Hmm. I heard by a friend that there was someone in the Gippsland region that have had a tassie tiger as a pet. This person had found the tiger as a young. It had fell out of the pouch and couldnt get back or something.

He took the animal home and fed it and it stayed at his place as a "pet" This person also made a LP record and its said you actually hear the tassie do its "couch bark" in one song.

The person was very alone, had no TV, telephone or newspaper, because he hated being with people. He lived for the animals, helping alot of kangaroos also. It was a close friend to him that made the LP aviable and sold.

This was supposed to happen in the middle of the 80īs. (1984-86)

Notice: I dont know how true this story are. I heard it last year by an old man, when we were visiting someone that lives in this area.

Has anyone else also heard of this?

Common wisdom says the thylacine hasn't existed on the mainland (ie Victoria / Gippsland) for several hundred-to-thousand years.

Also, even in Tasmania, the last known captive died in 1936, so it would be most unusual if someone found a thylacine on mainland Australia in the 1980s and kept it as a pet.

To be sure, thylacines *were* kept as pets prior to extinction, and from accounts they made good ones.

I would also find it strange that a loner in the bush would have the means to create an LP record.

Still, truth is stranger than fiction, as they say. I would be most interested to hear more if anyone has additional details.

Cheers,