Geeze I'd hate to have some of you guys on a jury. All this, I thought I saw ,it might have been, here's a very fuzzy picture or a video where it's impossible to actually identify the animal but it must be a panther/cougar/jaguar.and if this story/myth gets spread around by enough people for long enough it must be "true".
These stories have been going around for 60 years, and guess what,there has not been 1 single solitary,irrefutable , shred of evidence to prove they exist in Australia ever produced.
Paw prints...most school kids could fake them.
Animal/stock kills....packs of wild/feral dogs or even feral cats/pigs
Photos/videos.....in this day and age of digital enhancement you've got to be kidding.
To give an example a friend and I were driving from Horsham to Mildura very late 1 night,we were tired and yes we had consumed a couple of stubbies, (Melbourne to Mildura was a 6 pack trip)a mob of sheep appeared coming down the road towards us, we both saw them,we slowed the car down to a walking speed as we got closer, we both commented that it was odd that a mob of sheep would be on the road at that time of night,when we were about 10/15 yards from them the bloody things vanished, they were a mirage that we both saw in the middle of the night, we discussed what had happened for several years and have never had an explanation for what happened.
So untill somebody can produce a warm body of one of these beasts, no, not a feral cat, but a real live or very recently deceased big cat with dna testing, I'm sorry but I think you believers a having a big w@#nk and need to loosen your grip on yourselves
