'I didn't expect it to be that large': When Eugene Dementyev heard a tap at his back door, he thought it was a cat.

When Eugene Dementyev heard a tap at his back door, he thought it was a cat - and was shocked to discover it was a kiwi.

Dementyev lives in the Wellington suburb of Broadmeadows and was watching a movie with his wife when they heard a sound at the door.

“We thought it was a cat, and it did look like a cat a little bit. But then we looked closer and it was a kiwi,” he told Morning Report.