to believe everything is cute and cuddly.
 
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It is until it tries to kill you!

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Bears are cute from the relative safety of your car too....
 
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I hope a whole bloody great mob of them get through the doors of parliment.
 
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If they do, send some to Washington!
 
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Years ago before I left Canberra the roos in the Governor Generals residents were breeding out of control on the protected grounds of the place. The first thought was a cull but the greenies kicked up a stink, Soooooo what they did was to desex the males at tax payers expence mind you
 
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Soooooo what they did was to desex the males




So they made them into Canberran public servants then?
 
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Hit the nail on the head mate
 
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That would have been very funny, Bob Hawk & his mates chasing big buck roos across the lawn with a razor in hand trying to cut his nackers out!
On second thought, a typical politian would get some other poor coot to do his dirty work
 
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