A woman in Australia couldn’t believe her eyes when she found a 1.7-metre saltwater crocodile in her lounge room.
Jo Dodd, who lives in the city of Darwin, had gone to the room to investigate aggressive barking by her dog at 5:30 in the morning, that was when she spotted the animal.
“I couldn’t believe it… He was just watching us and was within lunging distance,” the Sydney Morning Herald quoted her as saying.
Her home is built for the tropics and doesn’t have walls all the way around, so the crocodile simply wandered in.
The 42-year-old mother assumed it was an escapee from the nearby crocodile farm - it had markings to indicate it had been in captivity.
After discovering the reptile in her home she called a ranger who took it away.
Dodd said firebreaks on her property acted as a thoroughfare for crocodiles that escape from the Darwin Crocodile Farm and head for the nearby Elizabeth River.