Golden Retriever surprises his owner with a baby koala he just saved

The most heartwarming scene happened in Australia that proved once again that golden retrievers have the biggest hearts!

Kerry McKinnon from Strathdownie in Western Victoria is the proud mommy of a golden retriever named Asha, and he recently prepared the biggest surprise of her life with bringing home a baby koala!

The temperatures in the area of Victoria sometimes drop down to 5 degrees Celsius (41F) , which can be very dangerous to animals that don’t have thick fur coats.

“It was quite early in the morning, and my husband yelled out to me to come have a look at something,” Kerry (45) recalls in an interview  to 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. I just burst out laughing. Poor Asha didn’t know what to think; she just kept looking at me with such a confused look. She looked a bit guilty when I came out to see what was going on. Her expression was hilarious.”

Kerry admitted she wasn’t  very supportive of her dogs new friend at first.

“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” she remembers.

It is still unclear as to how the koala ended up on Asha. Most likely it happened due to the baby koala being separated from its mother since it was still young enough to be living with her. “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.”

Luckily the little baby koala bear ended up in really safe hands (or should I say paws) “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.”

After being checked by the local veterinarian, a local koala carer took the baby under their care until it can be released back into the wilderness.