Overview
- Rex escaped Lots of Love Farm in Williamstown on Monday after a barn enclosure was not fully secured during a cold-weather move.
- Sightings clustered around the Williamstown Walmart off Black Horse Pike, with social videos showing the marsupial hopping through the parking lot.
- Monroe Township Police logged multiple calls, including a near-vehicle strike at East Malaga Road and South Black Horse Pike, and urged the public to contact authorities for safe handling.
- A drone pet-locating service and community tips guided searchers to a retention pond by the store, where teens and a parent helped the owner grab Rex by the tail.
- The 3-foot-tall wallaby was returned to Lots of Love Farm on Tuesday night in good condition, according to the sanctuary.