Thread: Feral Cats

Was doing some work on great barrier back in the early 2000’s and was a great story circulating round at the time. God I hope it was true… old mate has been on a cat trapping contract for a few weeks Being a bit feral at the best of times that long out of human contact lowered his inhibitions a touch further and he decided a bit a tayloring would be a good way to while the evenings away. Fast forward another few weeks and the end of his contract he dons the efforts of his sewing and decides to head straight to the pub to show off the fruits of his labours. He steps out of the bush into the middle of what passed for town right into the middle of a camera wielding bus load of tourists. His full multicolour feral cat tuxedo complete with a different type of ‘tails’ and cat head epaulettes along with the reek of somewhat dried but still fresh cat was apparently quite the topic of conversation for the Japanese tourists for the remainder of the tour and one imagines lead to all sorts of legends about the ‘bush men of barrier’.