Hi Richard, nice to hear from you. You sound a friendly lot anyway – that’s nice too.

I’m sorry if I gave you the wrong impression about my walking Rabies. I guess it must be where I say that we hop. I did try to synchronise my hop with Rabies’ a long time ago but it was no good. I guess you have to be another kangaroo to do that. And I’ve never tried a pogo stick. No it is a kind of he leaps and I jerk thing. It gets painful after a bit but it’s not too bad for the first mile or so. I tried towing him along from a truck at one time but he couldn’t get the idea right. I nearly ran over him and killed him so I gave that up. I just have a long leash. He’s on one end and I’m on the other and he hops and I jerk until he’s had enough. Trouble is that he has much more stamina than me nowadays – when he went after that female - that was really painful. I thought my end had come. But at home he is an old softie. He lies under the table as good as gold. When the table starts bouncing I know it is either time for his walk or a feed. Then I have to get a move on or the door takes a battering. But he’s quite domestic really.

I have some lovely photos of him and I will put one on the blog as requested. And you can meet him for yourself is you get over this way. We would both be happy to see you.

Must go now as I am getting ready for my trip to see my brother. I take Rabies with me and sometimes it takes me half a day to get him into the plane. I have to tie him down so that he can’t leap around when we are in the air – or on the ground for that matter - and he doesn’t like being tied down. So it can be quite a struggle getting him in. I did think of having a big net on a rope under the plane like they have on those rescue safari programmes on telly, but I haven’t worked out a way to do it yet. I’m still working on it though.

Best regards,

Pat.

This one was when Rabies was quite small - but cuddly, don’t you think? He is a lot bigger now. If you want some more I’ll put them up.

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