Something Besides A Cougar On Loose

Usually, when people in the area see a wild animal, it’s a cougar. (Well, usually, it’s not, but they think they see a cougar.)

But in Berks County right now, there’s apparently a wallaby on the loose. Wallabies are native to Australia and Papua New Guinea, and the Lehigh Valley Zoo said they are not currently missing any of them.

So how’d the animal get to the Philadelphia exurbs? A member of the Berks Co. humane society said somebody probably bought the animal on the Internet as a pet. How the hell does that work? Does the postal service ship wallabies? (Maybe there’s a special “Wallaby Rate.”)

Anyway, if you see the wallaby, be sure to go up and hug it. Or, ahh, not.

“They’re violent when confined or restrained,” humane society officer Dylan Heckart said Tuesday, noting wallabies’ powerful kicking legs. “They can definitely injure a human being badly.”

Sounds like a great pet!

Where’s That Wiley Wallaby? [CBS 3]