Poor little joey...
I'm racing along a dirt track in a fairly remote area in Far North Queensland. I'm responding to a trail bike rider with multiple fractures and a kangaroo steps out in front of the ambulance.
Cue one suddenly very dead roo, so I drag him, or possibly her, to the side of the road and continue on to the patient. I'm telling this story later to a woman who is a carer for injured wildlife.
She asks me if I checked the pouch to see if there was an alive joey.
That never occurred to me then or before and I suffered a very restless night wondering if I had condemned a baby roo to a lonely death.

Then again, his mum did crack my headlight cover, the thoughtless bitch.
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Sun 27 Apr 2008, 15:02, 1 reply)

Buy these and save the roos and other beasts
www.austhobi.com/reviews.htm

I bought some of these and put them on my van when I drove round Aus a few years ago. I was in all sorts of places in the middle of nowhere. I missed roos, wallabies, camels, cattle and emus.

Dirt cheap and worth the saved hassle of hitting creatures.

N.B. They don't scare road trains on that dodgy single track from Tennant Creek to Mt Isa!
( b3tz, Mon 28 Apr 2008, 0:21, closed)