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Bennetts Wallabies
Victoria Secret: Victoria Secret was the Fall City
Wallaby Ranch’s first baby and instilled the confidence in us that
led to our dedication to the mission of “sharing the Joey” of
Wallaby ownership with others. Victoria’s loving nature and
beautiful spirit has proven to be indefatigable and hereditary.
Victoria dearly loved to run through the house, down the hallway,
through the living room, from chair to couch to chair and back
again. Victoria also taught our Doberman how to be best friends with
a wallaby.
Trillion Kisses: Trillion earned his name while an
infant as it was immediately clear that something about him was as
rare and special as a Trillion cut diamond. Trillion’s daddy was a
strong albino boy and Trillion went on to produce albino babies from
grey females. Trillion Kisses became his full name when his
incessant desire to cover his family with kisses became apparent.
Trillion matured with incredible mass and strength providing clear
evidence that the Fall City Wallaby Ranch had a “King” male Wallaby
on their hands. When fully grown and before his untimely loss in
2007, “The Mighty Trillion Kisses” tipped the scale at 63 pounds.
Thor: Thor joined the Fall City Wallaby Ranch as a
juvenile when about 12 months of age. Thor was as wild as a March
Hare when we procured him in hopes of developing a method of helping
to answer the many questions that arise when wild caught Bennetts
Wallabies (like Thor) are shipped to the United States from New
Zealand. Over the period of about 18 months, we earned Thor’s trust
and he developed into a beautiful and very red colored breeder. Thor
was our choice of mates for Victoria Secret and the combined
qualities of the pair produces incredible beauty and temperament in
each of their offspring.
Vanna: Vanna Anna was adopted by the Fall City
Wallaby Ranch when she was a 6 pound infant. We paired her with “The
Mighty Trillion Kisses” as she is another half albino grey with a
gentle spirit and lovely facial features. Vanna has become a
faithful and stable producer of many of the prettiest babies born at
the Fall City Wallaby Ranch. Vanna is a very feminine and gentle
girl who has produced more beautiful little girls than any other
female we have ever had.
Vanessa: Vanessa is our beloved little girl known
as our “Cessna” for the way that she holds her little ears straight
out sideways instead of upright. Nessy is the full and successive
sister to Victoria Secret and like Vickie, dearly loves to be held
and cuddled. Vanessa loved her pouch and slept in it, hanging on our
headboard, until she was over 20 pounds. Vanessa is also paired with Thor and produced a
stunning little girl with the same habit of holding her ears
horizontally. We were so taken with Nessy’s little Cessna eared baby
girl that we named her Veronica and kept her selfishly for
ourselves!!
Veronica: Veronica, as mentioned above is the
petite and feminine product of the pairing of Vanessa and Thor here
at the Fall City Wallaby Ranch. With the spunky attitude and ears of
her mom, along with the special coloring and facial features of her
dad, Veronica is a truly special little girl. Paired with “The
Mighty Trillion Kisses”, Veronica proudly produced the first albino
baby born to a grey Wallaby at the Fall City Wallaby Ranch.
Trey: Trey is an incredible sociable little
neutered male who has been everybody’s best friend here at the Fall
City Wallaby Ranch since he came for us to baby sit in August of
2006. Trey was a boy we procured for friends years before and when
his adoptive mom and dad became unable to keep him due to
unfavorable housing conditions, we welcomed him here. Trey is our
perfect example for those who might want a Wallaby or two but do not
want to breed, a case where we often recommend neutered males.
Virginia: Virginia was adopted as an infant by the
Fall City Wallaby Ranch in February of 2007. Virginia has the
sweetest little personality we have ever seen in a little girl who
refused to get in her pouch by the age of 9 months. Ginny was the
feature baby in a charity benefit for the American Cancer Society in
2007 where she patiently socialized for two hours while over 200
photographs were taken of contributors getting their photographs
taken with a Roo!! Paired with Snow, Virginia produces the most
incredible split albino babies!
Valencia: Valencia is the stunning product of the
lovely “Veronica” and “The Mighty Trillion Kisses” and is the Grand
Daughter of the Fall City Wallaby Ranch’s “Vanessa” and “Thor.”
Little Valencia takes after her Great Aunt “Victoria Secret” in her
love of running through the house. She has the strong spirit and
feminine features of her mom and the endless kissing characteristic
of her daddy.
Albino Bennetts Wallabies
Apollo: Apollo was the first full albino brought to
the Fall City Wallaby Ranch and quickly confirmed for us the
reputedly gentle and laid back personalities of the albino variety
of Bennetts Wallabies. Apollo grew up in the house with “Trillion
Kisses” and “Vanna Anna” and is a large and gentle soul who has
sired many perfect albino babies.
Velvet: Velvet is a stunningly beautiful and
incredibly perfect, large and tame example of the rare and desirable
albino variety. Velvet was adopted by the Fall City Wallaby Ranch in
2004 and spent over a year in our house. Velvet was a perfect lady,
slept on the floor of our bedroom at night and on our bed most of
the time when she was not to be found elsewhere. She loved the
Christmas tree and to unwrap the Christmas presents. Velvet and her
mate, the equally special “Apollo” show unusual signs of being in
love and have produced the sweetest and most affectionate babies we
have ever seen anywhere. We are not biased!!!!
Snow: Snow is without question the sweetest and
most animated little boy we have. We adopted Snow from a breeder who
offered him for sale to one of our clients at only 2 pounds and 2
ounces. We considered him premature and seriously at risk to be lost
if sold to someone who would bottle him only every four hours. We
drove over 3600 miles to bring Snow home and found him to require a
bottle every 2 to 3 hours to maintain. While on our way to pick the
new baby up, we stopped in Lead South Dakota for fuel during a
blizzard and decided we would be safest to continue East through the
storm to our destination. Upon our return home, via a different
route of travel, we clipped an article from the Seattle Times that
described the blizzard we had driven through in South Dakota as
having dropped 59.5 inches of snow in a little town called LEAD
SOUTH DAKOTA before letting up. Any question where Snow got his
name? The Great Snow Man has now take n the job of “The Mighty
Trillion Kisses” as our main mob breeder and sired his first baby
girl with “Virginia” in 2008.
Vanilla: Vanilla is the first beautiful albino girl
born of the pairing of the perfect couple “Velvet” and “Apollo.”
Vanilla is being adopted by the Fall City Wallaby Ranch and will be
added to the mob with our loving “Snow” and is anticipated to be as
stunning as her mom and her dad. We are looking forward to updating
the photographs of our long awaited baby girl Vanilla and to seeing
the product of her pairing with the “Great Snow Man.”
Common Wallaroo
Mickey: Mickey was adopted by the Fall City Wallaby
Ranch in the summer of 2005. Mickey was a little over 15 pounds and
had been hand reared by an individual in Las Vegas, where we flew
and brought him home. He had lost his girl friend a short time
earlier to an accident and had experienced a good deal of trauma as
a result. Wallaroos are regularly lost due to stresses caused by the
loss of a mate and regularly lost following a change of homes so we
hoped to offer him as good a chance of survival as he could possibly
have. Mickey became “The Mouse in Daddys House” for a month or so,
living with Rocky and immediately adopted the counter of our laundry
room as his own. Mickey Mouse is a stunning and rare red variety of
Common Wallaroo, has thrived at the Fall City Wallaby Ranch and we
are blessed and very happy to have and to share him with others!!
Mickey is now "Mickey, the mouse in daddy's house."
Red Kangaroo
Rocky: Rocky the Red Kangaroo was adopted and moved
to the Fall City Wallaby Ranch as a 4 pound infant in 2005. Rocky
grew up sharing our bed, our pillows, and our hearts as he lived in
our house for over a year. Rocky has been the feature macropod in
our “Bring a Roo to Your Room” program, done dozens of charity
benefit programs and Senior Center programs all over the State of
Washington. We once performed an educational presentation at a large
Senior Center in Seattle where after our short lecture we answered
questions and Tawny circulated with an infant Wallaby while people
came on stage to pet Rocky. One of the Gentleman attendees raised
his hand after our presentation and said “I have no question, but an
observation.” “When you finished your presentation” he continued.
“You asked us if anyone had ever held or even petted a Wallaby or
Kangaroo, and we all said no. There are over 150 of us in attendance
here tonight and we probably average 80 years of age. You know, that
is over 12,000 years of experience in this room and none of us has
ever had an opportunity to do this. Thank You.” After drying my
eyes, I thanked him as well. The man answered the question for all,
of why the Fall City Wallaby Ranch was founded.
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