Our Grandson Sebastian went Roo shooting with one of the local kangaroo cullers and one of the roos that was shot had a joey in her pouch. Usually these are too young to survive or they are disposed of.
Well Sebastian asked if he could have this one as it was old enough to survive. So 'Rocky' came to live in the big city. Sebastian cared for Rocky and fed him with a syringe and a special milk formula. Rocky got to travel around in a pillow case which he quite happily hopped in and out of as the mood took him.
Because he was very young he spent a lot of time sleeping and growing and it wasn't too long before he was eating grass and bounding around the yard.
Rocky didn't mind travelling in the car so he and Seb went everywhere together and commuted out to Tara on a regular basis where Rocky had 64 acres to bound around in. He became friendly with the pigs.
Unfortunately, Rocky was becoming too much of a handful in the city. He could no longer go to work with Seb since he started with the Scaffolding firm, and there was no one who wanted the responsibility of looking after Rocky at home. So a new home was found for Rocky, not too far from where we live in Brisbane, with some people who have other kangaroos for Rocky to socialise with.
Seb had spoken to a WIRES representative who had told him that a domesticated roo will not survive in the wild if it is let go on its own and that they need to be set free in a mob of 5 or 6 for them to have a chance of survival.
It was a great experience to have such a gentle animal around but in the end city life was just too confining for such a magnificent animal and although it was with much sadness that Seb's little friend had to go I am sure Rocky will be happier with room to move.
2 comments:
hi, I am studying abroad in NSW from America where I am a big hunter...I have been looking all over the internet for somewhere i could hunt kangaroo when i came across your story of your grandson who went out with a culler from your town...do many cullers allow people to come along with them or would this man consider allowing others to come with him also? Any information would help as I am very hopefull to hunt before I return to the states.
So you understand how gentle these animals are, yet you slaughter them? You "dispose" of the joeys normally - after ripping them from their dead mothers whom you have killed?
Do you not see what you have done?
Not all shooters feel the need to kill defenseless animals, you show that you can care for your grand children yet in the blink of an eye you extinguish a precious and unique life as if worthless, as if throwing away a piece of garbage.
The legacy you leave in this life is your children and grand children, the damage you do to them by not valuing life is more than you can estimate.
You have an opportunity at this time to change the legacy you have left them, I appeal to the better side of yourself to never draw your weapon unless the target in front of you is of the paper or clay variety.
You can't undo what you have done, but you can stop yourself repeating the same mistakes.
Please, think about that one little animal you didn't "dispose of" and how every single one that you did - has had their one and only life taken by you. You don't have to do this, somewhere deep down you know that you can give to the world instead of taking. For the sake of your children and grandchildren I hope you can be worth more than your worst deed.
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