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Big cat reports from Australia continue, and got a little stranger with a report of the shooting of a large black cat in 2005. The cat killed in 2005 weighed 40 kilograms, or about 120 pounds. The strangest thing though, is that DNA testing revealed this large cat was a feral descendant of domestic species. Michael Williams of the Centre for Fortean Zoology Australia says, "We don't know if the source of these reports is some kind of introduced exotic cat species or a feral cat mutation." A 120-pound house cat? With photo. And out of place big cats are making headlines in England, too, as explained by Nick Redfern in Cemetery Cats.