Raylene was walking her two dogs early in the morning when a kangaroo attacked and drowned one of the boxers. This is her warning every pet owner needs to hear
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A devastated dog owner is speaking out to warn Australians about the dangers of kangaroos after one of her boxers was viciously attacked and killed.
Raylene Main, 72, walked with Lenny and Logan around the estuary in the small coastal suburb of Port Noarlunga, 30 kilometers south of Adelaide, just before Christmas.
But her normally peaceful morning routine turned into tragedy when her stray pets spotted some kangaroos at the Onkaparinga River Reserve and went to take a look.
“And while Lenny was coming back, two-year-old Logan went over the edge of the river and never came back,” Mrs. Main said. The advertiser.
Raylene Main was walking her two dogs, Logan and Lenny (pictured), when they came across kangaroos
Raylene Main (pictured) warns dog owners to keep an eye on their pets when they are around kangaroos
She frantically searched for hours for her missing two-year-old dog and even enlisted the help of a friend who had drones.
‘That afternoon around 4:30 pm, almost ten hours after he went missing, my friend found him in the water. He was drowned by the kangaroo,” she said.
‘I had visions of him being attacked and bleeding to death, but this was so different. It’s just something you don’t expect.’
Ms Main has since heard that at least three other dogs have been drowned by kangaroos in the area in recent years.
The retired real estate agent believes suburban development has forced kangaroos into built-up areas and has noticed ‘there are so many more of them’.
She is now urging pet owners to watch out for dogs around kangaroos.
Two months before Logan’s heartbreaking loss, a video of a man saving his dog from being drowned by a kangaroo was posted to TikTok by Victoria’s Mildura Martial Arts school.
The video shows a ‘two-metre-long kangaroo’ holding a dog underwater before the man approaches to save his pet.
They both reached the river bank safely and unharmed.
A Tik Tok video posted a few months before Logan was murdered showed a man saving his dog from a kangaroo that was drowning him
Two-year-old Logan was drowned by a kangaroo during his morning walk