Thread: So, how do ya go about trapping a black panther ?

No idea how to trap one but I see you on the news when you do My guess is that it would not be real easy.

There are plenty of stories over here about similar cats, old farmer I use to visit you to swear that he had seen on half a dozen times. There are reported instances of big cats being released from circuses into the wild over here during the depression.

Good luck mate.

Probably a HUMUNGOUS feral moggie - Yes they DO get that big. If its a 'tom' then a double cage trap - like they use for trapping Indian Mynahs. Smallish inner cage with female moggie who is 'receptive' with food & water, larger outer cage of weldmesh with spring loaded door & IR beam activator. Wait a week or two after large cage is built & installed for the human smell to reduce, then 'bait' with the Femme Fatale & wait. If nothing else, it should thin out the local population of stray toms & possibly some foxes.

If its a feral female, tough.

Bowl of milk with a dozen crushed panadol in it.

Aside from all the denials, I really can't believe one hasn't been caught yet. Maybe its like UFO's and Roswell, there's a conspiracy out there!

I know what a feral cat looks like and what I saw on a Gippsland track on the way to the Bogong high plain in 1986 definitely wasn't an average moggie gone bush!

Now I live in Queensland, I haven't seen a Yowie yet, but I have seen a humongous fox up at Springbrook.

Ta. panadol.

Originally Posted by bsrlee

Probably a HUMUNGOUS feral moggie - Yes they DO get that big. If its a 'tom' then a double cage trap - like they use for trapping Indian Mynahs. Smallish inner cage with female moggie who is 'receptive' with food & water, larger outer cage of weldmesh with spring loaded door & IR beam activator. Wait a week or two after large cage is built & installed for the human smell to reduce, then 'bait' with the Femme Fatale & wait. If nothing else, it should thin out the local population of stray toms & possibly some foxes.

If its a feral female, tough.

jeez, you know your stuff. .........IR beam activator ? you joking ?

I've heard of overgrown moggies before, but not ones as big as a panther ....

I'll make up a cage and see how we go. was thinking of just having the door activated by a lever at the bait. Thats how I caught a few ferrals in the past. Borrowed the Rangers cage, and afterwards just dropped the thing in a trough.

Originally Posted by Fuzzie

I know what a feral cat looks like and what I saw on a Gippsland track on the way to the Bogong high plain in 1986 definitely wasn't an average moggie gone bush!

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...what you see ? black ?

Feral cats get quite huge and have a different body shape to your average moggie gone bush, the shoulders are much larger for one example.

A farmer out South Western Qld used to pay us a 6-pack per feral we shot for him, and they always surprised on how big and mean they looked.

Originally Posted by apricotripper

...what you see ? black ?

Yes. Jet black. I think it was a larger body to head ratio that made it look different. We were on foot and saw it on the move loping out of forest and across open land about 250 metres away. It was clearly of significant size.

There was one huge "panther" shot in the 70's in Gippsland that turned out to be a large dog on inspection. Certainly feral cats get huge on native tucker and I've seen one monster moggie that was big by even feral standards. The story I remember most, again from the 70's, was a bloke who saw what he swears was a panther in the hills near Licola standing beside a stream at night lit by a full moon. His car had broken down and he was walking back to Licola with his girl friend. Now I don't know if it was really a panther but I am dead sure he did and it scared the daylights out of both of them.

Don't know what you'd trap them with but I'd want chain mail and a heap of tranquiliser for the cat if I did catch one. .303 would be one option but it interfers with the bring it in alive to get money objective.

Haven't seen a panther, but on one hunting trip near Licola in Vic High country saw cat paw prints in the snow that were the size of my outspread hand.

Packed up and went somewhere else.

This thing would have been huge.

Don't care if you think I'm a pussy, I don't hunt things that hunt back.

Don't hunt at all now, have other priorities

Just built my own trap a couple of weeks ago, wire cage with a trip door. results so far, two stray moggies that won't kill my wild life around here anymore. Allso a small Aussie raven which I let go cause he's part of the scene around here.

Paul

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

Bowl of milk with a dozen crushed panadol in it.

I was told by a birdkeeper to use aspro - if you want to get rid of the cat???
Maybe both???

Whatever you do keep us posted - any gap in communications will be taken as a win for the puss

Can I suggest very, very carefully

Bowl of milk with a dozen crushed panadol in it.

I like Cliffs idea but, according to our local paper...the "kenthurst panther" likes 17 years olds and live stock....so maybe you will have to stuff a cow full of panadol....or a spotty teenager