A co-worker of mine is going to spend next week house sitting his parent's country house out side of Perth in the hills. They have a few acres backed up to the national forest. They need him to feed the animals while they are away.
Some of the animals he has to feed are 15 or so pet kangaroos that his mother has. They are not totally domesticated. They run around in the forest at night doing whatever it is roos do at night in the forest (they 'play'... as Darrel puts it). They stop at his parents house in the evening for dinner before heading off to the forest. He told that his mother has been doing this for years and now she is feeding the 3rd or 4th generation of this family of roos.
He told me that if they are not fed, they get rather 'snippy' and start kicking on the front door. It that doesn't work, they then start going around the house tapping on the windows to remind the occupants that it is feeding time.
He said that you can pet the young joeys. But when they get older, you can't really play with them. They have very sharp nails on their feet and paws. And they are very strong, fast, and have a nasty kick.
I asked Darrel if he can film the roos begging for dinner. I'd like to see that!
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