Walking around Mauao took a lot longer than normal, Dee said, because of the amount of people who wanted to ask about Moa and/or pat him. "People stop their cars and take photos," she said.
"He's very social, he's like a little rockstar," Michelle said.
Michelle and Dee saw Moa advertised on Trade Me about seven weeks ago and drove from Auckland to Te Akau to pick him up immediately.
He was only two days old.
Dee was so affected by what she saw in Te Akau that she's organising a volunteer working bee to make-over the refuge where Moa came from.
Now he's toilet trained (he uses the kitty litter) and is starting to wean himself off the bottle and develop a taste for green leafy things.
When he's older he'll spend his days in the backyard and his nights curled up on the couch, the couple said. Dee's mum wasn't rapt to see Moa turn up at Christmas time.
However, by the end of the day he was inside with the rest of the family, she said.
