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| Name: |
Snoball
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Age: |
Eight months old
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| Gender: |
Male
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Kind: |
Albino Bennett Wallaby
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| Home: |
St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
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This
little doll is our second marsupial addition to the family. We
have a three-year-old Walleroo named Roo, who has brightened our
lives so much! We really missed having a baby around the house so
when we saw this little angel we just had to have him! Little joeys
(baby kangeroos) are so needy and loving that they are more like
having a child than a pet. Our little Snoball holds your hand when
you feed him his bottle of formula and he even wears diapers! Unlike
puppies, our little angels never bark or chew up the furniture and
they eat grass so there's never any messy food or stinky poops. By
far the best thing about my kangeroos is the love they give. Their
gentle sweetness is not like any other animal I have ever known.
Snoball somersaults into his little pillowcase (which he thinks is
his mother's pouch) and sleeps for hours. We love to take him
everywhere with us!
Ten years ago the market for kangaroos coming to the US was for
raising for a meat product. The exotic market brought very high
prices. After ten years the industry realized there would never
be a market for roo meat in the states due to how adored they are,
like Bambi. At that point lots of roos were in the states, at exotic
farms and reproducing. That's how they got here. They still remain
relatively expensive at least $1000 for a handled one. Kangaroos are
very social. They bond very deeply with their mothers. When bred in
captivity the female roo has a tendency to throw the joey too early
in order to make room for conceiving another joey. Most hairless
babies die if the breeder does not find it soon enough. SnoBall was a
hairless baby when the breeder found him. The breeder has upwards of 60
roos of five different species. To bottle feed each new joey on a rigid
schedule is tough. I bought my first Roo from her three years ago, so
when we saw tiny little Snoball we were very happy to adopt him. He
is an albino Bennet Wallaby which is very rare. He is also probably
the most affectionate animal we've ever had.
My husband and I have our exotic animal licence. We have a lot of
space and about 25 different animals. We have lots of people come by
just to see roo grazing in the yard. We love and care for all of our
critters. We feel we give them a better life than they would
otherwise have. It's a lot of responsibility but they are a constant
source of love and entertainment, and they never disappoint you.
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