Hello Mike,
I emailed you in January regarding the book and kept your email in a
folder, which has been handy as a lady whom I was speaking to last
week told me of a probable cat sighting. This woman was exercising
three dogs in the pine forest reserve south of ###### road when she saw
two tan animals cross the forest track in front of her vehicle. I
asked her to take me to the site where this sighting took place and
going from her being able to place the vehicle and indicate the
crossing point her visual was approx. 100 metres away. We walked
several hundred metres along the track but as there had been heavy
rain in the week since the sighting there didnt appear to be much
sign. I spotted fresh emu, kangaroo, fox, and the dog tracks but no
print that looked big enough for cat.. I asked her to descibe the
animals bearing in mind that she would have had only seconds to
memorize what she saw. The two animals crossed the track together
roughly side by side from a new planted pines 1.5 metres high into
thick unthinned pines 7 metres high and the open ground was about 8
metres wide. She described them of being tan in colour long body and tail
shortish nose they travelled low slung to the ground.
The lady was probably shocked by what she saw and kept driving past
the site at about 10 kmhr and noticed a fox run across the track
further along and recalls that the fox was a lot smaller in size to
her tan animals. She thought the three dalmation dogs running about
the young pines probably disturbed all of these animals and they
crossed across in front of her to get away from the dogs.
Later that day she filled up the vehicle at the local service station
and told the owner that she saw some animals and his reaction was to
laugh and indicted that was not the only one around ###### who have
had a sighting.
What I find interesting is that she still took the dogs back to the
same area daily for their daily exercise after the sighting in the
week after the sighting. She did not appear to be worried about going
back to the area. Would the dogs being exercised in that area frighten
off your animals ?
