WA - Locals Tell of Big Cat Sightings

WA - Locals Tell of Big Cat Sightings
Every town seems to have a rumour about a local cougar or a puma that lives in the bush which lots of people have seen but never managed to catch.
The stories just will not go away and while there has not been a sighting in recent times, locals in Western Australia's wheatbelt have plenty of stories to tell about cougars.
Ian Huttson says he came very closing to catching one in the 1970s, when he found a big black cat, at least twice the size of a collie dog, in his chook pen.
"Silly enough... stupid actually... I went into the pen," he said.
"Of course I made sure I had both barrels full before I went in.
"And it made a leap for the top of the chook shed, so I let rip with the twelve-bar and dropped it stone dead.
"It's colour was black, it had fangs, it had a round head and its tail was nearly as long as its body.
"I took it into the bush where we'd been clearing and threw it on top of one of the heaps to burn.
"Anyway, I went back the next morning and the carcass had gone."
ABC Rural: 18th September 2007