Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe April 25 (UPI) -- Police and neighbors in a Texas town are searching for an unusual escaped animal -- a kangaroo that went hopping away from its owner's home. Constable Ray Helm of Hays County Precinct 3 said he initially thought the Facebook post he saw about the missing kangaroo was a joke, but he soon changed his mind. Advertisement "I said, 'Wow, this is real," Helm recalled to KXAN-TV. The kangaroo escaped from the Trails End Ranch in Wimberley and was last seen in Summer Mountain Ranch on Wednesday afternoon. Helm said he is urging neighbors to keep a safe distance if they spot the marsupial. "I just don't want it in the roads or hurt somebody. We have lots of animal lovers here," Helm told KEYE-TV. Roy Dale, the kangaroo's owner, said he is hoping the animal is recaptured sooner than later. "Oh yeah, I'm concerned. It's kind of hard, like finding a needle in a haystack. He'll show up, if something don't happen to him," Dale said. Read More Kangaroo crashes photo shoot, chases models Netherlands police round up escaped zoo wallabies Kangaroo casually hops through Australian pub