A woman has captured the shocking moment she discovered a mischievous koala hanging upside down from her roof.
Shelley Banders came across the furry intruder swinging from the rafters of her farmhouse in southwest Gippsland in rural Victoria last month.
The mother-of-two was alerted to the marsupials presence on her property by her dog Dennis, who had been barking at the koala from the deck.
Shelley Banders, from southwest Gippsland, rural Victoria, was shocked to discover a koala hanging upside down from the rafters of her farmhouse
After making sure her two children weren t outside, Ms Banders looked through her kitchen window to see a mass of grey fur wedged between the grapevine and the spouting .