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Volunteers Capture Missing Wallaby

Credit: AP Online

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ROLESVILLE, N.C. -

A missing wallaby that escaped from a Rolesville veterinarian's hospital on Wednesday has been safely captured.

Searchers found the marsupial named Sydney near Monument Park in Rolesville shortly before 11 p.m., Saturday evening.

The young wallaby got loose after it jumped a fence at the Rolesville Veterinary Hospital Wednesday afternoon.

Sydney was at the hospital receiving treatment for an abscessed tooth when he escaped.

Residents and volunteers spent nearly two days calling in sightings of the missing wallaby.

At one point Friday night, searchers said they were within five feet of Sydney but his quick feet allowed to him to get away.

The wallaby is owned by Noah's Landing, a petting zoo located in Coats, North Carolina.

Searchers put him in a cage and transported him back to the clinic where we are told he has been slurping up water while doctors give him fluids and give him a complete check.

His owners tell NBC-17, he'll need to stay at the veterinary hospital for few days. (Indoors this time!)

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