A 77-year-old man is believed to have been attacked by a kangaroo on Sunday on his property in Redmond, 25 kilometres north-west of Albany in the state’s Great Southern.
Police said the man had been keeping the kangaroo as a pet. The last recorded death from a kangaroo attack was in 1936.
They can be quite vicious:
People keep kangaroos as pets? They are wild animals so why would anyone do that?
Probably reared from a baby when the mother was killed by a car.(I am guessing)
Many people carry a big texta to mark a cross on road kill to show the pouch has been checked. You need a licence to keep native fauna but in the bush that is less often observed.
What’s a texta ?
Right .
This is sad because the poor man was an animal lover who cared for this Kangaroo from it being a Joey.
I often care for wild animals that are in need, but the ones I look after couldn’t do me much harm. I suspect this man felt the same about his Kangaroo.
Those red kangaroos are big ( I don’t know if it was a red .) and pack a horrendous punch and a kick with their huge feet would do terrible damage .
The trouble is with wild animals they are in fact wild .
I have watched Kangaroos on tv, some yrs ago, and I remember the Australian people, keeping well away from them, if they came into their garden, I couldn’t understand for the life of me why, then they showed just how powerful these Kangaroos are!.
That is a very sad story of the gentleman losing his life, my thoughts are with his family.
I don’t believe you can ever truly tame a wild animal, do you?
My son has a couple of wallabies ( I dont know what they are but they are not that big ) that comes to his garden everyday . In fact I think they might live there .
They are not tame they are wild .
This is such a shame. The fact that such animals do change when they grow older and no matter how tame you think they are, or what loyalty / friendship you think they have for you, all goes for nothing when the wild instinct comes to the fore. This goes for all animals, but I’m thinking of chimps or other primates that people keep as pets “because they are cute”.
Funny thing, I will be taking my visitors to Symbio Wildlife Park (just north of Wollongong) so they can feed Kangaroos, pat Wombats, hold snakes and cuddle Koalas, later we will undoubtedly go to places with wild roos where we will keep our distance.
Bloody expensive place to visit.
I believe the Roo’s hold you with their front paws and disembowel you
with their back kicking legs ??
If you lay on the ground they are harmless !! 
You have obviously never seen their front claws
Donkeyman, you need to widen your social circle and indulge in afternoon tea at the local eating establishment. 
Take note of this song when trying to tame wild animals everyone…
