A devastated dog owner is speaking out to warn Australian’s about the dangers of kangaroos after one of her boxers was viciously attacked and killed.
Raylene Main, 72, was walking Lenny and Logan around the estuary in the small sea-side suburb of Port Noarlunga, 30km south of Adelaide, just before Christmas.
But her normally peaceful morning routine turned to tragedy when her off-leash pets saw some kangaroos in the Onkaparinga River reserve and went to have a look.
‘And while Lenny came back, two-year-old Logan went over the edge of the river and never came back,’ Ms Main told The Advertiser.
Raylene Main was walking her two dogs, Logan and Lenny (pictured) when they encountered kangaroos
Raylene Main (pictured) is warning dog-owners to watch out for their pets when around kangaroos
She frantically searched for her missing two-year-old pooch for hours and even enlisted the help of a friend who had drones.
‘At about 4.30pm that afternoon, nearly 10 hours after he went missing, my friend found him in the water. He’d been drowned by the kangaroo,’ she said.
‘I had visions of him having been attacked and bleeding to death, but this was so different. It’s just something you don’t expect.’
Ms Main has since heard that at least three other dogs have been drowned by kangaroos in the area over the past few years.
The retired real estate agent believes suburban development has forced kangaroos to encroach on built-up areas and has noticed ‘there’s so many more around’.
She is now urging pet-owners to watch out for the dogs around kangaroos.
Two months before the heart-breaking loss Logan, a video was posted to TikTok by the Mildura Martial Arts school in Victoria showing a man rescuing his dog which was being drowned by a kangaroo.
The video shows a ‘7ft kangaroo’ holding a dog under water, before the man approaches to save his pet.
They both made it back to the bank of the river safely and uninjured.
A Tik Tok video posted a couple of months before Logan was killed, showed a man saving his dog from a kangaroo who was drowning it
Two-year-old Logan was drowned pictured) by a kangaroo on his morning walk