A dog named Lucky helped his family find a $24,000 gold nugget

Lucky the dog lived up to his name on Sunday.

As part of their Mother's Day festivities, Lucky's family in Bendigo, Australia, decided to take him on a walk. The father, who asked he remain anonymous, told The Bendigo Advertiser he walked right past a gold nugget, but one of his daughters accidentally kicked it, and after looking down and seeing the golden object, she quickly scooped it up.

The family went and had the nugget appraised, and learned it weighs 20 ounces and is worth more than $24,000 in U.S. dollars and $35,000 in Australian dollars. "We've come on some tough times so it's really good because we've been struggling financially," the dad said. "It couldn't be a better time really." The New Zealand Herald reports that of the 10 biggest gold nuggets ever discovered in the world, eight have been found in Australia.

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