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Friday 4th August 2006 Introduction to Margarita, the orphaned kangaroo This is a bittersweet story.......... I was out on tour with two lovely Italian couples on their honeymoon and Jon our driver suggested we drive along Starrs Road where there would be a fairly good chance of spotting some kangaroos in the scrub alongside the road........ so, there we were, all merrily chatting away and getting to know each other in the car when Jon said he had spotted a kangaroo lying down behind some roadside vegetation... We pulled over to catch a glimpse of the kangaroo and Jon noticed that the kangaroo looked like it was having problems moving....... so he pulled up ahead of the spot to have a look and we both looked at each other with that awful feeling in our hearts as to what we suspected he would find....... It was indeed the very tragic reality of a kangaroo which had obviously been hit by a car and left to die in agony in a slow and awful manner. Jon had to put it out of its misery and as he did so, he checked to see if it was a female and sure enough found a little joey in her pouch. There was a little joey, about 5 months old in the female's pouch. The joey was still without her fur coat and so it would have died if we had left her there with her mum, there was no way she would survive the next couple of days. We wrapped her up in Jon's jumper and took her to Bev Turner at Emu Ridge, the eucalyptus farm just down the road. Bev has had a lot of experience raising orphaned joeys of all sorts (kangaroos, wallabies and possums) so we knew she would do a good job of looking after the joey. Giuliana and Domenico, Francesca and Riccardo were still devastated by the experience and very reluctant to leave the joey but saw that Bev knew what she was doing. They got to name the joey and chose the name Margarita which would be an easy enough name for anyone to say but would still have a strong connection to Italy.  • From L - R : Domenica, Giuliana, Margarita in Jon's arms, Francesca and Riccardo. • Honorary "parents" Domenica and Giuliana (holding Margarita) with Bev (Margarita's new mum). Bev has promised to keep us updated with Margarita's progress and will send me pics to post up here on this page. Thankfully the rest of the day turned out to be a stunning day, beautiful weather and lots of wildlife sightings. We went on to Seal Bay and there were lots of gorgeous pups cavorting around and being playful and everyone had a good time. Then on to lunch, koala spotting, we even saw a joey with its mum that day, lots of wallabies with their little joeys emerging from mums' pouches and of course to top it off...... we had a grandstand view of a laidback koala pretty low down on the fork of a big branch which just about capped the day........ Stay tuned.......and check for updates here Originally published at Kangaroo Island Online, Thanks Bea! |
All news about the orphan kangaroos:
Tuesday 23rd March 2010 LunaTuesday 2nd March 2010 Rosie
Saturday 23rd January 2010 Bob and Luna
Wednesday 23rd December 2009 Bob and Luna
Friday 23rd October 2009 Wallaby Bob
Wednesday 23rd September 2009 Luna
Thursday 30th July 2009 Luna
Wednesday 15th July 2009 Luna
Tuesday 30th June 2009 New Joey Luna
Thursday 30th April 2009 Nikky
Monday 13th April 2009 Nikky
Thursday 2nd April 2009 Nikky
Thursday 2nd April 2009 Maggie and Millie
Wednesday 4th March 2009 Nikky
Tuesday 24th February 2009 Maggie and Millie
Sunday 22nd February 2009 Nikky
Saturday 7th February 2009 Nikky
Wednesday 28th January 2009 Nikky in trouble
Tuesday 20th January 2009 Nikky
Thursday 8th January 2009 Maggie
Wednesday 24th December 2008 Merry Xmas MILLIE AND NIKKY
Friday 24th October 2008 NIKKY AND MILLIE
Sunday 10th August 2008 Nikky
Monday 4th August 2008 Roxy
Wednesday 4th June 2008 Roxy and Millie
Sunday 4th May 2008 Maggie
Thursday 6th March 2008 Updates on Roxy, Millie and Maggie
Tuesday 22nd January 2008 Millie
Friday 11th January 2008 Meet Millie
Thursday 27th December 2007 Merry Xmas everyone. From Rosie, Roxy, the Emus, Maggie, Larry, Bev and the staff at Emu Ridge
Monday 22nd October 2007 Latest news on Roxy, now 17 months old.
Thursday 20th September 2007 Emus are doing well
Thursday 2nd August 2007 Lonely the Emu
Wednesday 1st August 2007 Roxy Update
Tuesday 1st May 2007 JP and Roxy both doing really well!
Thursday 1st March 2007 New Comer 1st March - a brush tail possum
Friday 23rd February 2007 Update on Roxy
Monday 1st January 2007 Bad News...!!
Sunday 24th December 2006 Merry Christmas from Emu Ridge
Monday 4th December 2006 Roxy's accident
Monday 20th November 2006 Meet Ruby, another new joey kangaroo
Wednesday 8th November 2006 Roxy is thriving...!
Monday 2nd October 2006 Roxy takes over from Rita
Tuesday 26th September 2006 The end of Rita
Monday 11th September 2006 Looking after the growing Joey, Rita
Wednesday 23rd August 2006 Rita's Progress, from Bev
Tuesday 15th August 2006 Caring for Rita, from Bev
Monday 7th August 2006 This is the first update from Mama Bev..........
Friday 4th August 2006 Introduction to Margarita, the orphaned kangaroo
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