Menagerie keeper adds 'roo pouch to outfits

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[JoeProBono]

Christina Cooper's constant companion these days is a foundling kangaroo named Skippy, who was rejected by his mother at a wildlife park in Folsom.

Inside the canvas carryall over Cooper's shoulder is an artificial kangaroo pouch for the 6-month-old red kangaroo.

It's demanding duty - Skippy must be fed every four hours.

[JoeProBono]

This June 8, 2009 photo released by the Global Wildlife Center shows Skippy, a red kangaroo joey, almost a month after he was found, rejected by his mother, in the kangaroo enclosure at a wildlife tourist attraction in Folsom, La. Christina Cooper, manager of Global Wildlife Center, is using a kangaroo feeding nipple without a hole in it as a pacifier, and teaching Skippy how to hold it.

[BubbaBasher]

Let’s all say it together... awwwww

[GovernmentShrinker]

using a kangaroo feeding nipple without a hole in it as a pacifier, and teaching Skippy how to hold it

Wouldn't Skippy be more incentivized to learn to hold the thing if it had a hole in it and contained milk? Then after he learns to hold it, he could be provided with an empty one for non-feeding times.

[mysterio]

Cute little bugger.

[JoeProBono]

‘ROO AWAKENING Tijana, a 6-month-old baby kangaroo, in her incubator at the Belgrade Zoo. The infant kangaroo fell out of her mother’s pouch and is now being fed with special milk donated by Australia, the United States and Germany. (Photo by Srdjan Ilic/AP via the NY Times) 2 months ago