Big Cats In Australia

Another australian big cat site has been created. 

Dont forget to visit our main australian big cats site.! 

Mark Fraser in the Uk has put together some interesting photos of cryptid big cats in the United Kingdom.

 

Great book to have a look at is The Deakin Puma study by Professor John  henry which dealt with big cat reports in the Grampian area,he concluded their was a possible breeding population of pumas in the area.Even though the majority of the reports talked about black cats..

More big cat kills are being reported in springwood area, trying to take some casts tomorrow for comparison.

We have just returned looking for big cat evidence and reports from spot x..collected some great scat and some furballs of probably owl.Filmed the king scat mentioned on our main site australian big cats.

mike,in november 2007 i was working on a job at ######## beach caravan park in waA.bout 530 in the arfternoon i drove to a hill just outside of town about 2 mins away to get better  phone reception.while i was on the phone i saw a large black cat walking calmly [distance] 100 meters past me on an open patch of scrub,i watched in amazment at this thing slowly walking south into thicker scrub.Its tail was nearly as long as its body and i tried to judge the size and would say it was  over a meter long and in between knee and hip height.it was longer than higher. 5 times bigger than any normal cat ive seen and i have been around australia twice camping and seen lots of feral cats especially in the south west corner of wa.Went back into town and told the local owner of the deli and he told me of a few stories of hunters that were pig shooting seeing a big black cat, and a kangaroo carcuss dragged up a tree on seperate occasions.Also a lady walking on ###### beach seeing one and greg a local builder saw one as he was driving into ####### beach.Not many friends believe me but i only wish i had a camera,definately a hot spot for big cats i think as the national parks there are full of wild life.Thought i would share this with you.   THANKS   NATHAN

Big cats article appeared today in the Haweksbury gazette February 27, 2007.

The article quotes a witness reporting the animal was bigger than her Rhodesian Ridgeback great dane with "silky black fur".Then Keith Hart the Rural Lands Protection Board vet is quoted as saying "I have no doubt they are big cats people are seeing..its a bredding population of black panthers living on the fringe of Sydney".The unusual government spoekeman "mis-speaks" and says "We have taken paw prints that have been analysed by zoo's and the results confirm a large cat..not a panther."

He must have missed all the reports of vet/biologists ect we have sent them saying the complete reverse.Or the report by David-Pepper-Edwards stating that a pug print taken at Bowen Mt looked like a puma.

Pumas in Australia.?

in the 1970`s Professor John henry started a study on the possibility of pumas existing in the Grampians in central Victoria.To the chagrin of many, he concluded that it appeared that there was a breeding population of pumas living in the Grampians based on eyewitness testimony and the secondary evidence like kills and pug prints that his team collected.

The  supposed origins of australian big cats are normally suggested as one of the following.

Monster feral cats,escaped and breeding zoo animals,released American mascots,relics of the marsupial lion etc.The odd thing about this bizarre "hobby" of ours is that the more you learn about the reports and secondary evidence..the less any of it makes any sense.We have reports of Puma type animals, popping up everywhere.Yet in reality, real pumas are rarely if ever seen. Hunters have spent their entire lives never seeing a puma, until their hunting dogs chase the animals up a tree.es in the US never seeing a mountain lion until their dogs chase them up a tree.

 

Big Cats in Australia have been reported since the 1870` from the Northern Territory to The Grampians.What they actually are is the big question.We are currently finishing a book on the phenomena of large cats in Australia after 7 years of writing about it.

This picture shows the "standard" aftermath of a big cat attack on a foal in central victoria several months ago.Nice and "neat" unlike a dog attack.