{"id":55546,"date":"2025-08-09T14:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T14:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/55546\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T14:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T14:23:11","slug":"woman-peeks-into-drainage-pit-and-finds-terrified-animal-who-cant-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/55546\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Peeks Into Drainage Pit And Finds Terrified Animal Who Can’t Move"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month, a woman driving down an Australian road mistakenly hit a kangaroo crossing in front of her car. The driver felt heartbroken for the \u2018roo and quickly called Murrindindi Ranges Wildlife Shelter<\/a> for help.<\/p>\n

By the time shelter founder Kate Turner arrived at the scene, the kangaroo had crawled into a drainage pit, perhaps searching for a safe place to hide.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs I approached, he slipped back into the water and made his way into the drain,\u201d Turner wrote in a post<\/a>. \u201c[There was] no way he could get out by himself, he would have died there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Turner surveyed her options and began making a rescue plan.<\/p>\n

\u201c[I] knew this rescue was going to be physically hard, and I would be in a lot [of] pain afterwards,\u201d Turner told The Dodo. \u201cBut it had to be done \u2014 he needed help.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The rescuer waded into the freezing cold water and cradled the kangaroo in a net. Then, she gently nudged the \u2018roo out from the hole, being careful not to exacerbate any of his injuries.<\/p>\n

By the time the kangaroo was finally back on solid ground, Turner was exhausted. She decided to call a friend for backup. Aided by her pal and a local farmworker, Turner managed to load the kangaroo into her car.<\/p>\n

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Back at the shelter, the kangaroo received treatment for a fractured pelvis. Today, the \u2018roo is on the road to recovery, preparing to return to his home in the bush.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Turner\u2019s commitment, this kangaroo will soon be hopping back into the wilderness, where he belongs.<\/p>\n

To help other animals like this kangaroo, you can make a donation to the Murrindindi Ranges Wildlife Shelter.<\/a>\u00a0\"Runaway<\/a>Runaway Sheep Found Years Later Living With A Gang Of Kangaroos\u201cIt seems his kangaroo friends took good care of him.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last month, a woman driving down an Australian road mistakenly hit a kangaroo crossing in front of her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[342,64,63,341,75,3195,340,128,156,339,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-55546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animal-encounters","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-daily-dodo","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-kangaroos","14":"tag-maeve-dunigan","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-standard","17":"tag-the-dodo","18":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}