The Grand Prairie Police Department gets interesting 911 calls, but this one will be talked about for days.
Police in the Dallas suburb received a 911 call just before 7:45 a.m. Friday about a kangaroo hopping westbound in the 2200 block of Prince John Drive.
Officers arrived but didn't catch a kangaroo -- the animal was, in fact, a wallaby.
"I have been doing this for 20 years, and I will probably never see something like this again," Detective Lyle Gensler said.
John Richardson, the 911 caller, sent NBC 5 DFW a photo of the Wall-E the wallaby sitting at his front door.
Grand Prairie police said the wallaby was very excited, saying officers had a hard time controlling him while they waited for animal control to arrive. When asked how he knew how to catch a wallaby, Charles Munoz, the animal control officer, replied "Animal Planet" with a laugh.
The wallaby had tags and was returned to his owner unharmed.
"As far as we know, we don't have anything in our city ordinance that says you can't have one, “ said Danielle Tate, animal services manager.
Wall-E's owners came to get him from animal control after friends saw on social media that he was loose. Their son-in-law said they believe someone tried to steal Wall-E because their fence was ripped.
Jessica Churchill, the owners' daughter, said her father gave the wallaby to her mother for Christmas after she said she wanted a kangaroo someday.
NBC 5's Julie Fine contributed to this report.
Photo Credit: Bob Fitch/GrandPrairieReporter.com