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Has anyone touched on this subject.

I do recall you brought up this very topic Paul about a year ago

On a recent expedition to the gold coast we found big cat prints and Yowie footprints side by side

Have you something to add to this subject, have you found big cat prints and Yowie prints in the same vicinity yourself? Would love to hear about it if you have?

Chewy,
I haven't any tracks of bigcats but I have been within 30 metres of a big cat in the location I'm talking about in the scat post.
I was returning home late one evening and come around a corner and low end behold, there is a large black cat sitting on the side of the road against a tree as I rounded the corner the animal up and leapt away.
It took me some time before I got out of the car and checked the area it had been sitting in and compared the height of the animal against the tree.
Its back came to a mark on the tree and it was approx 60cm from the ground.
This animal had a rounded face, with rounded ears, yellow eyes, jet black coat and the body and tail were about the same length approx 1.2meters (body) tail 1.2meteres(tail).
I had spoken to the property owner about big cats some years earlier and he stated that he had seen one about 18 years to 20years ago.
When I got home after spotting this one I rang the guy and said "guess what I seen" his immediate reply was a panther. He then continued to tell me that he had seen another animal not so long ago in a similar part of the property.
The only reason I feel that they are in the same location is because of the seclusion, lack of humans and no development in the area . They appear to hang out in the more isolated areas of the country.

Yeti wrote:Chewy,
I haven't any tracks of bigcats but I have been within 30 metres of a big cat in the location I'm talking about in the scat post.
I was returning home late one evening and come around a corner and low end behold, there is a large black cat sitting on the side of the road against a tree as I rounded the corner the animal up and leapt away.
It took me some time before I got out of the car and checked the area it had been sitting in and compared the height of the animal against the tree.
Its back came to a mark on the tree and it was approx 60cm from the ground.
This animal had a rounded face, with rounded ears, yellow eyes, jet black coat and the body and tail were about the same length approx 1.2meters (body) tail 1.2meteres(tail).
I had spoken to the property owner about big cats some years earlier and he stated that he had seen one about 18 years to 20years ago.
When I got home after spotting this one I rang the guy and said "guess what I seen" his immediate reply was a panther. He then continued to tell me that he had seen another animal not so long ago in a similar part of the property.
The only reason I feel that they are in the same location is because of the seclusion, lack of humans and no development in the area . They appear to hang out in the more isolated areas of the country.

Is this picture a claw mark?

Yeti wrote: Is this picture a claw mark?

Could be, (4 claw marks etc) I'm not sure what else would make those marks. The distance between the claw marks in a relation to your hand certainly looks like it could be Big cat related.

Thanks for sharing

I was of the same opinion.

id hate to piss on ya fire, but i bet you will find koalas in the same spot as yowies, and bandicoots, and hairy nosed wombats. its not hard to see why either, our countries woodlands have been raped, chipped and burnt so that there is such a small percentage left, well my point is where else ya going to find all these animals? but in those small pockets of bush that have been saved from the greed of man. all these animals in small concentration, they are bound to cross each others path.

lil foot wrote:id hate to piss on ya fire, but i bet you will find koalas in the same spot as yowies, and bandicoots, and hairy nosed wombats. its not hard to see why either, our countries woodlands have been raped, chipped and burnt so that there is such a small percentage left, well my point is where else ya going to find all these animals? but in those small pockets of bush that have been saved from the greed of man. all these animals in small concentration, they are bound to cross each others path.

Whats your point, thats what I said. So are you saying the bandicoots may have made the claw marks

Yeti wrote:

lil foot wrote:id hate to piss on ya fire, but i bet you will find koalas in the same spot as yowies, and bandicoots, and hairy nosed wombats. its not hard to see why either, our countries woodlands have been raped, chipped and burnt so that there is such a small percentage left, well my point is where else ya going to find all these animals? but in those small pockets of bush that have been saved from the greed of man. all these animals in small concentration, they are bound to cross each others path.

Whats your point, thats what I said. So are you saying the bandicoots may have made the claw marks

sorry yeti, i wasnt disputing your story about cats, in fact i had a sighting of one, so im a %100 with you there. im just giving a reason why we might find cat prints together with yowie prints. especially in good areas of food sources and water.

Seeker,
Thats right the pic does need to be rotated 90degrees, if I remeber correctly they were about 2ft from the ground.

The area itself doesn't have wombats or koalas. The claw mark was within a couple of hundred metres of one of my best bed structures.
Not saying that they are related, just a coinscidence.