From USA Today:

CANBERRA, Australia (Reuters) -- Australians living in the nation's drought-ravaged capital have been warned to keep their distance from aggressive kangaroos after the iconic marsupials attacked one woman and killed a pet dog.

Eastern Grey kangaroos, which can grow 1.7 meters (5.6 feet) tall and weigh 70 kg (154 lb), have started moving out of the parched bush into inner Canberra suburbs during the day to look for grass and water, increasing their contact with people.

A senior wildlife ecologist with Environment ACT, Murray Evans, said on Wednesday the kangaroos could pose a threat to people and dogs, with one woman savaged by a large kangaroo as she was walking her small, pet dog in a paddock last week.

"Her dog went near the kangaroo and she followed and before she knew it the kangaroo lashed out, scratching her down the side of her body," Evans told Reuters.

Another woman told how a kangaroo drowned one of the four dogs she was walking with a friend, attacking it in a pond and holding it under the water with its hind legs while it hit out at one of the other dogs with its front legs.

"My friend started shouting: 'There's a kangaroo in the pond. It's got Summer'. It was surreal, like your worst nightmare," Christine Canham told the Canberra Times newspaper.

"She was screaming and screaming. The kangaroo just stared back at us. I will never forget that."

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"Oh, Clive. What a lovely idea you had! A trip to Australia was exactly what I needed to lift my spirits!"

"Dearest Jasmine, it was the least I could do after the horrors that have befallen you these past years. It does me good to see the faintest of smiles on your delicate face."

"And what luck that the officials allowed us to bring Mimsy, don't you think?"

"One look at your downcast face and even the most hardened of officials knew he couldn't refuse you. Mimsy is more than a pet, she is your rescuer, bringing you back from the depths of despair!"

"I so well remember the day that you brought her to me. For the first time I felt as if life had meaning. And look at her now, running ahead of us, frolicking there in the paddock. How happy she must be, leash-free down under!"

"Oh look! She must spot something ahead around the curve! Listen to her merry bark! She's probably found some animal friend with which to play!"

"Oh Clive! I do so love you!

"And I you!"

"Clive, does it seem strangely quiet to you? What has changed? I can't seem to put my finger on it."

"I'm not sure, precious Jasmine. The birds are still singing, the wind still softly sighing....I have it! Mimsy's merry bark! I can no longer hear it."

"Mimsy! Oh sweetest Mimsy! Come to Mama darling! Come here my Mimsy!.....Clive, she doesn't answer!"

"Fear not, Jasmine, I am sure once we round this curve we will see her. There, in that pond! Isn't that her?"

"I don't think so Clive, it is much too big to be Mimsy. Oh Clive, how exciting! It's a kangaroo! What a lovely sight! A kangaroo standing in a pond!"

"Although.....don't you think it a bit peculiar? Look how it just stares at us....I think...Oh I hope not....Darling, call Mimsy again, quickly!

"Mimsy! Oh Mimsy. To me Mimsy, to Mama!....Oh, I think I heard something!...but not a bark...more like a gurgle....."

"Oh woe is me Jasmine, oh avert your eyes my darling!....No, don't  look!"

"Why, Clive, why?...Oh, tell me!...Tell me what has happened!...I can't bear it, I must look.....No No No! Oh, Clive, tell me I do not see what I think I see.......!!"

"Oh Jasmine, I see it too.....It is what we fear most!.....A kangaroo has drowned our precious Mimsy!"