Saturday, Oct 29, 2005 at 17:39
Just had a look at quolls - wrong shape, what I saw had a tail that looked quite smooth as if it was covered in short body hair (kind of like a whippet). Given I grew up with a feral catskin as a floor rug (102cm nose to tail!), I can certainly vouch to the fact it wasn't a feral cat ;-) Definitely had something in it's mouth - dead bird, or maybe a
young rabbit.
No stripes, but it was nowhere near the size of an adult thylacine, which is why I asked if
young thylacines had stripes - all of the images I can find on Google are either adults or joeys in jars. The sighting was enough to make me pull over to the protest of passengers and do a U-turn for a second look, but it was long gone. Car coming the other way almost cleaned it up.
I wouldn't discount the possibility it was one - Wollemi Pines were only known from the fossil record, then they were found growing only a couple of hours from
Sydney in 1994!
In all honesty it was most likely some farm mutt, but it was the weirdest looking dog I've ever seen if it was.
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