Cork Kangaroo.

kneemos

Or a really really really large rat.


https://www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-news/watch-kangaroo-spotted-hopping-around-16615198

Rubberchikken

handsome:)

suicide_circus

the people of cork with rue the day

Yer Da sells Avon

Apparently it's not a kangaroo - it's a wallaby.

(a wallaby is just someone who really wants to be a kangaroo)

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Seems to be a Wallaby but it won't stand a chance if the Lynx comes across it.

Tony ‘Doc’ Shiels reported claims of a lynx in Co. Cork

Graces7

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

Apparently it's not a kangaroo - it's a wallaby.

(a wallaby is just someone who really wants to be a kangaroo)

We had wallabies free ranging and breeding in the UK

These are the ones we used to see

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1198642/Return-wallabies-Pictures-prove-Aussie-marsupials-hopped-oblivion--Peak-District.html

But many other colonies exist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_kangaroo

Maybe one stowed away. ...

blinding

Langaroo to You !

iwillhtfu

Graces7 wrote: »

We had wallabies free ranging and breeding in the UK

These are the ones we used to see

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1198642/Return-wallabies-Pictures-prove-Aussie-marsupials-hopped-oblivion--Peak-District.html

But many other colonies exist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_kangaroo

Maybe one stowed away. ...

Sure we have our own out on Lambay Island we don't need your british ones :P

Kermit.de.frog

Hope that roo is not pregnant.

Revenge shall be uncompromising.

long_b

"How's it going boi..iiiinnnnnggg?"

Graces7

iwillhtfu wrote: »

Sure we have our own out on Lambay Island we don't need your british ones :P

https://www.thejournal.ie/wallabies-lambay-island-2-3516673-Jul2017/

Oh lovely!

and a garden centre I was at has them also.. John Hosford, Cork,, maybe his escaped..

we used to go out to the Peak District at weekends and were always looking out for wallabies!

corks finest

Be in the pot soon I reckon- east Cork hungry whures

branie2

Boing! Boing! Boing!

Mickeroo

Presumably a Fota escapee.

blinding

Bung Bung Bung = Irish Political Kangaroo .

Oafley Jones

Mickeroo wrote: »

Presumably a Fota escapee.

Apparently not. Fota have claimed they've accounted for all of there's.

Coincidently, I finally got round to reading Jurassic Park last week. This is exactly how the book begins... except with kangaroos here. I can only presume carnage will now follow.

namenotavailablE

Probably looking for directions to Skippereen

Graces7

Oafley Jones wrote: »

Apparently not. Fota have claimed they've accounted for all of there's.

Coincidently, I finally got round to reading Jurassic Park last week. This is exactly how the book begins... except with kangaroos here. I can only presume carnage will now follow.

Then it will be John Hosfords

http://www.manicmammy.com/tag/hosfords/

blinding

This is an Omen that FF are back. Don’t Kangaroos have a slot for Brown Envelopes ?

MyStubbleItches

namenotavailabl wrote: »

Probably looking for directions to Skippereen

Or Hop Island.

the beer revolu

namenotavailabl wrote: »

Probably looking for directions to Skippereen

Go straight through Leap.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

There are many parks and 'pet' farms around the country that have wallaby. It could be from several in Cork.

ofcork

Hosfords closed 4 or 5 years ago.

Graces7

ofcork wrote: »

Hosfords closed 4 or 5 years ago.

oh OK; was many years I traded there...Is he OK? Good man ..lovely place ..

Phileas Frog

I think people need to look at a map if they think an escaped Wallaby from either Bandon or Fota ended up in Kilworth...

Graces7

Phileas Frog wrote: »

I think people need to look at a map if they think an escaped Wallaby from either Bandon or Fota ended up in Kilworth...

Those critters can travel and no indication as to how long it has been liberated..

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Phileas Frog wrote: »

I think people need to look at a map if they think an escaped Wallaby from either Bandon or Fota ended up in Kilworth...

It could be one of those stealth wallaby, travelling at night and using the hidden 'underground' routes through Cork. Or lots of people have seen it in the weeks it has been browsing it's way across the county but all thought it was a large hare.

kneemos

Dream Nice Rosemary wrote: »

It could be one of those stealth wallaby, travelling at night and using the hidden 'underground' routes through Cork. Or lots of people have seen it in the weeks it has been browsing it's way across the county but all thought it was a large hare.

The hell kind of hares do they have in Cork?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

kneemos wrote: »

The hell kind of hares do they have in Cork?

Whoosh!!!!

Huge ones. With longer tails than the usual Irish Mountain Hare. :rolleyes:

It's the only explanation of how this Wallaby could have covered any significant distance and been at large for any length of time without being reported.



Wallaby don't cover great distances the way Kangaroos do, so it is more than likely from close by. They're a cure to catch once they get out though. In 2012 they had to dart two that escaped in Antrim.

blinding

Is this some sort of moving statue phenomenon ?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Spotted at the Open this afternoon

Pa ElGrande

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iio-5fHo3rY

Wallabies find new home in the wild in France

blinding

Dream Nice Rosemary wrote: »

Spotted at the Open this afternoon

I have been that drunk a few times . Ok , not lately .

harry Bailey esq

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

Apparently it's not a kangaroo - it's a wallaby.

(a wallaby is just someone who really wants to be a kangaroo)

That deserved way more thanks than it got.
There's a colony of them on lambay island, bloke in the pub told me they swam all the way from Australia, another fella told me that The Revelstokes introduced them but yer man's a bit of a spoofer so I'm inclined to take the word of the first bloke. Either way, there's definitely a good few of them on the island. I think you can visit by appointment only through skerries historical society during the summer months.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

It's confirmed as having escaped from Araglin Animal sanctuary. So, didn't travel too far at all.

TheValeyard

This thread made me read more about Kangaroos.

They seem to be abit d1ickish with the whole drowning dogs thing.

Graces7

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

That deserved way more thanks than it got.
There's a colony of them on lambay island, bloke in the pub told me they swam all the way from Australia, another fella told me that The Revelstokes introduced them but yer man's a bit of a spoofer so I'm inclined to take the word of the first bloke. Either way, there's definitely a good few of them on the island. I think you can visit by appointment only through skerries historical society during the summer months.

googled it.

https://www.thejournal.ie/wallabies-lambay-island-2-3516673-Jul2017/

fascinating story.

kneemos

TheValeyard wrote: »

This thread made me read more about Kangaroos.

They seem to be abit d1ickish with the whole drowning dogs thing.

Seems fair if you're been attacked. They see dogs as predators,so self defense.

https://youtu.be/5FVwWffPTQw

blinding

kneemos wrote: »

Seems fair if you're been attacked. They see dogs as predators,so self defense.

https://youtu.be/5FVwWffPTQw

That Kangaroo is way smarter than that dog . Under the circumstances , you can hardly blame the Kangaroo .

biko

Cork’s wandering wallaby Dora home ‘safe and sound’
Owner expresses relief after he captures marsupial near Kilworth village

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/cork-s-wandering-wallaby-dora-home-safe-and-sound-1.3963674

RobbingBandit

I'd say she's up the duff after all that waltzing around

Ten of Swords

The guy was left in shock and thought he might be drunk? FFS!

Graces7

biko wrote: »

Cork’s wandering wallaby Dora home ‘safe and sound’
Owner expresses relief after he captures marsupial near Kilworth village

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/cork-s-wandering-wallaby-dora-home-safe-and-sound-1.3963674

You just beat me to it