Australian Big Cats

3064—LARGE BLACK CAT—HAWKESBURY ELECTORATE
Mr Ray Williams to the Minister for Emergency Services, and Minister for Water representing the Minister for Primary Industries, Minister for Energy, Minister for Mineral Resources, and Minister for State Development—
"Given there have now been over 320 confirmed and documented sightings by residents of a large black cat referred to as either a panther or a jaguar in the areas of the Hawkesbury electorate from Kenthurst to Maraylya, Kurrajong and Colo and that tracks of a large cat surround sites where several animals such as lambs, deer and goats have been killed and that the most recent sighting involved two small children:
What measures are currently being undertaken to remove the risk of a person or small child being attacked by these animals?"
Question asked on 9 May 2008 (session 54-1) and published in Questions & Answers Paper No. 64.No answer has been published

Looks like one of the most interesting big cat myths/legends has crumbled.
The old "lithgow Panther".
We managed to view what appears to be the frozen body of an animal that was shot within a few kms a couple of months after the whole debacle/circus..and we think that there is about a 99% chance this animal is it.
Its another big feral...
Why didnt the researchers who were on to it quickly just not do one simple thing.
Go and stand where the cat was filmed, with some form of height indicator, to give us a relative height in the video.And Just film from the same location.
Did they do that..naaggh..too hard.
And why did no one mention much about the moggy coloured feral cat that was in the same footage at the start that was virtually the same size as the "panther".
When the cat is stuffed we will try and take it back to the same location and film from approx the same spot.
We have found that looking up, or down a hill, when filming cats throws off the whole perspective of size.
The other thing that confuses witnesses is viewing cats that are fairly long legged which makes them look bigger.Colour them black,place them on a hill and shazzam..a "panther".