'He would have killed me': Melbourne mum played dead during savage kangaroo attack

A Melbourne jogger is lucky to be after a two-metre tall kangaroo shredded her arm leaving her dazed and bloodied on a popular walking trail.

Debbie Urquhart, from Templestowe, needed 45 stitches in her right arm, shoulder and buttocks after losing a lot of blood during the Saturday morning ordeal.

The personal trainer said she left her home about 6am and had only jogged 500 metres when the marsupial kicked her on the right side of her body.

“Well if he had have come back for me, he would have killed… he was too strong for me, I couldn’t get away from him,” the mother-of-two told 7 News.

“(It) really hit me and knocked me down into the grass and was jumping on me and I was screaming, my natural reaction was to scream.”

It was only when the 54-year-old played dead, the big roo backed off.

Bleeding heavily, she staggered about 500m home and her husband quickly rushed her to the emergency room at Austin Hospital.

“She was just standing there covered, covered in blood from head to toe and t shirt and shorts were shredded to pieces, looked like she’d been through a mincer,” Robert Urquhart said.

Local residents now say the rogue roo has become a menace and something needed to be done, but authorities said they were yet to receive more than one complaint about a particular kangaroo.

”He ripped me to pieces,” Mrs Urquhart told the Manningham Leader.

“He just kept on kicking into me and I was trying to crawl away.

“He left me for a bit and I thought he was going to come back and kill me.”

“Every time I close my eyes its pretty vivid, it’s horrible,” Mrs Urquhart said. “If he had got to my stomach, I could have been killed.”

The personal trainer was released from hospital on Sunday and was able to walk again the same day.

She said the attack won’t keep her from exercising, but she will be changing her jogging course.