A NURSE was put in a headlock and booted in the stomach by a 6ft-tall kangaroo while trying to rescue his pet dogs.
Adrian Stock, 60, was on his cattle farm in Australia when he spotted his three pooches take off after a lone male kangaroo.
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When his trio of dogs – a ridgeback, bull arab and a tenterfield terrier – continued to chase the 14-stone roo, Adrian felt he had no choice but to follow.
The dad-of-three eventually caught up and as he closed in on the crazed quartet he instinctively started shouting and waving his arms.
But it did more damage than good as the kangaroo saw him as the bigger threat and unleashed a brutal attack.
The wild beast grabbed Adrian in a vice-like headlock while booting him in the stomach with his back legs.
Adrian, who has lived on the farm in from Ballina in New South Wales for 35 years, said: “I ran after them as kangaroos can easily gut a dog but I also don’t love my animals attacking wildlife.
“I chased my dogs and I’m yelling at them and they’ve trapped this kangaroo in about three-feet of water.
“I sort of ballooned up and raised my arms and I’m yelling at the dogs and the kangaroo has seen me as the bigger threat.
“It turned on me and grabbed me by the head with its front claws and then kicked me in the belly with its back leg and knocked me to the ground in the water.
“The kangaroo was under a lot of stress and I wanted to get the dogs off him.”
Adrian said he borrowed a walking stick off a passerby which he flailed to calm the dogs “because they were in a frenzy”.
“Kangaroos are very tough animals and it took about five minutes to finally get the dogs off it and send them home,” he said.
“By this time the kangaroo is exhausted and I’m exhausted.”
Shocking photos show the animal lover’s head dripping with blood following the attack, with a foot-long scar running across his belly.
Adrian visited his GP where he was given a tetanus shot and had stitches in his head.
Despite the attack happening in April 2018, Adrian said he’s been left scarred for life and with a lingering wariness of kangaroos.
“I had a few cuts on my head on the scalp and above my ears and a big cut on my belly,” he said.
“It could have been a lot worse and it was more of a scratch than a skin tear but I’ve still got the scar down my belly. I’ve been left scarred for life from this.
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“The cuts on my head were a couple of inches per claw and they were mainly scratches but their claws are really sharp. The scratch on my stomach was about 12 inches long.”
Adrian said the kangaroo that had attacked him was a “rogue” kangaroo, meaning this male had been kicked out of its mob likely due to conflict with another male.
The farmer said it isn’t the first time he has been up close to a kangaroo but said he didn’t expect the animal to turn on him.
“The kangaroo was taller than me and 6ft tall. He was quite muscular and jacked. They’re huge and very strong,” Adrian added.
“I was more interested in saving the kangaroo from serious harm.
“In the heat of the moment I felt adrenaline first so I didn’t feel any pain and didn’t notice the blood coming down the side of my head.
“I could feel my stomach but I couldn’t see it. When I became aware of it [my injuries], it was stinging and painful.
“I’ve been a bit wary about kangaroos since this [attack] as I didn’t expect it to turn on me but I understand why it did as I became the biggest threat being bigger and louder than the dogs.”
World’s worst kangaroo attacks
KANGAROOS might seem outwardly docile but when the creatures go rogue the consequences can be devastating.
With the ability to floor humans with a single punch and razor-sharp claws as well as vice-like jaws, the beasts have a savage side to them.
The mighty marsupials have powerful back legs that allow them to leap 30 ft and travel at 35mph.
But their legs and claws can also be used for fighting each other – and for battering humans.
ONE PUNCH KNOCK OUT
A dad found out what it was like being floored by a kangaroo by a single punch.
Startling footage captured Mitchell Robinson, pictured above, being decked by the creature in his own front yard in New South Wales, Australia.
It shows the large male roo squaring up to the man before hopping towards him and unleashing a rapid attack with his feet and paws.
KICKED AROUND LIKE RAG DOLL
Debbie Urquhart was attacked by 6ft 5in male roo as she went for an early morning run near her home in Melbourne, Australia.
The personal trainer said the kangaroo repeatedly kicked her on the right side of her body, ripped her clothes and “threw me around like a rag doll.”
Mrs Urquhart even played dead in an effort to stop the attack and managed to escape to safety after the kangaroo ran away.
FACE SLASHED BY CLAWS
One women suffered horrific facial injuries and feared being disembowled after she was attacked by a kangaroo while out walking her dog.
The victim – identified as Dina – had just let her had just let her pet off its leash when she found herself face to face with the giant creature.
When the kangaroo began chasing her dog, she was savaged as she tried to intervene.
She told 9News : “I ran up the embankment to try and get my dog away but not realising that I was only three or four metres behind the roo.
“And that’s when I sensed the roo was panicking and thinking ‘I’m being attacked on all sides.
“He looked at me and I knew what was going to happen.
“Something made me turn around. He attacked me from behind and he knocked me to the ground.”
“He gouged out the back of my leg, I know now if I hadn’t turned around, I would probably have been disembowelled.”
“He started pounding on me and jumping on me and I played dead.”
‘THOUGHT I WOULD BLEED TO DEATH’
Wildlife Linda Smith suffered broken ribs and internal injuries after she was attacked.
She was with her husband, Jim, feeding kangaroos she was looking after as they had done so many times before, when she noticed her husband being attacked.
“I thought I was going to bleed to death there and then,” she told news.com.au.
