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CANBERRA - Like the star of the popular Aussie kid TV show, Lula the kangaroo, not Skippy, has come to the rescue of a human in dire peril. Americans would relate to Lula in much the same manner they related to Lassie [that TV star], the well-heeled collie. Farmer Leonard Richards was surveying storm damage on his property at Tanjil South, 150 km (93 miles) east of Melbourne, one morning when he was struck by a falling branch. The kangaroo began barking until Richards' wife came to investigate. She found her husband unconscious on the ground beneath the tree just a short distance from the house, guarded by the gray kangaroo. Lulu was hand-raised by the Richards family, who rescued her from her mother's pouch and bottle-fed her after a car killed the mother about four years ago. "Dad was totally out of it and Lulu was sitting by him in the bush making this really unusual yapping noise until Mum got there," Richards' 19-year-old son Luke told Reuters. "It was so lucky. Dad could have been there for hours if it wasn't for her," he said. Richards was taken to a local hospital with minor head injuries but allowed home shortly there after. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) called for Lulu to be nominated for its annual national bravery award. "This award is given to animals who do something for humans of an exceptional nature and Lulu certainly has done that," society president Hugh Wirth said.
