Chasing a loose kangaroo is getting to be part of the job for police in a southwestern Colorado city. Irwin, the pet kangaroo, wasn’t difficult to nab when he got loose last fall in Durango. Still quite young at the time, he leaped into a bag similar to a mother kangaroo’s pouch.

Police in Durango Monday had to track down an escape artist with some spring in his step. Officers managed to find and corner a kangaroo who had fled his home