Cudahy police: Lost wallaby reunited with owner Thursday

Cudahy police find missing wallaby

Bodycam video shows a Cudahy police officer locate a missing wallaby and get it into his squad. (Courtesy: Cudahy Police Department).

CUDAHY, Wis. - Cudahy police reunited a wayward wallaby with its owner on Thursday morning, July 3.

What they're saying:

The wallaby was said to be loose in the area of Pennsylvania Avenue and International Drive, just east of Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport. 

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Bodycam video from the Cudahy Police Department shows an officer find the animal, which was in a harness, near the fence line of a FedEx facility. 

"We got a call about this, like, I don't know, 30 minutes ago. And they're like, ‘yeah, we got kangaroo.’ I was like, no way. I was like, there's no shot," the officer can be heard saying in the video.

Wallaby found on International Drive (Courtesy: CPD)

Wallabies, which resemble small kangaroos, are marsupials mainly found in Australia, according to the Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute.

Dig deeper:

Less than two weeks ago, first responders in Milwaukee made an unexpected animal discovery of their own. Firefighters found an alligator inside a Walker's Point home.

Crews were called for a two-alarm fire when the roughly three-foot-long reptile was found in the basement of a home near 15th and Madison.