Wallaby spotted in Exeter

Exeter locals are amazed after spotting what appears to be a wallaby hopping around the outskirts of Exeter.

Around 11am this morning, a concerned Facebook user posted into a community group: “This may be a weird thing to mention, but my granddaughter has just seen a wallaby up the Barley Lane fields. No, she has not been drinking, and she is an adult.”

Other social media users took to the comment section to suggest that the animal may be Wes, a wallaby that escaped from Greendale Farm Shop on Sidmouth Road in January.

The comment thread has since attracted a significant amount of attention, with locals reporting an increase in sightings over the last few days in the Whitestone area and on Hadrian Drive.

Exeter Police told Exeter Today: "We have now received a report of a wallaby or kangaroo in the road in Redhills Exeter shortly before midday today. It's not confirmed it is the one missing from Greendale though."

The police also said that the animal has not yet been caught. 

In response to wallaby sightings at the beginning of the year, Tom Lomas, Greendale's head of retail and hospitality, said: "It is a bit of a blessing and a curse in a way, as we know he's around, but we just haven't got him back.

"But he is alive and well and clearly eating, which is good."

A recent update on Facebook claims that Greendale Farm Shop has been notified about this latest wallaby sighting and have said that their animal keeper is looking into it.

Exeter Today has reached out to Greendale for comment and are waiting to hear back.