Thread: Hunting Wild Cats

Originally Posted by Fawls

Awesome photo, looks like your dog shot it!

Mate my dog loves killing cats even more than I do.
I have to be so careful when we go into the city that she is always on the lead when out of the truck as ( just quietly ) shes killed a few in the big smoke !

I've shot quite a few, this was one of the biggest

Photos of doc guys on the island holding them by the tail, level with shoulders and theirs ears are dragging on thexground... Lots of kiwis to nibble on

Seen heaps in the ureweras

Someone should start up a post called "Operation Fluffy" and we can all post our wild cat kills on it as we get them.

It could double as a lost & found page also

Originally Posted by Boaraxa

It could double as a lost & found page also

Bloody splendid idea, OK I will kick it off.....


FOUND, one cat

Seen two tonight only got a shot at one as my headlamp died,will check tomorrow.

Originally Posted by akaroa1

Someone should start up a post called "Operation Fluffy" and we can all post our wild cat kills on it as we get them.

Gotta be some keen pussy hunters out there an annual day should be made

Well you could make the national cat shooting day on a fourteenth .
Fourteen is Quatorze in French, it pronounces Cat-Whores. I ll let you decide of the month! :-)

Pussy post

The family pet won't feature below

Ive shot a 4 up in the Pohongina Valley over the years at a family friends. First one was when I was 16, thought it was a possum at the base of a tree when we were spotlighting. Eyes looked exactly the same as a possums in the light. Other 3 were infesting their shearing shed and really pissing off the farmer. He didn't really have the energy to deal with them himself so when I went up one Christmas I went on walks every couple of hours with old 10/22. Does the job. Popped off 3 and the rest buggered off but left one orphaned. The farmer ended up taking the thing in and raising it, it wouldn't let anybody other than him near it. I came back about 2 years later and it was more than happy to follow me around. We joked it remembered the smell of me and figured it better be nice to me or it might go the way of the others. Morbid? Yes but it was the best explanation we could come up with.

All joking aside they are vicious little devils, good luck if you are after them, cheers for doing the nation a favor!

Originally Posted by Boaraxa

Gotta be some keen pussy hunters out there an annual day should be made

I tried some pussy hunting tonight but alas it wasn't my annual day, she just scoffed, rolled over and went to sleep.

We saw one while tahr hunting right up the top of the rangitata (of all places) he was a wee way off but even then we could tell it was a pretty big cat, black too, when I first spotted it through my binos I literally got all excited and thought I had spotted the bloody canterbury panther! I think @sambnz has some video/photos of it?