Play Pals Doggy Day Care owner Erin Kealey spends her days frolicking in the grass with her four-legged charges, and often comes across bountiful bouquets of four-leaf clovers.
However, while lying on her stomach taking pictures of a pup yesterday, she was eye level with a rare and elusive find.
"It was right in front of me ... It looked like a little four-leaf clover, so I picked it up, and it wasn’t — it was five.
"I was in disbelief. My daughter was the first one I told."
Not too long ago, Ms Kealey gave her daughter a handful of four-leaf clovers, which were tucked into her phone case.
Her daughter then piped up and said "imagine if you found a five-leaf". As it would happen, her daughter’s words were manifested into reality a short time later.
Ms Kealey’s lawn may be the luckiest patch of grass in Otago — she regularly finds patches of the sought-after four-leaf clovers.
"The lawn is full of clover — yesterday I found two four-leaves and one five-leaf ... A five-leaf is supposed to bring good fortune. Maybe I’ll buy a Lotto ticket."
She said she usually laminated and gave away the four-leaf clovers, but planned to keep the five-leaf clover for herself.
