Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe DORVAL, Quebec, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- A Canadian wallaby who escaped his Ottawa-area pen a week ago was spotted hopping along in neighboring Quebec, 130 miles from home. Wendell, a 3-year-old marsupial born and raised in Kemptville, Ontario's Saunders Country Critters zoo, escaped when a large portion of his pen wall was felled by a tree limb during a storm last Tuesday. Advertisement Other wallabies and kangaroos who also escaped were recaptured, but Wendell apparently headed west, the Ottawa Citizen reported. The animal was spotted twice two days later in a town 60 miles from home. The zoo owners tried to coax him out of hiding by hanging towels soaked with wallaby urine on bushes, but were unsuccessful. Until Monday, there were no new sightings until Cathy Faubert did a double-take in Dorval, Quebec, The (Montreal) Gazette reported. "It looked like a dog, but then when I examined it closer his feet looked like those of a kangaroo," Faubert said. "He was hopping along and looking very confused." His owners said wallabies are capable of sustained speeds of 25 mph.
