Dera Lauris, Pademelon is the common name for a small kangaroo type animal. Some still exist in Tasmania and another species in far NQLD is also known locally as pademelon. This probably applies to other species around Oz too. Cheers Margerie Linton Greer -----Original Message----- From: Lauris Crampton <crampton@senet.com.au> To: AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND-L@rootsweb.com <AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Date: 22 October 1999 03:51 Subject: [AVG] Re: Pademelons/unwanted kittens >Please, cld SKS tell me what a pademelon is? I thought they were some kind >of melon that grows by the side of the road and is yellow in colour, but >now assume that they are some sort of animal - like a kangaroo perhaps. I >am a city person from Footscray. > >I wish people wld deal properly with their cats, unsterilized cats are a >curse in the suburbs as well. > >Lauris >