A Golden Retriever certainly surprised her owner, Kerry McKinnon, one day when she brought home a new friend in the form of a Koala. Asha and her owner are from Strathdownie in Western Victoria, a rural district approximately 336kms from the capital Melbourne.

“It was quite early in the morning, and my husband yelled out to me to come have a look at something,” Kerry told News.com.au.

“I didn’t know what he was talking about at first, but then I saw this tiny baby koala snuggled on top of Asha.” she continued.

Strathdownie sees its temperatures drop to 5C or 41F in the early hours, which meant the joey probably found the warmth it was looking for in Asha’s warm fur.

Kerry wasn’t really prepared for such an odd moment.

“I just burst out laughing. Poor Asha didn’t know what to think; she just kept looking at me with such a confused look,” Kerry recalled. “She looked a bit guilty when I came out to see what was going on. Her expression was hilarious.”

Asha seemed smitten with her new friend though.

“She kept looking back at the koala bear, but she wasn’t trying to get him off her or anything. She was happy to let him snuggle into her,” Kerry said.

Kerry and her husband don’t have a clue how the little creature found its way to their dog’s company but it is highly possible that the little marsupial got separated from its mother.

“I think the koala bear baby fell out of his mum’s pouch and didn’t know what to do. He would have just wandered over to our back porch and seen the dogs in their beds, then decided to snuggle in Asha’s fur because it’s nice and warm,” she said.

It was probably for the better. If the little Koala didn’t find Asha, it may not have survived being alone out there.

“Asha definitely saved the koala’s life by keeping him warm. He would have died out there if left alone all night. The poor thing could have been taken by a fox or something too,” Kerry said.

The joey made a “huge fuss” when it was time to say goodbye to her new friend. Even Kelly found it really difficult to separate the two.

“I think dogs have that protective instinct. The koala didn’t want to leave Asha’s back. When we took the koala off to wrap it in a blanket, it hissed at me and carried on,” Kerry said.

“I think it would have been happy to have just slept there all day. It was really an amazing animal friendship to see and so uniquely Australian.” she continued.

The lost koala was brought to a vet, and thankfully ended up being healthy. The adorable joey was talen to a local koala carer who would watch over him until he would be deemed ready to go back into the wild.

Asha and the koala were featured on the news so check them out below!

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Source: My Positive Outlooks