Oshawa’s great kangaroo mystery: Hunt underway for marsupial no one says is missing

Global News ^ | December 1, 2023 3:45 pm | Isaac Callan & Gabby Rodrigues

[Squawk 8888]

Locals in Oshawa, Ont., have been left searching for answers and marsupials after a kangaroo appeared to have been spotted in the city.

A local pet search group shared a video on Friday morning, suggesting a Kangaroo had been seen on Winchester Road in Oshawa just before 8 a.m.

The video posted by pet group, Team Chelsea, was one of several apparent sightings of the Australian animal.

Another video submitted by a viewer to Global News shows what appears to be a kangaroo standing at the end of a driveway. The five-second video is shot from a passenger side window. The viewer said they saw the animal on a driveway near Winchester Road East and Harmony Road North.

[Squawk 8888]

Video at source.

[BradyLS]

Lock up your dogs! ‘Roo on the loose!

[null and void]

Hey! Send the judge back to the good ol’ USA!

[Ken H]

It could be Bigfeet.

[TigersEye]

It’s gotta be a little cold in Ontario for a roo this time of year.
Hope it has a good seal skin coat!

[Ezekiel]

a driver was delivering two kangaroos to Quebec on Thursday and stopped at Oshawa Zoo to let them “stretch their legs.”

It's kind of like that song...

Get your kicks on roo 66.

Timely tip:

“If you see the kangaroo, do not approach. Please call Team Chelsea 905-666-4676,” police told Global News.

[Rennes Templar]

The lost one is just looking for his roo-mate.

[BiteYourSelf]

Tie your kangaroo down mate
Tie your kangaroo down.🤪

[verum ago]

So the title and body of the article make a big deal of the “mystery” of this stray kangaroo’s origin, yet buried toward the end:

Durham police added that, while they had no involvement in the hunt for the kangaroo, a driver was delivering two kangaroos to Quebec on Thursday and stopped at Oshawa Zoo to let them “stretch their legs.”
During the stop, however, “one of the kangaroos managed to escape and has been sighted multiple times today.”

What a, uh, coincidence.

[Nateman]

The cold will kill it.

[Squawk 8888]

Not necessarily, but our winter habitat probably would. Most zoos here have no problems keeping Australian marsupials in outdoor pens with open, sheltered spaces that they can access in extreme cold. The real issue is the lack of forage here away from urbanized areas; they would probably survive here in Toronto.

Oz itself is mostly a temperate climate and in the south can even get below freezing in winter.

[Ezekiel]

Another video submitted by a viewer to Global News shows what appears to be a kangaroo standing at the end of a driveway.

Dangerous 'hood. Had his pocket picked, and then he got jumped. You'd think the sound of hip hop bouncing off the walls would have tipped him off, but that would be roosist.

[SunkenCiv]

The idea of a wild kangaroo on the loose could make Canadians jumpy. I wonder what this is aboot.

[moovova]

This is what the climate crisis gets you folks...kangaroos in Ontario.