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Camera IconBinnu farm manager Terry Gadean captured this unlikely pair sharing a meal together out the back last week. Mr Gadean said he put water out on his back veranda for about five bobtail lizards that would visit and the feral cat, which he’s named Bubba, came for it too.“I just call her Bubba, but sometimes when she doesn’t let me pat her I call her a little bugger,” he said. “It’s a feral cat, took me about eight weeks to get it to come up to me but I’ve got some bobtails around the house as well and it doesn’t seem to worry about them.“They drink the milk together and eat the cat munch together.”Mr Gadean said the photos were taken the second time he saw the animals eating together. “I sit on the back veranda in a chair in the afternoon to have a beer and the bobtail and cat started drinking the milk together,” he said.“They sort of share it, they don’t seem to worry about each other. “You’d think the cat would attack the bobtail but they seem to get along very well, I don’t know what it is. It’s marvellous.”He said he made sure Bubba had food, even when he wasn’t at home as the bobtails had left the cat without food or drink in the past.“I’ve got dispensers for the water and cat nuts and now I put them up on the table, otherwise the cat doesn’t have anything to eat when I’m away. But there have been no snakes on the veranda since the cat has been around,” he said. When Mr Gadean is not feeding his wild pets, he spends his days fixing fences, looking after 5000 sheep, and cropping wheat, barley, oats for hay, and lupins.

Unlikely mealtime companions also farmer’s wild pets

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A feral cat and bobtail goanna share a meal at Herra Placus Binnu farm.

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A feral cat and bobtail goanna share a meal at Herra Placus Binnu farm.

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A feral cat and bobtail goanna share a meal at Herra Placus Binnu farm.

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A feral cat and bobtail goanna share a meal at Herra Placus Binnu farm.