By DANIELLE GALVIN
AN ANGRY kangaroo nearly made a meal of Ivka Javor last week. But her husband Drago came to her rescue with a boxing lesson on his own.
Outside her house in Mount Burnett, Ms Javor was confronted by an angry kangaroo at about 7.10am on Wednesday morning.
The animals are a common occurrence on her 145-acre property, but Ms Javor was not expecting a fight with this feisty kangaroo when she spotted it not far from the house.
“He came at me, when I saw him I went around the corner and luckily he slipped and fell on the concrete,” Ms Javor said.
“It was very cold and the grass had been wet – he came at me, it was very serious, he was huge.”
Ms Javor wants people to be aware that the native animals could be dangerous when approached, and she urged residents to be careful.
“My husband was in the shed, and I called out to him, he pushed the kangaroo and slapped him in the face and I don’t know what would have happened if the kangaroo hadn’t slipped over, he was coming at me,” she said.
“They come here all the time, I see them in the vineyard.
“I don’t know why this one was so angry, maybe he thought I was in his territory.”
Ms Javor said when her children were young they would feed the kangaroos on the property, but she had never seen one so angry before.
“They come here where it is greener grass and they tend to come in the evenings,” she said.
“I just want people to be aware – others may not be so lucky.”
