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Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 3:21 pm Post Subject: Big Black Cat sighting in the Ashburton area - 4th Aug 2006
A Rangiora reader submitted this eye-witness account on the 5th of August 2006:
"Yesterday 4/8/06 at around lunch time my wife and I both saw what was a very very large jet black cat. We were on the lookout on the north side of the Ashburton river mouth at a place called Haketere I think. We looked down onto the river flat and saw the cat. I have seen large feral cats before and it was nothing like them. For a start it was standing clear of the long grass/weeds it was standing in so must have been quite tall. Even a very large cat would have been partially hidden by the weed, whereas this I could see underneath its belly. I was no more than 30m from the animal and I estimate it was a similar size to my Golden Lab/Mastif cross with a very long tail.
Once it got wind of us it was gone up river very smartly.
Before I was sceptical, but seeing something with your own eyes is very definite. The stories ARE true, I have seen it."
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 6:02 pm Post Subject: Big Cat
Hi there - re the whole big cat thing...
In the late 80's or early 90's - such a fair while ago - a bunch
of us were shooting hares and rabbits in the Rakaia River well below
the main south highway bridge.Anyway my friend saw a huge tawny coloured cat that he estimated was a least 1 metre long in the body - ( not including the tail). He had a crack at it and completely missed.
We all of course gave him the rubber duck award for missing
his what we called a 'mountain lion'.
He is emphatic that it was bigger than any cat he had ever seen -
and the colour was exactly like an American mountain lion.
