Mystery big cat sighted in NZ high country

Inland Kaikoura Road A large mystery cat was spotted, photographed and filmed by myself and Bradley Ambrose during the big snowstorm August 2011
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• panther
• couger
• bobcat
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• lion
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• Geoff
• Mackley

[danbuck333]

geoff did you measure how far apart the foot prints where?

[geoffmackley]

@danbuck333 The footprints were 30cm apart

[MsPlanky]

Fake its not a large cat that is just a normal house cat

[kiwimum01]

at 0:26 seconds you can see it in FRONT of the reflector.

[theslothman666]

yep just another big domestic/feral. Ive seen a heap of big ferals where they can get a good regular feed. Ive shot them Upto 12kgs within 10klms from farms where they can pinch dog food aswell as hunt possums,mice and rabbits. They certainly do look out of the ordinary.

Nice footage though.

[gr3g0snz]

that "cat" is a good 8-900mm long from nose to rump, compare not the direct height because of the angle, but the length of the "cat" with the length of the road marker

[DistinctiveBlend]

@kiwimum01

If you watch carefully you'll find that the reflector is one of those extra big reflectors that Geoff placed there earlier in a clever poly to throw people like yourself off. Obviously this was a *very* large cat otherwise it wouldn't be on the news.

[townsefinl]

I could quote mysterious planet for days

[lazygardens]

@geoffmackley I have a 17-lb cat (long-legged but domestic) with a walking stride that long, measured from footprint to next print of the same paw. If he were moving quickly like the cat you filmed it would be even longer.

You have some things you could measure to get an estimate: How big is the rock at 0:07, or the boxy thing to the right of the rock? At 0:26 where the animal is in front of the post ... how high is that post?

[wherezmybailout]

That's not a fxxxng cat...haha! Well, for a cat it certainly has balls to go walking out in the snow.

[kiwimum01]

How can you even possibly say that when there is a roadside reflector RIGHT next to the cat, watch the video you tool, unless those reflectors are 3 metres high, which they most certainly aren't, you are wrong and you fail at life too.

[Killotrix]

its a huge cat u fat fucken fucked up fucken fuckwit

[kiwimum01]

@awsumnessfeelsgr8 No, he said it was over a kilometre away, so you fail, and are you really going to ignore the roadside reflector right next to the cat and just see it's size for yourself? It's a tiny, normal cat. This is a poor attempt by a failing film maker to make the news. You fail. Quit your day job.