WA woman rescues joey from dead kangaroo’s pouch hit by a car a few days ago

Because the kangaroo is endemic to Australia, residents are used to see the animal hopping around and sometimes being hit by vehicles. To control the kangaroo population, the government even is culling almost 2,000 roos which some animal rights groups plan to protest.

Given the kangaroo being so common to Aussies, a dead kangaroo on the roadside is not a big news that motorists who saw one along Commonage Road in Dunsborough just ignored the animal corpse. However, one Western Australian resident, Chloe Enright, felt the need to stop and check the kangaroo.

She was shocked to find a three-month-old joey still alive inside the pouch. Enright gently held the baby kangaroo under her arms and pulled it out of the pouch. She noticed that the mother kangaroo, despite reports that it has been dead for a few days, was still warm, perhaps to keep her baby alive.

Enright placed the joey inside her top to keep it warm and had the animal checked by a veterinarian, reports ABC. To keep the joey – which does not have fur yet – warm, she placed a special heat pack in a warm pillow case where the baby roo sleeps.

She shares that the joey’s eyes are still closed, only opening them when she feeds the animal milk from a bottle. The incident is being used by Enright, who runs a family day care in Dunsborough, to teach children about love and compassion.

Enright advises motorists involved in accidents with kangaroos to stop and check if the animal has a baby inside its pouch. Animals Australia adds that car drivers who spot injured animals should call local wildlife rescue groups and move the animal away from the road.