Another Big Cat Sighting

Another Big Cat Sighting
A WOMAN believes a big cat chased and spooked her horses into a frenzy in a paddock near Bannockburn.
The woman told yesterday of having watching the ordeal in bright moonlight at 2am six weeks ago and said her horses ``went nuts''.
She spoke out after having read Geelong Advertiser stories about a Geelong district horse foal kill.
The woman said she was woken by her barking dogs, went outside to check the horses and saw the cat in action.
``It was black and moved like a leopard and all of that,'' the woman said.
``The horses were just going nuts. They're both usually pretty quiet, but it scared them.
The woman, who wished to remain anonymous, believes the cat could have easily taken a foal and a mare would have been too scared to intervene.
The woman said she and her partner had seen two big cats run away across a paddock a couple of kilometres away in broad daylight about a year ago.
An independent researcher suspects two big cats might have stripped up to 40 kilograms of meat and organs from a foal killed in a paddock near Geelong.
The owners of the foal were horrified to discover the bones in a paddock on grass clean of blood eight hours after they had checked the foal and found it suckling and running.
The find dramatically sharpened belief that elusive big cats are alive and feeding on bush fringes.
Geelong Advertiser: 19th September 2007