I went there yesterday and here are some of the photos I took

http://www.internetezy.com.au/%7Emj129/blackpanther_june_2002.html

G-Day Greg

Greg, what colour eyes do black panthers have, and what colour eyes do domestic household cats have ?

10.000 hits ! not bad !

Regards

Scott

Hi Scott, thats 10,000 on the mainpage only, its almost 90,000 all up on the entire site S

Well it depends, these days the domestic cat is inter-bred so much to form other types of cats, and they breed bengal kittens now, with bengal tiger stripes etc..

Scott-This will show you the bengal cat http://www.bengalspot.com/mycolorspage.htm

As you can se a domestics can be greyish, or green or yellow, most any colour really.

But...a Melanistic Black Panther which is very rare in the wild has an almost whitish yellow, almost a lime green, which when lit directly turns almost whitish.



This picture shows Isaac, which I was aloud to use on Rexs site in the Lithgow part from last year to compare Isaac and the Lithgow cat in size.



The Above is from a friends site.

You may want to call these cats black panthers, but there's really no such animal. "Panther" is a generic work used to describe many large cats, especially black ones, but also Florida panthers which are just a subspecies of cougar.

We have both black leopards and black jaguars here - they're often born in the same litter as the normal colored cats, because the black color, called melanism, is due to a recessive gene. So, melanistic cubs can be born to two spotted parents. The cats are actually dark brown, with the same pattern of black spots as any other leopard. There are no solid black big cats.

http://www.cathouse-fcc.org/blackleopard.html

The above site is linked on Rexs mainpage, when we first investigated the Lithgow Cat I was already friends with these people in Florida and they helped me with identifying the Lithgow cat through their breeding programs.

Also another long time friend I met in 89 while working in the US breeeds them also and helsps me with cat sightings here all the time..

the black panther is so beautiful

Thats 13,000 hits on the mainpage since June 2002.

Ive been trying to finish this new site then Rex's New Yowie site, nothing else but the Yowie.

You will be able to find it Scott in the near future at:
www.theaustralianyowieresearchcenter.com or

www.THEAUSTRALIANYOWIERESEARCHCENTER.COM EITHER ONE

This new site wil hold no punches back, its a in your face site.

Rexs new Cryptozoology site will be more updated from this site.

Also Im making a Anthropology and Archaeological site for Rex with headings like: "Australia the birthplace of mankind". "What science doesn't want you to see" etc...

This is from David Pepper the Asian Cat keeper at Torogna Park Zoo, after I sent him one of the better prints.

After last year's Lithgow Videotape by that couple, I took some of the prints Rex and I found down to him and we have kept in contact ever since.

Greg,

I have had a look at the print. Without my diagnostic tools which are at work I can not give an answer. Looks like a carnivore foot print. I have seen the odd digits to one side before and this worries a me a little, This is not a fore paw print of a Kangaroo by any chance?

Most probably not, but without actually seeing it, I cannot dismiss the possibility.

Please keep me up to date with your findings.

Thanks David

David is worried of the digits to one side as it shows a large cat not the feral cat thought of in last year's case, also as I have said before, this new sightings and prints are different to last years ones.

Rex has plster casts of what this type of cat could be, from his 1999 excursion to Lithgow.

David showed me the "Asian Golden Cat" which is similar in height and length to the Videotaped cat last year which I will be scanning from photos I took from the zoo to show the similarities if not exact dimensions.

Id do it right now but I have to reboot to turn on my scanner, so next message

G-Day Greg

90.000 hits now I'm really impressed.

When I was in the Barringtons last year I came accross an black animal laying in the sun on the 4wd track. At first It appeared to be dead. I approached it and took several photo's, I then approached even closer to a point where, if the animal was alive and ran off I would be able to get better photo's of it. I needed to get a picture of it's face and it wasn't moving so I got even closer and kicked stones and stomped my foot on the ground to get it's attention and finally it looked around at me and then skampered into the bush. I did manage take a number of photo's of it's face and then realised it was a cat, so what, I thought, until I got the photo's developed and discovered that the cat had yellow eyes.

The look of the cat had me thinking, where have I seen this animal before ? ..........then I realised that it was on a poster in a documentry on big cats in the Grampians Vic: with Pepper Edwards, Irene Addinsall, Goeff Woess and many others.

Not being an expert on the colour of domestic cats eyes, I asked a number of " experts " where I work and all but 1 didn't mention " YELLOW " One bloke said to another, as they looked at the photo's " That's a big cat " I couldnt help it, but smile and let him down gently by informing him that the cat is the size of your average domestic house cat.

If it was 900 ml at the shoulder I would have spent a lot more philm on it and approached even closer.

Those Yellow eyes really had my attention.

Greg, if you like I could e-mail the photos to you, I don't think it's a Panther, Just different.


Regards

Scott

Sure Scott send it sounds interesting.

Big cats have different mechanisms for there eyes in different conditions.So that in turn would cause different eye colours.

Small domestic cats or feral cats same thing.

Youve seen a cats eyes at night in light, they look completely white or sometimes reddish, or even yellow in the right conditions.