Wallaby Greets New Family on the Block
Posted on: Thursday, 9 September 2004, 06:00 CDT
KEY CENTER, Wash. - A family moving into a home west of Tacoma was greeted by an unusual welcome wagon.
A family member found a young male wallaby - a marsupial native to Australia - outside the home's rear door, authorities said.
"It was just tapping on the back door," said Sgt. Ted Jackson of the Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife on Wednesday. "We're real curious where it came from."
The wallaby was taken to the Tacoma-Pierce County Humane Society, and appears to be comfortable around humans.
"He just cuddles right up to you," said Humane Society spokeswoman Marguerite Richmond.
Animal control officers say the wallaby may have been raised as a pet, which is legal in the county, and then either escaped or was abandoned. The animal now occupies a dog kennel in the shelter's isolation wing and feeds on timothy hay and carrots.
"Ideally, he should have kangaroo pellets, but they don't have those at Top Foods," a supermarket chain, Richmond said.
If no one claims the wallaby within a day or so, the Humane Society has arranged permanent quarters at a sanctuary in Redmond.
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