Thread: the Australian black Panther

Originally Posted by VladTepes

Yeah I as being a little tongue in cheek there mate, sorry if it came across wrong.

I would like to try my new (well old actually but new to me) .22 Martini on the missus' cat but I'd be sleeping alone FOREVER.

Couldn't say if the delight of shooting a cat is as good as sleeping with yer missus, only one way to find out.............

I'd like to add something else to the debate about Panthera mythicus.

Facts (n) - the intelligent person's substitute for opinions.

Having worked in the news media for more than 30 years, these stories pop up every few years or so and always around Christmas time, when news is slow, and most of the news staff are on holidays. Good filler stuff, to cover slow news days, and get the public debate going.

I'm not saying panthers, yowies and the like dont exist, but I've always though it interesting that these stories, like 2 headed children born in China, goats with eight feet etc, almost always are reported around Christmas time.

If you're over 45 and have a memory which is in reasonable order, you may remember the story of a long lost female, the naked nymph, somewhere in south australia, which attracted many hundreds of seekers, to no avail... in the ensuing weeks, 'she' was seen across much of SA and one newspaper had 'her' on the front page... cute as, right down to her makeup and well worked hair...

and please excuse me but I can never resist a good headline

"Big pussy on the loose, threatens campers."

Originally Posted by Quiggers

Having worked in the news media for more than 30 years, these stories pop up every few years or so and always around Christmas time, when news is slow, and most of the news staff are on holidays. Good filler stuff, to cover slow news days, and get the public debate going.

I'm not saying panthers, yowies and the like dont exist, but I've always though it interesting that these stories, like 2 headed children born in China, goats with eight feet etc, almost always are reported around Christmas time.

If you're over 45 and have a memory which is in reasonable order, you may remember the story of a long lost female, the naked nymph, somewhere in south australia, which attracted many hundreds of seekers, to no avail... in the ensuing weeks, 'she' was seen across much of SA and one newspaper had 'her' on the front page... cute as, right down to her makeup and well worked hair...

and please excuse me but I can never resist a good headline

"Big pussy on the loose, threatens campers."

Must be showing my age here. Yes - I do remember the "Nullarbor Nymph".

And I reckon I've been threatened by a big pussy on a few occasions - not only when camping.

Nothing like the old big black cat story , lots of sightings but no proof,
i think everyone gets a bit stunned and goes into 'I don;t believe it' mode for a few short seconds when they see something out of the ordinary.

A mate and i saw one a few years ago, we were on a ridge and it was about 1 km away downhill on the other side of the gulley we watched it through our scopes ( one fixed the other a 3-9 variable) for a while trying to work out drop windage etc, it moved like a cat. looked like a cat, was not black but a darkish brown, we worked out a reference point as to its dimensions( a log it walked over) all this happened in about a minute before it disappeared into the bracken.( this included one watching while we got the rifles out of the car) Was definately not a large mangy fox!

The reference point gave it a length of over 1.5 metres, when we got to it. No soft dirt for any tracks
What was it ,have no idea, never saw it again, it was on a mates property we have been going to for over 2o years, that backed onto the Wyangala dam 'wild country'.

I believe people do see anomolies in the wild, here in Oz but until we can prove exactly what we have seen there will be sceptics.

But at the end of the day if you are sane, not under any delusional influence on what you saw then anything is possible. After all there are people who own landrovers that don;t leak oil!


john

Just sore another big cat report on the news!! more pics of them and a plaster cast foot print, the pic on the railway looked like a panther if it's real

TIM.

They keep on finding big pussy scat so why not get it DNA tested to clarify what it is from??

How to identify a "black cat"

Seriously http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/ass...tification.pdf


Martyn