Thylacines in California??

[Ian Thomas]

Not sure what to make of it. Critter seems too slinky and gracile for a dog.

Ideas?

Potential Tasmanian Tiger Recorded in California Backyard.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/potential-tasmanian-tiger-recorded-in-california-backyard/ar-AA1cEkg6

We all know thylacines are probably extinct but even if a few managed to somehow secretly survive in the wild they probably wouldn’t have made it from Australia all the way to California - but a backyard security camera shows a potentially very different story.

[jorgs01]

The way it walks on tippy-toes on the back feet suggest a variety of canid. From video's of thylacines I have seen the back feet were almost flat on the ground. The tail is a problem though, to me it is even too long for a thylacine. There are reports of a cryptid in southern parts of the USA that have an almost hairless blue-ish skin and walk strangely. They are reported to be a type of canid.

[Ian Thomas]

Good catch, Jorgs 👍

Marsupials are pretty much all plantigrade, afaik ..
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantigrade

[johannes]

Looks a bit like a fossa, but then, most mammalian - or even non-mammalian therapsid - mesopredators do so and have done so for the last 200 million years...

Are their privately kept fossas in the US? Not totally impossible, but rather unlikely www.exoticanimalsforsale.net/articles/40-can-fossas-be-pets