Wallaby surprises Kent dog-walker
The moment caught on camera
A dog walker was astonished to come across a wallaby recently, when exercising her dog in the Kent countryside.
Alex Pooley, 29, and her dog Shackleton came across the unexpected animal on a farm track in Pluckley.
She said: "We were in a field near the train station and I saw what I thought was a giant hare, but then it moved and started hopping.
"I was a bit surprised to say the least and the dog was off the lead at the time and he went off to investigate. They ran around for a couple of minutes and then he came back and I put him on the lead.
"Then I saw it hopping down the path towards us. It seemed pretty friendly and quite intrigued because it came right up to us."
Quick-thinking Ms Pooley managed to record the incident on her mobile phone, before it hopped off to pastures new.
Watch the incident here.
With Strangles Awareness Week just around the corner (5-11 May), vets are being encouraged to share a survey about the disease with their horse-owning clients.
