You had to take precautions on the Alabama (United States) motorways this Tuesday evening. A kangaroo on the run Has closed a whole section, before the state police officers and its owner attack the capricious animal.
As reported by the Alabama law application agency, relayed by Associated Pressa kangaroo was seen on Tuesday in the process of jump along the interstate 85a highway from this state in the south-east of the United States. Traffic was paralyzed and the authorities were forced to close this fast way in both directions, for the safety of motorists.
“An adorable little beast”
” When Someone told me there was a kangarooof course, I didn’t believe it, and no one believed in it. But I am looking at him right now, “said the Sheriff of Macon County, Andre Brunson, in a live video on Facebook, when the animal is captured.
The latter was Arrested using tranquilizerbefore being brought back to its owner, present on the scene. The female kangaroo, named Sheila, was in fact “a pet” who had fled from his enclosure. “We see a bit of everything here,” summed up on Facebook Andre Brunson.
“We see a little bit of everything here.”
Macon County Sheriff Andre’ Brunson was on the scene as a runaway kangaroo shut down a stretch of interstate in Alabama on Tuesday before state troopers and the animal’s owner wrangled the wayward marsupial. https://t.co/IL55eECIDW pic.twitter.com/mvgPbEN83C
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“She returned healthy and saved. She is standing. She is no longer under sedative. She eats. She drinks. She is not injured, “said the owner of the animal, Patrick Starr to Associated Press. The kangaroo was treated by the Collège de Medicine Veterinary at the University of Auburn.
The owner, who has a pumpkin field and a children’s zoo, of which Sheila is not part, kept the animal alongside him. “It’s an adorable little beast. I’m glad she’s back home, ”said Patrick Starr.
