kangaroo attack

I hope she is alright. and am not making light of your particular situation.

If would love to borrow the roo tho, my MIL needs a good flogging.

Tho i think she could KO the poor beast by round 5.

sigh...

Sounds like M.I.L. was doing all the right things. Like any wild animal sometimes they respond without warning especially when they might fell threatened or isolated from 'the mob'. Yes a timely warning for all to be alert - not alarmed !!

How long did it take you to train the skippy to do that Brian??? Ha!!

Sorry mate, couldn't resist. I hope the MIL makes a full recovery. I have witnessed a roo attack my brother years ago and a big male can be quite aggressive if they are in the wrong mood.

BW

I can still remember being at the wildlife park near Victor Harbor with my sister 30 years ago or so. My sister had a roo come over and give her 5 of the best left right combo's you would ever likely see. She was about 8 i think. She had considerable bruising to her face and i always told her it must have been a boxing kangaroo.
Anyway sorry to hear about the MIL Brian.

Very scary. I hope she is ok!
What can she do to prevent this sort of thing from happening again?
We've had a few concerning encounters with Kangaroo's in the past.
One time a lone male roo in an open field - quite a fair distance from Richard and I and the four kids, came hopping slowly across to us and raised himself up showing off his muscles.
Richard seemed more fascinated than concerned but I definitely felt threatened.
I ended up jumping up and down waving my arms screaming like a banshee at it, which terrified the kids and sent them all scattering to hide in pit toilets and under camp chairs.
The roo took one look at me and must have thought "What the heck is THAT?" and took off as well - luckily.
Probably NOT the best thing to do....but I have to wonder - in such a circumstance - if you feel threatened by one, well, what is the suggested course of action?
We WERE backing away heading back to camp but it followed us.
I'm sure it was a "territory" issue.
I'm never sure what to tell the kids - except to be wary, but...how can you really defend or protect yourself once an attack is imminent?

"We believe they just surprised each other and the animals fight or flight instincts took over."

Kangaroos can not retreat backwards. They can only go forward. As the roo was surprised, may bee it felt cornered and had to attack to clear an escape path. this would not be the first time a roo has attacked when there was no straight forward escape path.

PeterD

I hope she is Ok as well..... But the funny thing I heard about this was the local Cop on TV said "What should we do, organise a roo line up ?"

I can remember about 4 years ago we were camped on the Blackwood River (out back from Sues Bridge) It was New Years Eve and we had all had one or two too many. Our camp fire was a litle to one side of our campers, vehicles and tent - about 1am we all decided to go to bed and a BIG grey stumbled through the middle of the camp - I am not sure who was more surprised. The following morning we realised the harm that could have been done had the Roo panicked

A bit more work for the Roo Shooters..I guess


Cheers
Bucky