text: Woman with baby kangaroo asked to leave Beaver Dam McDonald's 
   
   By Todd Hicks. CREATED Feb 3, 2015 - UPDATED: Feb 3, 2015 
   
   Click above to listen to the call made to the Dodge County Sheriff's Office 
   
   BEAVER DAM -- Customers weren't loving what they discovered when they went to a McDonald's to grab a burger - it was an animal that's usually only seen down under. 
   
   After a call was made to the Dodge County Sheriff's Office, an officer responded to the restaurant and found the joey with its owner. 
   
   "[She] had indeed brought a small kangaroo, about a one-foot in size kangaroo, inside of a child's car seat," says Detective Ryan Klavekoske. 
   
   Diane Moyer and her husband Larry own the animal, named Jimmy. You may remember them from a few years ago. The couple drove to Florida with a different kangaroo and a goat. They were stranded after their RV caught fire. 
   
   "They look at us like 'what the hell kind of weird vehicle is that that went by?', or weird people that just went by in that vehicle. I understand," explains pet owner Larry Moyer. "I guess I would kind of look at it weird in my own way, but we never had anybody say anything negative, you know." 
   
   Detective Klavekoske says the two are well known around the city. 
   
   "We've dealt with them in the City of Beaver Dam before under similar circumstances," he says. 
   
   Diane, who's battling cancer, says Jimmy is a therapeutic animal. But the city and its attorney disagrees. The Moyers left the restaurant after an officer told them to leave. They did not receive a ticket. ||||| Owning a kangaroo is a commitment, but owning five of them along with sheep, goats, emu, seven white tail deer, horses, ducks, geese, chickens, a dog and peacocks is a labor of love. 
   
   It’s a commitment that Diana Moyer, who lives near Columbus on a 70-acre farm, loves every second of, especially with her kangaroos. She has owned seven kangaroos over eight years. 
   
   “They are one of the most loving, trustworthy animals that I have ever had,” she said. 
   
   Moyer recently was asked to leave a Beaver Dam McDonald’s after a customer complained that the baby Kangaroo — which is eight-months-old and named Jimmy — was not appropriate or safe to have in the restaurant. 
   
   She said she has been visiting the McDonald’s at 840 Park Ave. for three months with Jimmy and no one has ever complained. In fact, she said she takes Jimmy everywhere, including her church — Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Beaver Dam — and to the east side of Madison. Recently she and Jimmy drove to Eastgate Cinema in Madison to watch Taken 3. 
   
   “I wish the person in McDonald’s would have just come and talked to me instead,” she said. 
   
   According to Moyer, Jimmy is quite popular. She said when she takes him out in public people ask to pet Jimmy and they have a lot of questions. 
   
   She describes Jimmy as a support or therapy animal. According to her, a support animal is similar to a service animal, but a support animal does not have a specific task. She didn’t want to go into detail, but she said she is disabled and visits a doctor in Madison who approved of the use of a support/therapy animal. She declined to share the doctor’s name. 
   
   Jimmy is the youngest of her current five kangaroos. There are also Perry, 2, Anna, 3, Ruby, 5, and Charles, 7. Ruby and Charles are the mother and father of Perry and Anna. 
   
   Moyer transported the kangaroos to Wisconsin after purchasing them from a livestock market called Lolli Bros. in Missouri. She purchased her kangaroos as babies and said a female kangaroo costs $1,000 and a male kangaroo costs $2,000. The Lolli Bros. website lists “alternative livestock” such as elk, llamas, camels, zebra, bison and many other animals. 
   
   According to Moyer, kangaroos can live for 20 years in captivity and they usually stop growing when they are 5 years old. 
   
   Moyer has been training and caring for all of her kangaroos as well as the rest of the animals for the 23 years she has lived on the farm. She lives with her mother and her husband, Larry. She said Larry helps a lot too and loves doing it. 
   
   She said Terry Crandall, who went by the name “Spiderman” helped feed and care for the animals for more than seven years until he passed away in October. 
   
   Moyer’s farm is licensed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to house all of her animals. She paid $200 for the license and then her farm was inspected to make sure it was suitable for kangaroos, as well as the other animals. 
   
   “They mostly [inspect] the health,” she said. “The animals need to be taken care of right.” 
   
   Because of the white tail deer she owns, she works with the Department of Natural Resources as well to keep her farm up-to-par. 
   
   She added that USDA inspectors can arrive without notice and perform an inspection, but she hasn’t seen them in awhile. 
   
   “I haven’t seen them in five years,” she said. “They could show up tomorrow. It’s just one of those things.” 
   
   She’s confident she would pass an inspection if they were to arrive today. 
   
   The kangaroos need to have a six-foot high fences that are three feet apart. Currently the kangaroos live in a barn to stay warm. 
   
   Keeping the kangaroos fed is a costly endeavor. Moyer said the milk is imported from Australia and sent to Colorado. It costs her $200 a month for milk and the food is made in Missouri. She usually orders three bags and treats, which costs about $150 a month. 
   
   “They love sweet potatoes, too,” she said. 
   
   The price per month varies, as the kangaroos will go on “eating sprees” that rack up costs. 
   
   Moyer said she rarely receives negative responses about her kangaroos or other animals. 
   
   But, why kangaroos? Well, Moyer said, “it just happened.” And after owning and caring for animals for more than 27 years she said she doesn’t want to give it up and hopes to own more in the future.
target: – While she may not have been hopping mad, a Wisconsin woman certainly wasn't happy about being told to leave a McDonald's in Beaver Dam with the animal she says is her support kangaroo. According to TMJ4, police told Diane Moyer to leave the restaurant after a customer complained about Jimmy, the 8-month-old kangaroo she had sitting in an infant car seat. She explained that the kangaroo is considered a therapy animal and that she has a doctor's note of approval, but she was still asked to leave by a police officer who told her a customer had said it wasn't appropriate or safe to have the kangaroo in the restaurant. Moyer, who lives on a 70-acre farm with Jimmy, four other kangaroos, and assorted other animals, tells the Daily Citizen that the marsupials are among the "most loving, trustworthy animals that I have ever had" and that authorities have fully inspected her farm to make sure it's suitable for kangaroos. She says she has taken Jimmy to that McDonald's many times before, as well as to the movies and her church, and nobody else has complained. "I wish the person in McDonald's would have just come and talked to me instead," she says. (Last year, an Iraq vet in Ohio was ordered to get rid of his 14 "therapy ducks.")