Glenwood woman’s search for kangaroo injured by arrow

A Queensland woman is seeking urgent help to try and save a kangaroo which was left limping but still alive with a huge “high-powered” bolt in its side.

A Glenwood woman has taken to social media in an effort to try and save a kangaroo which suffered an horrific injury when it was struck by an arrow.

A Glenwood woman has turned to social media in her desperate search for a seriously injured kangaroo left with a bolt stuck through its leg in a shock attack.

Volunteer wildlife carer Jenny DuPont has been trying to track down the badly injured animal for several days after it was first sighted at the eastern edge of the town (between Gympie and Maryborough), near Arborfive Rd.

Ms DuPont revealed the distressing development in a post on Tuesday.

“I don’t have the words anymore to describe this behaviour,” she said.

“The photo says it for me.”

Mrs DuPont, who runs Jenny’s Wildlife Rescue at the regional township on the Bruce Hwy between Gympie and Maryborough, said she tried to reach the kangaroo on that morning but was unable to.

She has been searching ever since to no avail.

Glenwood volunteer wildlife carer Jenny DuPont is urging anyone who sees the injured kangaroo in the Glenwood area to please contact her.

“Nobody has rung to say they’ve seen it,” Mrs DuPont said,

“If it’s just laying low people are not going to notice it.”

It was sadly not the first time she had run across an animal left with such a severe injury.

Aside from others which had been struck with arrows, last year she had been forced to help a wallaby with an extension cord wrapped around its throat.

“I don’t know people can be so cruel,” she said.

The injured kangaroo was sighted only a few weeks after a magpie was shot with an arrow near Eli Waters, also on the Fraser Coast.

Mrs DuPont sad it appeared this one had been hit by a “really high powered” compound bolt rather than a normal arrow, which is why she had penetrated through its legs so far.

There was some reason to believe the injury happened some time before it was first sighted too “with the amount of dried blood around (the wound)”.

Her hope was to find the animal, sedate it, and take it to a vet to have the arrow removed.

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The question of how long the kangaroo had before the severe injury became even worse was difficult to answer.

Mrs DuPont said it depended on how clean the arrow was when it went in

She is urging anyone in the area to call her if they see the wounded animal.

“It needs our help,” she said.

Originally published as Glenwood woman’s search for kangaroo injured by arrow