Big black cats ( panther) Australia

[waruikazi]

They don't even need to be big dogs to do that kind of damage Steve. I see packs of camp dogs bringing down cattle on the flood plain behind my house, these camp dogs don't weigh much more than 20kg each.

 

[SteveNT]

They don't even need to be big dogs to do that kind of damage Steve. I see packs of camp dogs bringing down cattle on the flood plain behind my house, these camp dogs don't weigh much more than 20kg each.

I'm with ya. Most of the pack that brought down the banteng were small dogs. Without the big one leading them they would be lucky to take out a possum!

 

[finchie]

This thread has been a very interesting read. IMO I believe that they are feral cats. Those Maine coons are huge and could quite easily become much bigger. We have a Bengal that's just a year old and much bigger than my normal domestic cat already. Plus that thing is a prick for catching wildlife so have to keep it in an enclosure. So the thought of cats catching all sorts of wildlife and becoming much bigger doesn't sound that far fetched to me

 

[PythonLegs]

Hi dear Friend.............

Hi dear friend i am an australan .i love pet.

Chances of them being legit 'big cats' and not just big ferals are about as good as ellen being australian.

 

[dragonlover1]

Jack sounds like a clown,how can so many people(inc.local farmers) who have seen this large black cat possibly have mistaken it for a wallaby(including the fact wallabies don't eat meat),totally different shape,movement style etc.many theories over many years include escaped from circus & mascot left behind by US soldiers in WW2.

 

[Aussie-Pride]

Jack sounds like a clown,how can so many people(inc.local farmers) who have seen this large black cat possibly have mistaken it for a wallaby(including the fact wallabies don't eat meat),totally different shape,movement style etc.many theories over many years include escaped from circus & mascot left behind by US soldiers in WW2.

who is jack I'm very confused lol

 

[Wrightpython]

Hi dear Friend.............

Hi dear friend i am an australan .i love pet.

He love pet looooong time.
He love it so much he wants to eat it, stir fry of course side of rice

Too true Wally. I saw a pack of wild dogs (not dingos) in the Cobourg Peninsular National Park bring down an adult Banteng cow. They were led by a big escaped pig dog. The Rangers and I tracked and shot them all.

In the 80s I was bailed up by a 12 pack of bullyxdingoes near Lake Torrens in FN SA. I shot and killed 3 and wounded 2 before they gave up on their dinner. And I only grabbed the rifle as a last minute thought. I was hunting fossils! These dogs too were pulling down cattle and big red roos. I got another 5 of the buggers over the next week and they really were hell beasts. The cockie was so happy he bought us a slab of beer, he reckoned they were dropping a cow a week for tucker and killing others just for fun.

Easy way to tell if its dingo is if you can shoot it easy no dingo track bugger for 3 days back to lair with pups then miss chance at shot due to wind means dingo

 

[Aussie-Pride]

He love pet looooong time.
He love it so much he wants to eat it, stir fry of course side of rice

same same but different.

 

[SteveNT]

He love pet looooong time.
He love it so much he wants to eat it, stir fry of course side of rice



Easy way to tell if its dingo is if you can shoot it easy no dingo track bugger for 3 days back to lair with pups then miss chance at shot due to wind means dingo

No idea what the first bits about but the dog pack were nothing like dingoes, a grubby bunch of mongrel camp dogs all shapes and colours. But the bitch leading them was no camp dog, some whitefella paid good money for that one. And lost it. Worm poo now.

 

[ajandj]

photos or it didn't happen.

old footage (crappy quality) 1973 what do you think it is? Analysis of 1973 Thylacine Footage - YouTube

well, sorry if this rains on your parade BUT... now before l say anything about the clip from you tube... remember, l am a firm believer that the Tassie Tiger is still out there in the wilds of Tassie.
I can't see how they can say it's extinct when there is so much of Tassie that is inexcessable to "most" people.

the footage... the second photo, where they circle the tail and talk about the talk... to me
it's a roo or a wallaby.. sorry... just my opinion.
Now remember, when l watched this l have just rolled out of bed after have 3 hours sleep, so please forgive me..

 

[Jungle_Freak]

I was waiting till someone noticed the second photo that was blown up so blurry , its was clearly of pic of a roo etc.
plus all the other footage is of foxes or mange ridden dingo feeding trying to be passed off as tassie tigers ?? .
Not one peice of "credible" in focus peice of video "ever" showing these so called black panthers ....

 

[Aussie-Pride]

well, sorry if this rains on your parade BUT... now before l say anything about the clip from you tube... remember, l am a firm believer that the Tassie Tiger is still out there in the wilds of Tassie.
I can't see how they can say it's extinct when there is so much of Tassie that is inexcessable to "most" people.

the footage... the second photo, where they circle the tail and talk about the talk... to me
it's a roo or a wallaby.. sorry... just my opinion.
Now remember, when l watched this l have just rolled out of bed after have 3 hours sleep, so please forgive me..

yeah I have to agree with you, thats a roo 100%

Easy way to tell if its dingo is if you can shoot it easy no dingo track bugger for 3 days back to lair with pups then miss chance at shot due to wind means dingo

Can you re-quote that so i can understand it, I've had a few goes at trying to understand what your saying and still have no clue..

 

[jack]

Jack sounds like a clown,how can so many people(inc.local farmers) who have seen this large black cat possibly have mistaken it for a wallaby(including the fact wallabies don't eat meat),totally different shape,movement style etc.many theories over many years include escaped from circus & mascot left behind by US soldiers in WW2.

this clown has seen quite alot of swamp wallabies take fright at human presence and bolt.

my swamp wallaby hypothesis (to account for sightings near sydney) is based an the incredible similarity in colour, shape and movement style, which when coupled with the low sight ability of humans at dusk or night, plus the surprise of a bolting animal seen for milleseconds makes it more a plausible hypothesis than there being a breeding population of "panthers" that have remained undetected.

seriously reptile people, have a look through your field guides, pretty much every pissant little skink, gecko or blindsnake in this vast land has been catalogued, and yet some of you believe a very large carnivorous mammal has avoided us?

 

[Aussie-Pride]

Big feral cats yes, panthers most likely not but I won't rule it out,IMO to many people have claimed to have seen them for me to just say no there not out there.

 

[Ramsayi]

I'm with Jack on this.Adding to what he has wrote improvements with cameras,not to mention just about everyone has a camera these days, has not led to any clear photographs of said animals,same as UFOs,loch ness monsters,yetis etc

 

[Aussie-Pride]

I'm with Jack on this.Adding to what he has wrote improvements with cameras,not to mention just about everyone has a camera these days, has not led to any clear photographs of said animals,same as UFOs,loch ness monsters,yetis etc

I agree with you and jack the photo quality and the information that has been brought to the table about the situation is sketchy to say the least but with the number of sightings with farmers, so called bush wise people, the average joe bow I'm not going to rule it out, they may not be panthers but some new form of feral cat that has got size about it.

 

[Ramsayi]

People mistake blue tongues for snakes in daylight hours all the time.Doesn't make them correct in any way though.

 

[cement]

Ahh now we're gettin to the bottom of it.

Fear and imagination, lovely little human attributes. Hand in hand with exaggeration.

 

[MissFuller]

i was out the back helpin my sister with the horse feed a year or so ago and all the horses started goin nuts and we where lookin around and there was this big black ****er up on the train tracks in station st in thelmere and i know a few people who have seen it in belanglo state forest

 

[waruikazi]

I parked my scooter outside the dairy... Nek minit... Got eaten by a panther...