Crocodile strolled Melbourne boulevards on Christmas!

Occupants out on a night walk unearthed the reptile outside a rural business, the BBC said.

Australian police are searching for the proprietor of a little crocodile discovered meandering the avenues of Melbourne on Christmas Day, media reports said.

Occupants out on a night walk unearthed the reptile outside a rural business, the BBC said.

Victoria Police said they were at first wary and went to the scene hoping to locate an expansive reptile. Rather they found a one meter long freshwater crocodile "sitting discreetly on the pathway".

Snake catcher Mark Pelley was called to deal with the surprising Christmas find in the suburb of Heidelberg Heights.

He said police called him that night saying: "Theres a crocodile strolling the roads and its presently outside a medicinal focus."

Pelley told radio station 3AW, he raced to the scene where he discovered "five police individuals being gazed around a conventional measured crocodile, around three and a half foot, and the crocodile wouldn`t withdraw".

The crocodile endeavored to rush off into the shrubs however was gotten by its tail and was presently under the watchful eye of state untamed life specialists, the BBC said.

"We`re running on the assumption that it was a pet at some stage, it was far from any waterbodies," Acting Sergeant Daniel Elliott said on Tuesday.

Pet proprietors in Victoria are permitted to keep crocodiles up to 2.5m long.