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When they're not busy forming unlikely animal friendships and Deborah Driggs Archivesstrolling down suburban streets, koalas enjoy a bit of home invasion, it seems.

14-year-old Australian boy Nicholas Sneath was reading in bed when he heard a noise outside his bedroom door. It was a koala, just sitting there.

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"I was pretty petrified. I started to shut the door and it ran inside. I backed away to the corner of the room and it started coming toward me so I jumped up on the bed," Sneath told Daily Mail Australia.

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The inquisitive and probably quite lost koala seemed to have gained entry to the family home through the doggie door.

Nicholas' mother Karena told the publication that she and her husband were in the family lounge room when they heard their dog growling at something.

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In the hallway, they found the world's worst burglar, non-plussed by the scene it was causing.

"My husband looked down the hallway and it was just sitting there. We were laughing and shrieking and screaming all at the same time. We didn't know if it was dangerous or what was going to happen," Sneath said.

Since European settlement, roughly 80 percent of koala habitat has been decimated, with land cleared for farming and housing developments. No wonder then, that these little guys show up in people's homes occasionally.

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The koala eventually found its way outside, climbing up a ladder and into a nearby tree -- safe to gate crash another day.

"The whole thing only lasted ten minutes, but what a ten minutes it was!" said Karena Sneath.

Be free, friend! Hope you found a nice tree to call your own.

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