The poor little joeys
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“There is also a vast amount of evidence that at-foot joeys are left to die of starvation or predation after their mothers are shot, adding yet another dimension to the extreme cruelty involved in killing mothers and their babies”.
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In the first film in a new series of Kangaroo testimonies from NSW and the ACT, Dr Rosemary Austen describes the terrible ways in which baby Kangaroos, known as joeys, are killed by government culls, the commercial industry and as a result of urban development, land clearing and removal from farmland.
Kindness, love and extreme cruelty do not mix
Among the closest relationships in the animal world is the relationship between mother Kangaroo and her joey. This is a tactile and loving relationship and the pouch is central to this. This love is plainly evident to anyone. That is why the killing of joeys, along with their mothers, is one of the most abhorrent of all cruelties to animals anywhere in the world and because of this, significant efforts are made by both government and industry in Australia, to downplay the extreme cruelty involved in relation to this aspect of Kangaroo killing.
Governments, cruelty and spin
"Governments in Australia promote the idea that two methods are suitable for killing unfurred pouch young, these are cervical dislocation and decapitation. Since unfurred young (with closed eyes) are considered by governments to be still in a state of unconsciousness (and therefore not capable of experiencing pain). All this is clearly nonsense, as are the claims that these methods are unlikely to cause suffering and are therefore considered acceptable”. Peter Hylands
There is also a vast amount of evidence that at-foot joeys are left to die of starvation or predation after their mothers are shot, adding yet another dimension to the extreme cruelty involved in killing mothers and their babies. These are the ghost joeys of the ACT, lined up along the roadside and crying for their dead mothers.
And in the ACT, no one is allowed to rescue them.