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Family stunned as kangaroo smashes through house window
MELBOURNE, July 31, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – A kangaroo has shocked a sleeping
family by smashing through a bedroom window in suburban Australia and
bleeding throughout their home during a distressed late night frenzy.
Melbourne resident Mafi Ahokavo was jolted awake last weekend by a loud
noise and discovered the unlikely intruder in the house he shares with his
partner and three-year-old-son.
“We were just sleeping and out of nowhere we just hear a big bang,” he
told Channel Nine television late Monday.
The frightened roo, which cut itself on the shattered glass, bounced
through the house before collapsing from exhaustion in the home’s bathroom.
Ahokavo was able to lock it in before rescuers arrived and treated the
wounded marsupial, which they nicknamed ‘Norman’.
“Poor Norman was not all that far from open fields but took a wrong
turn… and couldn’t find his way home,” rescuer Manfred Zabinskas posted on
Facebook.
“With a barrier of houses, fences and closed gates, he saw the window as
his only passage out.”
Vets treated Norman for multiple lacerations, but on Tuesday the roo
bounced out of the enclosure on Melbourne’s outskirts where he was being
nursed back to health.
The Five Freedoms Animal Rescue raised fears the missing marsupial may be
suffering from a life-threatening case of myopathy, an illness in which a
high-stress event causes paralysis.
BSS/AFP/MR/ 1220 hrs