It's arguably Australia's most enduring myth, and it reads something like one of Mike Burgess's annual threat assessments: I can't say what it is or when it happened. But somewhere, there's a giant black cat trying to eat all our sheep - thank you, no further questions.
Australia's panther (because, somehow, the stories only ever mention one) is one of those stories where everyone knows someone, who knows someone, who heard from a farmer once about a sheep carcass being found in a paddock, up a tree, or through a fence, and that's proof that the big cat is on the prowl again.
