Deer, raccoons, squirrels. These are all animals that one might expect to see captured on a security camera in Kentucky. A wallaby on the loose? Not so much.
Chavies, Kentucky resident Lexie Mullins posted a video Nov. 9 from her backyard security camera to Facebook showing a rather unusual sighting: A marsupial – initially identified as a kangaroo – hopping on by. Three days later, the wallaby was back again, its walkabout through Eastern Kentucky apparently ongoing.
As for what a wallaby, native to Australia and from the same family as kangaroos and quokkas, was doing in Kentucky, officials said the wallaby was an escaped pet.
“They had a valid transportation permit when they brought the animal into Kentucky from Tennessee and the species is not on the list of prohibited exotic species,” said a spokesperson from the Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources.
On Tuesday evening, though, the wallaby’s sojourn came to an end.
East Kentucky Thermal Drone Recovery announced that they had recovered the wallaby and returned it to the animal’s owners.
