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You can certainly see that in the classifieds of the day," Dr Waldron said. These circuses were travelling menageries. Another well-known theory is that today's cats might be descendants of abandoned mascots from World War II American soldiers.

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Hazelbrook resident and author of Australian Big Cats, Mike Williams, believes the source is a modern one. And breeding leopards — to explain some of the [multiple] sightings.

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You go out and you buy a little cub and it grows to the point it will take you out. How can you keep it? I have a signed affidavit from a JP stating he interviewed a person [who owned a big cat] and he was told to have them put down. And that is locally here in the Hawkesbury. And it's the same time we started to get the problems. Sightings became so commonplace that fellow residents Ken Pullen and Karen Nolan began a database of sightings with Mrs Coffey in charge of interviewing witnesses.

I have National Parks rangers on the database. We are talking doctors, solicitors, police detectives — really, really credible people. Why would they all lie? But the compelling eye witness accounts detailed on the database, which include government staff members, meant liability could shortly become an issue. The Department of Primary Industries commissioned four enquiries during the years , , and Do you know anything about panthers? They were worried something might happen and because they hadn't taken it seriously that someone might take them to court.

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It proved to be really quite staggering to be quite honest. In , a second official report from the Department of Primary Industries was issued, which concluded:. Discrepancies between a report written, but not publicly released, in December and a report subsequently made available to the public in March concerned local resident campaigners.

A fourth and final report in commissioned by then-Minister for Primary Industries Katrina Hodgkinson and written by New Zealand-based invasive species expert John Parkes shut the door firmly on the matter. Barbara Triggs was the scientist employed by the DPI to perform comparison analysis on hair and scat, or faecal, samples provided by The Grose Vale Group for the , and reports. Mrs Triggs is an authority on the identification of mammals from 'indirect means' such as tracks and scats and wrote a Whitely Award-winning field guide on the subject in After all this time, you'd think someone would have a photo but they haven't.

Mike Williams and Chris Coffey believe the test methods used were not equipped to cover exotic species.

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And the only body on the table is a lioness shot outside Broken Hill in A lack of hard evidence, coupled with an abundance of soft evidence, lends an uncanny halo to the Lithgow panther saga. Who would I report this to? I didn't feel the need to expose myself to more ridicule," he said. It obviously shows there's something to it," Dr Bauer said. I mean, if you were in Broken Hill in and you say you saw a big cat, chances are you did see a big cat. Dr Parkes, author of the report which apparently closed the case emphatically, actually remains open to the possibility.

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So it is possible escapees did occur in Australia and possible that they bred and we have a small cryptic population in the bush," he said. It is conceivable the government are playing down various findings, thwarted by the fact the presence of big cats cannot be empathically disproven. She has always wondered about the Lithgow panther after a local radio station used to have a tongue-in-cheek panther sightings segment.

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