Thread: New Zealands big Cats

There is/was a very large feral moggy living around the Landcorp block to the south of Mt. Tauhara in Taupo. I disturbed it once in a paddock across the road from our farm house while out training for cross country. Thought it was a stray dog at first as it ran away, but it stopped and looked at me before diving through the fence into the black berry. I got a good look at it, basically a very stocky cat of some kind, about the same size as a mature lab, maybe a little shorter height wise, but much much larger than the average house cat. Big enough to take a smaller sheep I reckon, easily able to take a lamb. I got the usual "cool story" when I told my parents. Then my mum saw it a couple of days later in the same paddock. Didn't see it for another 2 years after that, on the same block but about a hundred yards from our neighbors house. We turned up to get some mutton and they were standing out on the drive with binos checking it out. It's facial structure looked more like the big cats in Africa etc. What ever it was it would have been well fed.

This one made the mistake of showing itself while I was culling Goats on a neighbours forestry block. They must eat a LOT of native birds going by the size of some of them

Originally Posted by 7mmsaum

This one made the mistake of showing itself while I was culling Goats on a neighbours forestry block. They must eat a LOT of native birds going by the size of some of them

Now that is a good cat. Dead

Originally Posted by Beavis

There is/was a very large feral moggy living around the Landcorp block to the south of Mt. Tauhara in Taupo.

PM sent - either I know you or I know your neighbours. Taupo raised myself. They reckon this cat was the size of a small lab