Grant Denyer explains his controversial Panther sighting!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Look, I wasn't a really serious journey, so they wouldn't
give me politics, ambulance chasing or anything of world importance.
I wasn't very smart. I get the lady whose horse
sleeps in her bed. But one day I found out
about this kid who claimed he was attacked by a
black cat in the western suburbs of Sydney, Balukham Hills somewhere,
and you know those leafy suburbs on the edge of

(00:21):
the forests. And I went out and saw this kid.
I saw how far apart the scrape marks were. I
saw the footprints in the dirt, and I was like,
you believed it?

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (00:31):
This kid said he was a big kid too. It
was nearly six foot. He said the cat was as
high as him when it stood up on attacking.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Sure it wasn't a furry, because that's everywhere nowadays.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Is that what you're identifying?

Speaker 3 (00:41):
No, do that on the sheets, that's me.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
M O. And then on my property one day, my
little farm in Bathurst. My wife saw it. First I
thought she was drunk, and then the next day I
saw it in my own eyes.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
And turns out you were both drunks.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
And like everyone else who's seen one. They've got some nice,
good blurry iPhone.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
I I know what it is is because I also
had sheep in that pando, so I had something to
scale it against size wise, and it was so much
bigger than a full grown you. And the way it
stepped over the fence, it was enormous. And then I fent.
I went down and there was some wombat burrows. Listened
to me, I'm going full nervous. Yeah, there's some wom
bat burrows down there, and had been dragging in some sheep.

(01:28):
Wombats there. They don't eat meat, so something had been
consuming the sheep in these in these burrows. And then
I saw the poor print and it was it was
as big as your footmte, wow, it.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Was it was a canter.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Okay, So where's it come from?

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Well?

Speaker 1 (01:42):
I think there's there's two reasons. They think that some
of the American troops there was that there was a
base in Penrith, hence the term Penrith Panther, you know,
after in World War two, and then it was disbanded.
And then once they kind of left that base, they'd
come from Africa prior to Penrith, and they sort of
taken some animals. They had them on the ships as pets,

(02:04):
and then they held them at the base and when
the kind of they wrapped up the war and everyone
went home, they kind of released them into.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
That is an old panther.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
That's an old panther which I think may have been
breeding with domesticated wildcats. And it's a hybrid thing.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Oh so it's like a mixer.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
Yeah. Okay, so now you've actually made it sound a
bit legit.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yeah,