Its a term I hadn't heard of, "Pinky Season" referring to the season of young kangaroos in the pouch. Ones that are pretty much unable to survive without their mother. On South Coast ABC Radio a animal rescuer lady gave details on how to save the baby roos or least give a better chance of survival. If the mother roo is in a car accident, you search the pouch and with a knife cut the mother's teat off keeping it in the "pinky's" mouth.
Then get I onto a vet clinic or animal shelter.
Wasn't long before poor Andrew Collins had more than a few calls & texts messages asking why would you? OK the first one was a little balanced than that, it was "Jack" who said the people can save all the pinkys they like but perhaps they could also visit the farms in the South West and attend to the current Kangaroo plague.
And a plague it is. For a long time pastures and crops have been improving at a massive rate, with more dams, troughs and other water sources. Better mixes of cereal crops, clovers, ryegrasses the old kangaroo never had it so good. A grazing animal, with no Apex predator above it, roo shooting for meat production virtually down the drain, their number have soared.
Its very possibly a great noble gesture that some people make that really has no helpful outcome for anyone except the individual roos that, if they survive, make it into an over populated landscape. If one were to be a altruistic scenester perhaps picking a noble cause that benefits humans of lesser privilege?
When numbers get out of control, there's more car accidents...that's why there's more Pinkies in need of rescue or euthanasia.
Clear case of how sometimes "sensitivity" over-rides "sensibility". Its indeed the case that many of these pinkies may have been better served by putting them down. If number keep rising and no meat trade is developed we'll see an increased number of roos being shot by recreational shooters and landowners to try & get numbers down.
Why would you release an adult roo, that's been raised in captivity as a "rescued pinky" to be released only to be shot because its part of a plague.
On top of this, we haven't mentioned Hydadtis worms the roos are carrying and spreading across agricultural areas. Not such a big deal out in the harsher, hotter desert country, but in the ag regions its big and worrying problem. Not good for sheep, dogs or humans.
Miracle if the small "L" liberals wise up, possibly why there's also fox rescuers in the eastern states.
Wonders never cease...and often fools prosper & spread their non-logic
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