We're still lacking a scale. That's always the issue. The forward-facing photo looks very domestic-cat-like. I am entirely unconvinced by the pawprint because it could be from anywhere and is not explicitly connected to the animal in the video.
I tend to agree, but the vid wouldn't play for me, so I could only see the pics which have nothing but the grass to guess the size by. I would like to know the grass height. Other than looking very fit and muscular, without scale, it can be a regular cat.
Is it just me, or can I see a white chest stripe when It turns for the first time, and looks at the 'filmer', and a partial glimpse the second time?
We do get some big feral cats here - more the exception than the rule though Kondoru. I suppose that all it would take is one or two of those large forest cats from nor'west Europe to go pinkeye up North, here, and I reckon that we'd be in trouble.
SOURCE: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2020/0...anther-report-find-stuffed-toy/3161595611949/
Since the caller is unknown, would you guess the prankster called the police or a passerby thought this was real?
Do you know why these cats have been killed? Are they considered pests?
G'day stillill,
Well said.
There was a famous incident of a big cat in Victoria, I think covered in FT, where all that was left was a 3 foot tail taken as a trophy by the person who trapped it. When the DNA was sequenced some time later, it turned out to be a domestic cat. That's a pretty big tail for a moggie, and suggests a body around 4 or so feet at least.
The only issue with it is it does not look like an average domestic cat. The pronounced shoulders and hind legs look like they are designed to bring down larger game rather than rats, birds or rabbits.
This Cat seems as though it is some kind of hybrid, it has normal cat-like moves but shows that it has much stronger hind muscles than the norm?
If you had a cat tail of 3 ft it'd give the animal a length around that of a large male lion. The tail was in fact reported to he 60cm, and if that's the only part preserved it sounds to me at least that it's more likely to be a mog with a long tail.
The irony is that we brought them over and we are far more destructive.
Apologies, I was going from memory. I do remember it was fecking massive, though. 60cm is not to be sneezed at. That's at the upper range for cats I've owned for total body length tail included. (Then again, a Maine Coon easily gets much bigger than that.)
The real irony is that compared to the rabbits and mice, the feral cats and dogs are practically benign.
