Baby kangaroo in diaper found safe

It's a hoppy ending after all. A baby kangaroo in a diaper was found safe over the weekend, two hours after being reported missing from an exotic-animal farm, the Dodge County Sheriff's Department said Monday. "It was just outside the residence. It must have been hiding," Sheriff Todd Nehls said.

The male kangaroo _ just "three months out of the pouch," according to sheriff's department dispatch logs _ was reported missing Saturday. But authorities had it listed as missing on Sunday because the owners didn't call to say they found it, Nehls said.

Deputies weren't fazed when the missing-kangaroo call first came in.

"We're an agricultural community," Nehls said. "We've had emus missing, ostriches. Many years ago a deputy shot a tiger that had escaped from an exotic-game farm."

The lost joey was one of a handful of animals that kept deputies busy Saturday. Five pigs had escaped from their pen but were later found at another farm. And in two separate incidents, deputies corralled three wayward horses that were spotted running along roads.

"We're very diverse. We can respond to anything," the sheriff said.