WILLIAMSTOWN, N.J. — It’s a happy ending for Rex, the missing wallaby from Williamstown.<\/p>\n
Owners of Lots of Love Farm said the 3-year-old wallaby was found Tuesday night near the Walmart where he was last spotted.<\/p>\n
“If this just didn’t become the best night ever! With the help of some really cool kids and a really cool dad. We caught rex at the Walmart!! He is home safe and sound! Thank you everyone you’re all amazing. He must really like Walmart,” said Lots of Love Farm in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n
Klarissa Harper of Franklinville was among the shoppers who saw Rex on Monday in the Walmart parking lot.<\/p>\n
“I was just picking up milk for my little brother. My mom sent me here,” Harper said. “And I’m leaving the parking lot, and I look over, and something’s hopping in front of my car.”<\/p>\n
Harper said she immediately grabbed her phone, thinking she must be seeing things.<\/p>\n
“I couldn’t contain my excitement for this whatever – like it’s a kangaroo,” she said.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t a kangaroo, but Rex, which escaped from Lots of Love Farm, a petting zoo and animal sanctuary located about a half-mile away.<\/p>\n
“Everybody sees a goat. Not too many people see a wallaby,” said owner Ron Layden.<\/p>\n
Layden said Rex had been moved to a different enclosure because of the cold, but “the cage didn’t get all the way shut.”<\/p>\n
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