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Woman with baby kangaroo forced out of McDonald’s

A Wisconsin woman is hopping mad after she and her baby kangaroo were forced out of a local McDonald’s.

Diana Moyer had brought 8-month-old Jimmy to Mickey D’s in Beaver Dam, Wis., when someone called cops to complain.

Jimmy was wrapped in a blanket and tucked in an infant car seat. When Beaver Dam cops showed up, Moyer produced a letter from a doctor saying Jimmy is a therapy animal who helps her deal with emotional distress.

Before last week’s incident kicked into high gear, Moyer left.

“I wish the person in McDonald’s would have just come and talked to me,” Moyer, 53, told The Post on Wednesday.

“I would have explained that this animal is needed and he could see that Jimmy wasn’t going to hurt anyone. He’s very gentle, he’s just a baby.”

Moyer said Jimmy goes all over with her. He’s been to that McD’s before, to the movies and even to her LDS church — never with any complaints, according to Moyer.

Larry and Diana Moyer live in Beaver Dam while keeping five kangaroos and other animals on their farm, 11 miles away in Columbus, Wis.

Those other animals include sheep, goats, emu, white-tail deer, horses, ducks, geese, chickens, peacocks and a dog.

Beaver Dam police said city codes prohibit wild animals and farm creatures, such as kangaroos.

The Moyers used to keep kangaroos in Beaver Dam until police warned them seven years ago that the marsupials were illegal within city limits.

So the Moyers moved the kangaroos to Columbus. Despite last week’s dust-up, Moyer said she’ll keep taking Jimmy around with her — even to Beaver Dam.

“I’ve been taking kangaroos out for seven years and no one has ever said a thing,” the defiant kangaroo mom said. “I’m not afraid to come out to do it again, just because someone had a panic attack. If they had come to just meet Jimmy, they’d see he wouldn’t harm anyone.”