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Roxy's Kangaroo Fence

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8th May 2007

You might remember reading the awful news (below) about our hand reared orphan joey kangaroo Ruby.

Protecting our beautiful wildlife is so important! Roxy is a gentle and loving kangaroo and we really would hate to see her suffer the same fate as Ruby. As she grows she needs to be able to hop around the larger area of our farm. We have set up a PayPal account so if you would like to contribute towards our fence we would be most grateful.

If you would like to donate by some other means, please contact us.

1st January 2007

BAD NEWS but it was last year so lets hope the new year brings only good things.

Well I have some bad news we went out New Years Eve and came home at 12.30 because we had to work the next day. I got out of my car and Ruby who is now 12 months old sleeps under our verandah and before we go to bed we bring her inside as she likes to get in and out of her pouch to eat grass now. Well she wasn't in her pouch I called her and then saw the shadow of a big sheep dog. My heart just sank. I heard Roxy calling to me from inside the house and went to see her she had jumped out of her pouch and looked really upset as did our dog Rosie. The dog came to the door and Rosie growled at her I let Rosie out and she chased it away.

Unfortunately it was too late for Ruby we found her on our front lawn dead.

I am soo upset and soo angry. I didn't want to show you this but Larry my husband said that people should know what happens as it is reality. Someone obviously a neighbour has not chained their sheep dog and it has come on our property and killed our pet. It would have smelt human on her, I don't understand!

This is one of the reasons why we want to fence our farm as a sanctuary to protect our native animals. This is the third time in 14 years that this has happened to me. It is just heart breaking!

So now I am asking you. We cannot afford to fence our farm on our own and I am wondering if we make an account calling it the "Emu Ridge Ruby Fencing Fund" and donations received from people like you will go towards our fence. We will keep an update of how the fence is going through our site and something at our entrance with the donors names. To fence our whole farm we need a seven kilometre fence.