A bush tourist who tried to rescue Joy from a fence described the horrific moment when her mother viciously attacked her.
Melanie Stubbs, a 58-year-old Campbelltown woman, was hiking with a group in the Megalong Valley near Katoomba last December when they found Joey stuck in a wire fence.
One of the group members decided to film the women as they tried to free Joey who was hanging upside down with his hind leg caught in the fence.
The rescue soon ended when the protective kangaroo mother became defensive and began to show signs of attack.
The video shows the kangaroo jumping up the fence as the bushwalk backs away slightly.
Then he turns, hopping away in a clearing before backing up and charging quickly into the group.
“Watch out for a mile,” shouted one of the bushwalkers.
The kangaroo perched on the fence snarling and snoring angrily while Mrs. Stubbs slid back in shock.
She told 9News, “She got under the fence and grew up with her claws spread.”
“The next thing I remember was I turned on my stomach and was trying to crawl away screaming, ‘Help!
“And my back was pounding. It was horrible.”
One of her friends tried to fight off a kangaroo with a hiking pole but the kangaroo had already sliced her leg with its claws.
“I went to get up and then I noticed my leg muscles were hanging off my leg,” she said.
“It was horrible.”
The group managed to get her off the kangaroo and lowered a car onto a nearby road to take her to the hospital.
The 58-year-old had to undergo emergency surgery to treat the wound that pierced her right calf bone.
Her doctors told her the attack could have been fatal if the kangaroo had scratched at more vital organs.
“You could have killed me,” she said.
She was put on crutches and took three months off to recover.
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