Oh no!

So…I have a favourite walleroo, Skip. Even after being away for 15 months she remembered me when I came back and came up and fed from a bowl of macropod pellets I was holding. In April we could tell that she had a joey in her pouch which eventually started to pop it’s head out. Once it was peeping out we could tell it was a female because of it’s light grey colouring. Most recently we have seen it starting to climb out of the pouch altogether but in the last week Skip has been visiting alone. I had hoped that the baby was hidden nearby but it now appears that Skip has lost it. We have not seen it for nearly a week now. I can only think it could have been taken by a fox during the night. It is just heartbreaking but that’s the way of things in the bush.