Do people in australia really have kangaroos in their backyard??

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idontlike_idiots

yep
roo's in the back yard
koala's in the front yard
wombat's under the house
& if you have a swimming pool crock's in that

Em P

OMG Ok well I am Australian.
People who live on farms have alot of kangaroos around trying to get close to water because of the drought, there arent literally kangaroos in every Australians backyard, only in rural settings usually. However i live in a rural town and there arent usually ever kangaroos in town they are on the outskirts.
Kangaroos are actually considered pests by some people because there are so many of them!!
** Why did i get two thumbs down!? i was being serious, in rural places they can be in backyards, but its rare in cities! I am from the country thank you, im not some city person!!**

skye

yes, I do. looking at them feeding out my window right now, but i live outback oz

moblet

No. The drop bears kill them.

yahwhoon

Ofcourse we have, got snakes to and Koala's, Wombats, Wallabies, Galahs, Crocodiles and more, its great mate!!

Serena

Erm...depends on where you live.No,people in the city don't have kangaroos hopping around their backyards.But in rural areas,it's not uncommon to see some out in the fields of your property.People who live in rural areas (like me),often see native wildlife around,like snakes,kangaroos,koalas etc.

tentofield

The city in Australia with the reputation for kangaroos in back and front yards is Canberra, the capital. The kangaroos are quite common particularly in the drought.

I get the occasional kangaroo in the backyard, they come across from the golf course across the road. I don't, however, live in a city or a large town.

Sparky5115

I live within 1 hour of a major city and the ocean.

I have kangaroos in my backyard (and front yard) on a daily basis.

Also fresh water yabbies, possums, rabbits, hares, bandicoots, wwallabies, red and grey kangaroos, owls, bats, tawny frogmouths, eagles, hawks, foxes and a HUGE variety of Australian bird life such as rosellas, cockatoos and rainbow lorrikeets.

I don't live in the middle of nowhere, but I don't live in the middle of a major city either.

There are always dead kangaroos, possums, rabbits and foxes on the roadsides every day. It's so sad.

kllr.queen

My dad accidentally ran over a mother Roo when I was little, and we looked after two Joeys until they could be set free at a farm. They did not return to the wild and ended up dying prematurely there. So sometimes yes to the Kangaroos in back yards thing. I live in Perth which has one of the highest bushland/housing ratios of any capital city in the country. We get Roos living on Golf courses here, and I remember a news report about one on the freeway, but it was only once.

Koalas are not capable of living in telephone poles in case you were wondering.They have a highly specialised, low calorie diet and cannot be to far away from there food source.

The Yowie is the East coast version of a Bigfoot in Aboriginal legend. I don't think the Noongar people have this concept but I could be wrong (and would be interested to hear if anyone knows)

Drop bears are a myth told to frighten pretty tourist girls into standing that little bit closer to big tough Aussie guys

mrspiderman200

no man,u made me laught but we have mouse instead

Ken E

There is a little truth to this but it depends where you live. I have had two roos in the front yard - it is unfenced, but never in the fenced back yard. Both roos were just passing through. The house is near a reserve which connects to a "nature park" with a big hill in the middle of it. Then there is a six lane expressway, which the roos probably crossed somehow from the rural areas about two miles (say 3km) further away. I have lived in several towns and I had not seen a roo in any town for a long time before that, and then it was just once.

In the tiny town where my parents live they sometimes had a koala in a tree in the front yard. They lived near the edge of the town. One hot day the neighbour's dog was barking furiously, because the koala was taking a shower under the lawn sprinkler next door.

But mostly what we get are birds. The parrots are eating the nearly ripe apples on my tree. There are magpies and currawongs, mynahs and honey eaters. The mynahs like to swoop on dogs, but most dogs don't seem to be bothered.

Klingon Atheist

Yes! We also have Croc's in our pools and Kookaburra's in our bird cages. Not to mention the koala's on centre point tower, dingo's roaming the streets of Sydney, .....

You ask a silly question you're bound to get a silly answer. Only an American could believe a thing like that...

BOB

Depends where in Australia you live, but its not uncommon to have kangaroos, wallabies, possums & koalas in your 'backyard'.

We had all of those at our cabin on Kangaroo Island South of Adelaide.

LOL... dunno what prat would give me a thumbs down... lmao... I'll happily post pictures for any dumbass who thinks otherwise.

Clearly its all the city folks who've never set foot outside Sydney or Brisy who are posting 'No'... lmao!

agent_starfire

yep i agree, kangaroos survived either in the zoo or the wild

auburn

I live near the ocean in Victoria Australia. It is a rural area although the real country people of victoria describe our area as seaside. I am about 15 kilometres from the nearest town and I sure do have kangaroos in my backyard. I even had one in my front yard a few months ago. There are signs on the roads and you have to be very careful driving at dawn and dusk as they jump out in front of the car. They can make a real mess of a car and I have had a couple of near misses. My husband hit one last year and dinted the massive bullbar on the truck.
When my dad was alive and living next door he phoned my husband to go help him as he had had a very large Kangaroo hop through his place in the middle of the day and his German Sheppard had made chase. The Roo was going so fast it forgot to jump the back fence and slammed straight into it. It dropped dead instantly. So my husband had to help bury it as my father couldn't lift it.

The local motocross club is very near me and we have had to stop races as roo's have jumped onto the track in the middle of a race. One poor teenager was racing a Hare Scramble which is through the bush when he hit one. Knocked himself out and killed the roo.
So yes some of us do have Kangaroos in our backyard. We also have Koalas in our trees and they growl at night. The noise is really strange.

>--Trace--->

NO we dont

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