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spillo
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posted 27-03-2005 08:26     Click Here to See the Profile for spillo   Click Here to Email spillo     Edit/Delete Message
In a Dutch website: http://home.hccnet.nl/w.linde I read that thylacines were not aggressive and a family in the twenties kept one of them as watch-dog.Does anybody know if some thylacines were domestic? That Dutch website seems serious, but doesn't explain exactly who was that family or where they lived. I have never read before that these animals lived together with people.Do you have more information about it?

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jtom
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posted 11-12-2005 11:10     Click Here to See the Profile for jtom   Click Here to Email jtom     Edit/Delete Message
I doubt thylacines were domestic, however I would not be suprised if someone did have one as a pet. You have to remember in the 20's there was a bounty placed on thylacines so I would assume more people would kill them instead of keeping them as a pet. However, if you raise any animal from the beginning of its life, you can usually tame it. I want to stress that if they did keep it as a pet it wouldnt have acted exactly as a dog or cat because it has a wild instinct.

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Fredriksam
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posted 03-11-2006 21:11     Click Here to See the Profile for Fredriksam   Click Here to Email Fredriksam     Edit/Delete Message
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?

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