Comment from Sandra du Plessis

Excellent

A piece of very well-written dating advice in your fifty-word series about finding the perfect partner. A partner that cannot stop mating is a dangerous guy and will cause much jealousy and fights between the women.

 Comment Written 22-Oct-2019

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reply by the author on 22-Oct-2019

Very true. Thanks for reviewing.

Comment from poetwatch

Excellent

Those red boomers know how to keep their flyers from straying too far, LisaMay. This is very good. I like the knowledge that you impart so everyone understands the animal in this case mammal. Thank you for sharing.

 Comment Written 21-Oct-2019

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reply by the author on 21-Oct-2019

Thanks for your review!

Comment from Mystic Angel 7777

Excellent

LOL! This one is delightful and so beautifully executed. The kangaroo was an awesome choice and should register high marks from many readers. Well done and thank you very much for sharing it.

 Comment Written 21-Oct-2019

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reply by the author on 21-Oct-2019

Thanks for reviewing. The kangaroo is such a bizarre creature - it is getting attention here on-site from folks who've never seen one i imagine. They are very common in some areas in Australia; when I visit my friend in Canberra I can see them every day. Not the big red ones, they are more suited to the Outback, just the smaller eastern greys.

Comment from Bill Schott

Excellent

This fifty-word story, Jumping to Conclusions, is brimming with kangaroo punnery that fills the readers with happiness and joey.

 Comment Written 21-Oct-2019

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reply by the author on 21-Oct-2019

Love your joey reference. Thanks for reviewing!

Comment from lyenochka

Excellent

How cool! Thanks for sharing all the information about roos! They are very interesting - well, I guess they could be as much the pests as the deer here but they're exotic to me. It's good you didn't stay with the jumpy guy.

 Comment Written 21-Oct-2019

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reply by the author on 21-Oct-2019

Thanks for your review. Yes, they do become pests at times and need to be culled in some places. Their meat is very lean and healthy. I think they should actually be farmed - they aren't as hard on the environment as sheep and cattle. They'd need really high fences though!

Comment from Rikki66

Excellent

Good luck in the contest. This boyfriend seems to be one that would like to fight and is probably named Joey.********************************************************************************************************************************
Rikki

 Comment Written 20-Oct-2019

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reply by the author on 20-Oct-2019

Thanks for your review Rikki. He'd be Joey if he was little, but he's a lean, mean fighting machine as tall as a man now. I think he's called Dusty, from living in the Outback.

reply by Rikki66 on 20-Oct-2019

I stand corrected. I bow to your wisdom.
Rikki

Comment from Robert Zimmerman

Excellent

Way to go Lisamay. I knew we were going to have to see a Roo in here somewhere. He is very attractive...as roos go. He has those short arms and probably is no good at picking up dinner checks. Robert

 Comment Written 20-Oct-2019

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reply by the author on 20-Oct-2019

Thanks for your review, Robert. Those short arms might not be good at picking up dinner checks, but I saw a youtube clip of a roo crushing a metal barrel in his forepaws - they are very strong. If they are chased by a dingo (wild native dog) they can grab it and crack its ribs, or take it into a river and hold the dingo under water. So be very nice to a big old man red kangaroo.

Comment from Michele Harber

Excellent

Kangaroos have always fascinated me, moreso now that you've provided all that information about them. This was funny, as expected, but didn't seem to have quite the number of puns as some of the others. (I might, for instance, have been "hopping mad" at his antics, and not have "gotten a kick out of them.") I love the last line, "I'll probably live to roo the day." (Boy would I love to see what the offspring of all these couplings look like!)

 Comment Written 20-Oct-2019

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reply by the author on 20-Oct-2019

Thanks for your discerning review, Michele.
I love kangas - it is a delight to see them leaping across the landscape, but they can be terrible traffic hazards around evening or dawn when they are dining. They leap out of nowhere and cause many traffic accidents. My dad had one leap through the driver's window and land in his lap (luckily it was a smaller wallaby) and I have had a near accident on my motorbike.
Our offspring has been on my mind lately, thinking how to illustrate the book that is in gestation. There are definitely some ridiculous-looking possibilities. Thank goodness none of them actually impregnated me. We were just good friends. Although I did rather fancy that black swan, hoping it might have been Zeus.

reply by Michele Harber on 20-Oct-2019

TMI, Jenny. I think perhaps you and Zeus ought to get a room. ;-)

reply by the author on 21-Oct-2019

I think that would make too many goddesses jealous. It's not worth the fuss.

reply by Michele Harber on 21-Oct-2019

Good point. I should have thought of that myself.

Comment from Y. M. Roger

Excellent

LOL! Okay, I'm thinking that you just had waaay too much fun with this one, L-M!! ;) ;) Great smiles and word play! ;) Thanx for sharing them both! ;) Yvette

 Comment Written 20-Oct-2019

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reply by the author on 20-Oct-2019

Thanks for your review - yep, still having fun!

Comment from Louise Michelle

Excellent

Hahaha - another good one, Lisa. That first line is so clever. Kangaroos are such cool animals - I've always been fascinated by them. Yeah, ya better not try to keep up with him, he's liable to box your ears. Hugs, Lou

 Comment Written 20-Oct-2019

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reply by the author on 20-Oct-2019

Thanks for your fun review! Kangaroos and wallabies are delightful to watch. They are quite plentiful - even in Canberra, the capital city, you can see eastern grey kangaroos in some of the outer suburbs in the evening. In fact they get so plentiful sometimes they have to be culled, which always upsets people, but the roos would starve otherwise by overgrazing. It is more humane.