Video: Man fights off kangaroo that was trying to drown his dog in a river: 'Let go of my dog!'

An Australian man was forced to fight a kangaroo to rescue his dog, which was being held under water by the wild animal and appeared to be close to drowning.

Mildura, Australia, resident Mick Moloney said he was stretching near a river when he realized that his dog Hatchi, an Akita, wasn't beside him.

Moloney said that he looked toward the river and saw a "massive kangaroo" with it arms in the water staring at him, he told ABC Radio Melbourne.

"After about 15 seconds, Hatchi came up and he was in a headlock with this kangaroo," the man said. "Water was just gushing out of his mouth and he yelped quite badly."

Moloney said he made a loud noise to try to scare off the kangaroo, but when it didn't budge, he said, "All right, I got to get in there."

"I thought, I've got to video this, because no one is going to believe this," he added.

Once in the water, things appeared quite serious as Moloney approached the kangaroo and his dog, who was clearly in distress.

“I’m going to punch your f**king head in. Let go of my dog,” the man told the kangaroo, Outkick reported.

A short fight, which Moloney described as "a bit of a tussle in the water," ensued with the kangaroo, who wasn't willing to leave without a fight.

Moloney noted that the animal came after him a second time before he got out of the water.

"The kangaroo basically looked like it was about to kick the legs out at me, and I splashed some water in its face and tried to take off, and it had another go at me as I was leaving," he said. "I got my dog back, that's the main thing."

Not showing any weakness, Moloney claimed that he would continue to walk the same path near the riverbank with his dogs and that he's not going to let the kangaroo win.

"I can't not go that way," he remarked. "I don't want the roos thinking that we're scared."

"My tussling with roo days are pretty much done, though, 'cause that thing was strong," the Aussie continued. "Let's just call it a draw."

Moloney added that he does love animals and "wasn't trying to be cruel" but was simply defending his dog.

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