[Mishmash] Kangaroo & Davids pics

[LCRochelle2 at aol.com]

The bears are the same way in some of our National Parks. Being around  
humans on a constant basis makes them somewhat tame,  but I have heard  accounts 
that they get a little aggressive wanting handouts sometimes. I  wouldn't want 
to feed the bear, I might not have enough food for  him.  :-)
 
Linda

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_ (mailto:fatkinson at mishmash.com)  
To: _Mishmash_ (mailto:mishmash at mishmash.net)  
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_ (mailto:ieholzman at verizon.net)  
To: _Mishmash_ (mailto:mishmash at mishmash.net)  
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_ (mailto:LCRochelle2 at aol.com)  
To: _mishmash at mishmash.net_ (mailto: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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