See this is the kind of thing that gets my attention when I get up too early
SPN at Soul Photo.Net spotted this and cruel though it may be I thought it was hilarious. I just kept thinking about those Warner Bros. cartoons where Sylvester the Cat thought the baby kangaroo was a giant mouse.
Warning over killer kangaroos
Wednesday, July 7, 2004 Posted: 12:28 PM EDT (1628 GMT)
CANBERRA, Australia (Reuters) -- Australians living in the nation's drought-ravaged capital have been warned to keep their distance from aggressive kangaroos after the iconic marsupials attacked one woman and killed a pet dog.
Eastern Grey kangaroos, which can grow 1.7 meters (5.6 feet) tall and weigh 70 kg (154 lb), []P6: What's that, welterweight?] 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 on Wednesday 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."
"Bang goes another kanga on the bonnet of the van..."
