[Mishmash] Kangaroo & Davids pics

[Fred Atkinson]

    Whether they were tamed by a professional or whether they were tamed by exposure to humans over time, they are no longer wild.  Otherwise, you would have never gotten that close I assure you.  



                                                                            Fred 

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ingrid & Eric Holzman 
  To: Mishmash 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 3:26 PM
  Subject: Re: [Mishmash] Kangaroo & Davids pics


  These weren't tamed by anyone.  I just think they decided to live harmoniously with the humans that camp there.  We experienced something similar with deer in Yosemite.

  Ingrid
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Fred Atkinson 
    To: Mishmash 
    Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 2:39 PM
    Subject: Re: [Mishmash] Kangaroo & Davids pics


        You'd never get that close to a wild one.  Only those that have been tamed are that bold.  Most of the males that are tamed have been 'de-sexed' (An my Australian friend Tom told me).  Because otherwise, look out.  




                                                                        Fred 

      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Ingrid & Eric Holzman 
      To: Mishmash 
      Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 2:28 PM
      Subject: Re: [Mishmash] Kangaroo & Davids pics


      When Eric and I were on our honeymoon in Australia, we camped at Pebbly Beach State Park.  There were kangaroos everywhere.  One night just after we went to sleep in our tent, I heard this strange sound. I unzipped the inside portion of the front door and there, in the vestibule area, was a kangaroo nestling in for the night.  He/She was cleaning him/herself.  The only thing between me and it was a thin sheet of meshlike material.  I wasn't scared.  As a matter of fact, I started laughing so hard I scared it away.  The following morning Eric tried to eat his cornflakes and found the only place high enough to keep the bowl from the kangaroos wanting some, was the top of our rental car.  They were fun and definitely made our trip very enjoyable.  Granted, I'm sure these were very tame and not the norm, but I liken them to deer.  They don't generally attack, to my knowledge, unless probably provoked or protecting their young.

      Ingrid
        ----- Original Message ----- 
        From: LCRochelle2 at aol.com 
        To: mishmash at mishmash.net 
        Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 2:10 PM
        Subject: Re: [Mishmash] Kangaroo & Davids pics


        I was interested in that question too.  All I could find was that the laws vary from State to State and even from County to County, and that you have to have a permit in most states to have a wild animal. Nothing specific on Kangaroos, but I'm sure that they would have to have a permit to be owned by anyone.  Those permits are often only given to zoo's and other places that house animals for exhibition.  

         I found in reading that a kangaroo was captured in Oklahoma and that they considered them to be "vicious animals."  Somehow I never could put a kangaroo in the "vicious animal" category, they seem to docile in watching them on the tube and at the zoo.  I never lived close to their natural habitat though.

        Linda

               Is it legal to have a kangaroo for a pet in the U.S.?  I would suspect not.  



                                                Fred 

          --- LCRochelle2 at aol.com wrote:

          From: LCRochelle2 at aol.com
          To: mishmash at mishmash.net
          Subject: [Mishmash] Kangaroo & Davids pics
          Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 13:44:56 EST

          They caught a kangaroo wandering loose in a California subdivision  today.  I 
          watched them catch it on television.  They don't know where  it came from 
          yet.  Possibly someone's pet. 

          Thank you for sharing the pictures David, I thought they were very  good.


          Linda


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