Tiger Cat

Dasyure the tiger cat was a handsome youngster: brown body and tail spotted over in white he lived quietly with his mother and sister in a secluded hollow log.This is the story of the young tiger cats coming-of-age: of his first groping steps towards manhood after his mothers death and how he learned to fend for himself in an unkind uncaring world. Like many human beings Dasyure was a shy fellow. In his habits he resembled a burglar coming out to work only when night closed over the bush.However unlike the burglar he was both brave and bold; would take on a creature whom he had no chance of beating so pugnacious was his nature. In the story Dasyure is both hero and villain but as the author says: You must have a kindly feeling towards him as a fellow-Australian. Tiger Cats Native Cats and the rest of the Dasyuri­dae family do a great deal of useful work in keeping down vermin from mice to rabbits.And like every good Australian Das­yure is entitled to a fair go--as is every one of the very wonderful and useful native animals in this great land of ours.