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.”

View photos The vicious roo attack left the personal trainer requiring 45 stitches. Source: 7 News More

View photos Templestowe residents now say that the menacing roo has been a trouble for some time. Source: 7 News More

View photos Now back on her feet, the Melbourne mother of two said it could have been so much worse. Source: 7 News More

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.

View photos Mrs Urquhart was rushed to the hospital by her husband, Robert. Photo: Supplied More

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