Thread: Big Cats, myth or real ?

I hope you picked it up and delivered it to a museum.

Feral cats can get quite large certainly significantly larger than the average domestic moggie.

As for "big cats" aka mountain lions, panthers etc? MYTH

In the picture above I suspect the hair and teeth pronounced due to the dessication and subsequent shrinkage of the skin.

Feral cats have been known to be quite large.

I suspect that we could be seeing a form of Darwinism / survival of the fittest at work here, with larger specimens surviving and breeding.

This could especially be true in areas where the resident food source (marsupials, sheep, feral rabbits) is quite large as well.

We could see the emergence of the Australian Cougar !

I've met a few Australian Cougars.

In the wild, the domestic cat grows quite large. Plenty of big'uns in the forests of Victoria.

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

I've met a few Australian Cougars.

I BET YOU HAVE

Kylie Minogue is 44, does she count?

Originally Posted by VladTepes

Feral cats can get quite large certainly significantly larger than the average domestic moggie.

As for "big cats" aka mountain lions, panthers etc? MYTH

In the picture above I suspect the hair and teeth pronounced due to the dessication and subsequent shrinkage of the skin.

Not Myth...........my self and two other blokes , while spot lighting for rabbits got a good look at one many years ago.
Very long tail and the movement of the animal was very distinctive.
No wild moggie grows to the size of a Labador.

I spoke to the vet who was sent to Lithgow by the then Dept Agriculture to investigate the big cat sightings there about 10 years ago.

He said he had no doubt there was a Puma there as he had found scats that were much bigger than any cat scat he had seen before, but he never got to see one even staking out the area for some time and the use of cameras.
Regards Philip A

Originally Posted by goingbush

I reckon Ive seen a few, Dead certain I saw a big black cat on the Acheron Way a few years ago.

Found this a few days ago near Eramanga QLD


Beard looks like a Mountain Lion ??

I'm no catologist but looked twice the size of a domestic cat, any ideas ??.

By the looks of the teeth, not very old. Perhaps not fully grown? Whatever it is, I wouldn't like to bump into it at night, Bob