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he he. my favorite article of the day :D

Buffalo Roams Into Center's Dressing Room

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RAPID CITY, S.D. - A buffalo that escaped from an auction ended up in a dressing room at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center where it spent a couple of hours staring into a mirror.



The buffalo jumped over a steel panel during the Black Hills Stock Show & Rodeo on Sunday morning, went down an alley and got into the dressing room reserved for visiting sports teams, said Brian Maliske, the civic center's general manager.


"The door happened to be unlocked and he pushed the door open and went in," Maliske said.


The crew conducting the Black Hills Classic Buffalo Sale decided to keep the animal locked in the dressing room for the rest of the auction. During its two hour stay, it reportedly became fascinated with the image it saw in a big mirror.


Once the sale ended, a rodeo crew member coaxed the buffalo out of the dressing room and back into captivity.


The animal never got into a public area, Maliske said.
 
I'll SEE your buffalo and raise a kangaroo!

Red-haired kangaroo found in Wis. may have to stay there

Associated Press
Jan. 11, 2005 08:30 AM

MADISON, Wis. - A kangaroo that went on a walkabout of frigid Wisconsin just might settle down in the Midwest after all.

The red-haired marsupial, now known as "Roo," was captured in a snowstorm outside of Dodgeville last week. Sheriff's deputies cornered the 150-pound critter in a barn after receiving calls for days from shocked residents who had seen it.

Kangaroos can be purchased for about $1,000 or more in the United States, but no one has reported him missing.

Roo remains under quarantine at the Henry Vilas Zoo, and if no one claims it, zoo officials plan to introduce it to their other kangaroos to see if they get along.

But if things don't work out, Margaret Suter said she has room at her home near Madison, where she already keeps six kangaroos and a wallaby.

"I worried for that kangaroo. It lost its caregiver," Suter said. "And if you own one of these animals, you shouldn't turn your back on it."

Suter's kangaroos have a variety of stories - she took in one that was wounded and had one of his arms amputated. Another, named Skippy, is a blind 1-year-old female with her very own special quarters.

She got Captain, her first, about eight years ago and learned the animal's habits and requirements as she went along. Her kangaroos eat oats and special pellets, as well as snacks of fresh fruit.

"They can seem just like big teddy bears," she said. "They're beautiful animals and I just love them

Title: Kangaroo Reaches Snowy Wisconsin, Shelters in Barn
Source: ap
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Published: Jan 5, 2005
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Post Date: 2005-01-05 15:06:47 by Crystalk
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A kangaroo that went on a walkabout in frigid Wisconsin was captured Wednesday. But where the marsupial came from remained a mystery.

Sheriff's deputies cornered the 150-pound kangaroo in a barn after receiving calls for days from shocked residents who had seen it.

Officials from Henry Vilas Zoo in Madison, about 45 miles away, planned to pick it up and take care of it.

Zoo director Jim Hubing said the kangaroo would not have survived long in the Wisconsin winter. Temperatures in the animal's native Australia generally do not drop below the 30s.

Sheriff Steve Michek said some people who spotted the kangaroo were hesitant to report it "because they didn't want to be made a fool of."

He said the animal might have escaped as someone was bringing it through the county.


No one has claimed the Kangaroo as yet.

A bunch of folks saw it crossing on the expressway, but didn't call in initially because they figured they'd get in trouble with the State Police for crank calls.

They didn't have to tranquilize it, just encouraged it into a stall with food, then into a crate for transport. It was sub-20's during that stretch of time.

Gotta love it. :)
 
One more, I hadn't heard of the hippopotamus. :D

It's not difficult to purchase a kangaroo

By Lee Sensenbrenner
January 6, 2005

Kangaroo, found running loose outside of Dodgeville, is now lodging at the Vilas Zoo. (The Capital Times)
The kangaroo found hopping along snowy roads about 50 miles west of Madison probably isn't an colonist here, like zebra muscles in the late 1980s or wild turkeys in the 1970s.
Henry Vilas Zoo director Jim Hubing laughed at the idea. "What would they eat? How would they stay warm?"

Hubing is taking care of the animal at the zoo, where the 2- or 3-year-old male will stay for at least a month.

But regardless of whether other kangaroos are at large in the state, Hubing said that it would be amazing to see how many exotic animals are quietly kept among us as pets. He said obtaining a red kangaroo like the one found near Dodgeville would not be difficult, though he sternly objected to the practice.

And indeed, an online search quickly found multiple companies that sell or have sold kangaroos. Among them is Lolli Brothers Livestock Market in Macon, Mo., which listed male red kangaroos - called boomers - sold at an auction last spring for between $1,100 and $1,800. Females went for $2,900 to $3,000.



Whether the animal spotted by drivers on Monday and captured Wednesday is an escaped pet is still a matter of conjecture. The Iowa County Sheriff's Department said Wednesday afternoon that no owner has come forward and they had no more information to release about the animal's mysterious origin.

However, Iowa County Sheriff Steve Michek said the kangaroo "cooperated and didn't appear to fear us" when his staff moved it into Janelle Simpson's horse barn, just off Highway 151 at the edge of Dodgeville, and eventually into a stall. This suggests the animal is used to people and captive housing.

Hubing said that even with the difference between a Wisconsin winter and the kangaroo's home climate of Australia, the animal didn't need medical treatment for at least two days of exposure.

"It was wet," he said. "And it had snow on it."

But the animal is in good shape, he said, and could potentially stay someday with five other kangaroos kept at the zoo.

Hubing said that he'd never heard any reports about kangaroos establishing free roaming packs - or mobs, as they are technically called - anywhere in the United States. But several dozen kangaroos are kept wild in the 20-acre Kangaroo Conservation Center near Dawsonville, Ga.

Sarah Shapiro Hurley, a veterinarian and deputy administrator for the Land Division of the state Department of Natural Resources, said that even if several kangaroos turned up here, they would probably not draw the attention of the state Invasive Species Task Force.

"They would have to be doing damage and be capable of displacing native species," she said. "It's unlikely that we'd ever devote our energies to kangaroos."

But as Shapiro Hurley noted, the state DNR has had its problems with animals that seemingly were brought in as captive exotics and then either escaped or were released. Feral hogs, for example, are posing a problem.

And then there was the case, in 1994, of the hippopotamus that was found by some fly fishermen wading the Mecan River in Marquette County.

By the time they found it, it had been shot dead by its owner, Mark Schoebel, who noticed that the 1,700-pound baby was missing from his game farm.

What did he tell authorities who asked how it had escaped?

"The camel let it out."

lsensenbrenner@madison.com
Published: 10:32 AM 1/6/05


"Ain't nought as odd as folk." :D
 
Just remembered that Dawsonvill GA is home to a large nudist club. Maybe I will start a thread.....
 
From what I'd heard from friends down there, EVERYONE is moving to Atlanta.

I was really sorry to hear that. It used to be a really nice city. I'm hearing terms like "L.A. South." :confused:


(A moment of silence for the loss of innocence of Peachtree harmony. :( )
 
We've got a kangaroo farm? I never knew that.

This does remind me though, and I'm not kidding, there was an exotic animal farm in Dawsonville years ago, and it had cabins. I lived in one of those cabins for a while and drove back and forth from Atlanta. Those pics look a lot like the place, I wonder if they might have bought it.
 
Lion's Roar said:
RAPID CITY, S.D. - A buffalo that escaped from an auction ended up in a dressing room at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center where it spent a couple of hours staring into a mirror.
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You know how buffalo are. He just wanted to check his makeup before going out in front of all those people.


Now all this thread needs is a bear reference to be complete!
 
raghorn said:
You know how buffalo are. He just wanted to check his makeup before going out in front of all those people.


Now all this thread needs is a bear reference to be complete!
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You already had a bare reference! :p
 
raghorn said:
You know how buffalo are. He just wanted to check his makeup before going out in front of all those people.
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I'll have you know this yere boofalo don't wear no stinkin makeup!:rolleyes: :p

Well there was that one time when I was in a play in jr high school, but that don't count because that's before I became a boofalo.:grumpy: :o :D ;)

Edit:
Warn't no boofalo but did happen to think the old man was always sayin I wuz like a bull in a china closet. Too bad he din't say bear or I could'a made this thread complete.:D ;)
 
A bear story at ebaum's world......bearclimb.wmv. Funny stuff. But kind of interesting.
 
If I eat kim chee, some people have said that they thought there was a buffalo in my bathroom.....
 
I Love Kimchee and the salt in it loves me as well. Makes me retain water like.... better not go there.:rolleyes: :eek: :p ;) :D
 
DannyinJapan said:
yes, flaming.
some people have heard the buffalo and some people only smell the buffalo.
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I for one, do not want to see the buffalo.

You should team up and be superheros with WolfThongBoy.

;) :D :rolleyes:
 
"You should team up and be superheros with WolfThongBoy"

...must resist temptation to open photoshop, must resist temptation to open photoshop, must resist temptation to open photoshop, must resist temptation to open photoshop...
 
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