Would a red kangaroo make a good or exotic pet for me?
October 23, 2011 by KOI Section
Filed under Koi Facts
I live in a rural area between Brighton and an unofficial part of Commerce City, on a property that is about an acre long. When I was looking at the exotic pet laws in Colorado, “MAN ARE THEY WHACK! Their is like a bunch of African antelope species banned from the state, or “prohibited” as they call it, they won’t even let a registered zoological facility have!”, anyway, so I saw one of the legal wild animals you can have are Red Kangaroos. Honestly, I think I could handle it if I could find a responsible facility that would give me a joey at a reasonable price, despite that I’m only thirteen. I’ve had plenty of experience with keeping wild animals as “pets” or “special buddies” as I call them. At first, it started of with a baby boa constrictor egg being hatched at in a incubator I made in 6th grade, to keeping three very special caimen, one of them being a white specimen that I costed me a thousand bucks, being kept in the koi pond, “my folks let me keep them only because they make interesting pond decorations”, keeping two sugar gliders and raising over twenty, I’m not kidding, OVER TWENTY HOLSTEIN CALVES AT MY COUSIN’S RANCH FOR A MONTH. As you can see, I have had a lot of experience in raising animals, and I can take the time in raising a joey. I’ve also had a friend in Australia show me how to hand raise a joey while I was at his place for spring break hunting boar. Now I know what some of you are thinking, I hunter can’t raise a baby ANYTHING because I kill animals. Boars are destructive, as well as rabbits, so yes, I hunt them, espicialy to help a friend in Aussie 
And being a little hunter, I have enough rabbits’ skins, “brain tanned on one side with fur still attached to the other”, to make a great pouch for any joey. And I also know where to get the milk formula for my joey and how much to feed him through the four stages, as well as how to wean him. I also know the fact that my friend’s dad said “A roo buck can be as aggresive and as reliable as a bull, and will sometime in your lfetime of keeping him captive will bite, scratch, kick, and whoop the hell out of both the hand that fed him…”. Great advice, but I’m planning on keeping a doe. And if possible, with the help of the Australian Wildlife Agency or what ever they call it, I want to release him/her into the wild, where I believe if possible, that any wild animal should be released into the wild at some point in their life if possible. Either that, or let them live in captivity, but let them live as close as possible to life in the wild. Besides, I have a good idea for the joey’s living enclosoure, and know everything in keeping a marsupial. And according to my science teacher know, read, and study zoology at a college level so I know A LOT about kangaroos. So, good pet or bad pet?
In the states, or at least Colorado, you can keep all sorts of marsupials! But I know wild animals are dangerous, I plan to work with the Australian director of National Parks to release it back into the wild where I believe it should be let freed if I have the chance to do so.
Do you think we’re chasing and crating roos like the Chinese do to prairie dogs just for pets? Kangaroos are ranched in the States…
Yes, I go to a very “special” school. Denver School of Arts, one of the best schools in the state of Colorado. So good, you can’t just admit into the school, you have to be DISCOVERED. WHAT?!
In Australia where im from you can not keep roo’s as pets except if you are working for an animal rescue and even then ther are released back into the wild or if not they are taking to a wildlife sancturary.
In the states i dont know if its possible to keep such an animal as a “pet”. I would think that it wouldnt be allowed.
sorry but no one should have exotic animals. They belong in the wild.
A good pet for you as when it grows up, you can ride in its pouch and be the envy of all your special buddies, down at the special school.
Release it into the wild where?? Over there in America, or back here in Australia?? Where do you plan on keeping it? Do you have high fences to prevent escape? What do you plan on feeding it once it’s weaned? Are you prepared to feed this joey every 3-4 hours until it’s weaned?
If you do indeed plan on raising a joey and releasing it, that joey will have next to no chance of surviving in the wild. It will have no experience with predators, or how to find food and water for itself or to learn to be afraid of humans. Wildlife carers in Australia have large outdoor enclosures for transitioning kangaroos from being dependant on their human carers to being capable of fending for themselves.
I live in Australia and I am sure that you are unable to keep them as pets here. And I wouldn’t recommend having one as a pet either. Red kangaroos can grow to over 6ft high and can become agressive without being provoked. No matter how cute and cuddly they look, they belong in the wild here in Australia not as a pet in someone’s backyard.