Family in Kangaroo Island raises orphaned joey found in dead mother's pouch

Tiffany Banton, 33, recovered the parent kangaroo lying connected the broadside of a roadworthy aft being deed by a car successful December 2023, with the joey sticking retired of the pouch.

A pistillate has been hand-raising an orphaned babe kangaroo aft rescuing her from the pouch of her dormant mother.

Tiffany Banton, 33, recovered the parent kangaroo lying connected the broadside of a roadworthy aft being deed by a car successful December 2023, with the joey sticking retired of the pouch. Tiffany and her girl Maggie, seven, person been caring for the kangaroo ever since.

Tiffany, a mother-of-three from Kangaroo Island, South Australia, said: "We named her Star aft the roadworthy wherever we recovered her. She was conscionable 9 months aged astatine the clip and present she's 18 months and increasing strong."

With the assistance of a peculiar look from a vet, the household has bottle-fed Star, with Maggie playing a cardinal relation successful caring for the joey. Tiffany said: "Maggie is precise maternal and loves tiny animals, truthful she took Star nether her wing, ever wanting to provender her and look aft her."

Star has besides formed a peculiar enslaved with the household canine Hazel and they adjacent slumber successful the aforesaid furniture together. Tiffany said: "They've grown up unneurotic and their enslaved is lovely."

"Star doesn't similar being unsocial and volition find idiosyncratic successful the location to beryllium with. Either she is connected Maggie's furniture oregon successful the the dog's furniture with Hazel. And if she is unsocial she makes a dependable to marque definite we travel find her."

The household had unsocial challenges raising the joey including toilet grooming and keeping her lukewarm with an electrical broad to simulate the warmth of a mother's pouch. Tiffany said, "We had to stimulate her by rubbing her bum to assistance her wee and poop, conscionable similar a parent kangaroo would bash successful the pouch."

As Star continues to grow, she's dilatory starting to walk much clip successful the wild. Tiffany said: "She stays with america during the day, but astatine nighttime she goes disconnected into the wild, and yet she'll halt coming back."