Kangaroo intentionally run over
Sydney, NSW (AU)Incident Date: Monday, Nov 13, 2006
Disposition: Alleged
Alleged: 19 year old male
Case Updates: 1 update(s) available
Investigations are underway into an incident of animal cruelty in Sydney's west last night.
Around 10pm officers were called to a fenced area on the Northern Road, Cranebrook following reports a car was seen driving around in a fenced off area.
Police located an abandoned Holden Barina on the side of the road. In the rear of the car they found a kangaroo in a distressed state.
Upon closer inspection police found the animal was suffering from head wounds.
A vet was called and the kangaroo was sedated before being taken to a veterinary hospital with a broken foot and broken ribs.
The vehicle has been seized for further examination.
Police urge anyone who may have witnessed anything in the area around 10pm or who may have any information to contact Penrith Police on (02) 4721 9444 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
Inquiries into the incident continue.
Case UpdatesA teenager has been arrested over the death of a kangaroo, which was found in the back of an abandoned car in Sydney's west last night.
Officers found the distressed animal thrashing about in the boot section of an abandoned Holden Barina hatchback at the former ADI site on Northern Road, Cranebrook, at 10.18pm. They had been called to investigate a car being driven around in a fenced off area.
The female animal was bleeding from head wounds. Later tests at a veterinary hospital showed it also had a broken foot and broken ribs.
It was put down two hours after being admitted to the hospital.
Police said a 19-year-old was arrested this morning and is being questioned at Penrith police station.
The vet called to assist the injured animal, Mark Sayer of Railway Row Veterinary Clinic at Emu Plains, said he could not bear to watch the kangaroo cling hopelessly to life.
"I had to put it down. You have got this poor creature suffering. What are you going to do - leave it and watch it for a couple of days and then it dies?
"There was a lot of bleeding around the head and neck. She was kicking slightly when I arrived [about 11pm] at the scene but she wasn't moving around too much, I could tell she was quite heavily concussed and I sedated it.
"This is terrible, I hate seeing any animal in pain, when it's done by one of our own kind ... "
Dr Sayer was told by police that an iron bar was found in the car. He said it appeared the kangaroo had been run over and then hit on the head.
"The police told me someone might have been after pet food. The animal was deliberately targeted. They have hit it about the head but they didn't put it out of its misery. It wasn't dead and that's even worse.
"The ribs were broken. The whole left side of the animal was caved in. Its left hock [the ankle bone connecting the foot and leg] was mashed.
"When they get an injury like that, they will never walk again properly, they'll try but they will hobble around in a lot of pain. I put it down about 1.30pm."
Dr Sayer said he will decide today whether he has time to conduct a post-mortem examination on the animal. If not, the RSPCA will do it, he said. | Source: Sydney Morning Herald - Nov 14, 2006
Update posted on Nov 13, 2006 - 6:30PM |
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