Kangaroo back and safe at home
Created: 07/24/2022, 18:42
By: Peter Schiebel
Back again: With this photo, the runaway wallaby was publicly searched for.
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The kangaroo that has been missing for almost two weeks is back.
The runaway had apparently spent around eleven days in the forest between Herrsching and Breitbrunn.
Breitbrunn – The wallaby that escaped from the Schernthaner estate in Breitbrunn is back.
After a good eleven days, the adventure for the approximately three-year-old animal came to an end this weekend.
The kangaroo is apparently unharmed back in the stable.
On Saturday, he was informed that the animal had been seen by a walker in a fenced-in area in the forest between Herrsching and Breitbrunn, Josef Schernthaner (42) reported yesterday afternoon to Starnberger Merkur.
He then contacted the police.
The officials, in turn, called in a veterinarian who stunned the wallaby with an arrow from an anesthetic gun on Sunday morning.
"I was able to pick up the wallaby there just before 12 noon," said Schernthaner.
After carrying the animal, which weighed almost twenty kilograms, to a transporter, he drove it back to the estate.
The kangaroo, which is about 60 centimeters tall, was initially isolated there yesterday.
"The vet advised to keep it separate from the other wallabies for now," Schernthaner explained.
The other wallabies are "Ignaz" and "Schorschi", who also live on the farm.
He now has to think of a name for the breakaway, said Schernthaner.
Originally he got two wallabies from a breeder behind Weilheim.
After the escape came number three - "we didn't want the other animal to be alone".
Now, if possible, a gang of three should delight visitors to the estate, where donkeys, chickens, sheep and, above all, woolly pigs live and where a summer festival took place yesterday for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic.
There were "tens of calls" after his partner Verena Flatischler launched a search call on Instagram a week ago on Tuesday, Schernthaner said.
TV stations have also reported.
There were even indications of the wallaby from Icking, Olching and Fischen.
Apparently it was only about a mile from the estate the whole time.
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