A video of an orphaned joey hopping inside a police officer’s shirt, to perhaps enjoy the makeshift pouch, has gone viral.
Const. Scott Mason of Western Australia’s Cue Police adopted the four-month-old kangaroo this week after its mother was hit by a truck in Australia. The baby roo was found in its dead mother’s pouch.
“It’s very dehydrated and skinny, but we’re doing what we can,” Const. Mason told AAP.
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The officer, who recently moved to Cue, said he would have his hands full over the next few months as his wife recently gave birth to their first child.
“Because it needs to be fed every three hours, it’s going to be my little child basically as my wife’s in Perth with our newborn,” he said. “So she’s got her newborn and I’ve got a little one as well.”
Police made a public shout-out to help name the little kangaroo, who will be released to the wild after several years of care. Mason announced that he had settled on calling the baby roo Cuejo.
“I was going to name it after my son, but my missus wasn’t too happy about that so we thought we’d put it out for everyone else to name the ‘Cue Roo’,” Const Mason told AAP.