· Native cats are small, furry marsupials that live in the forests of Australia and Tasmania	Click here for Native Cat photos!
	· There are four species of native cats: the chuditch, the quoll, the satanellus, and the tiger cat
	· All have brown or black fur with white spots
	· They may weigh more than 4 pounds
	· Native cats eat insects but also feed on birds, mice, and small lizards

· The female native cat normally has five to eight young, which attach themselves firmly to teats within a pouch on her abdomen. The young stay in the pouch for the first seven weeks. The tiger cat is a endangered species

· The chuditch (also known as the Western Quoll) is Western Australia's largest carnivorous marsupial

· It feeds mostly on ground-dwelling insects and other invertebrates but will also eat small lizards, birds and mammals

· Its pattern of spots helps to break up its outline in the moonlight

· It's nocturnal - during daytime, it sleeps in a burrow or hollow log

· The quoll is a spectacular example of a large carnivorous marsupial that has declined in numbers whenever it has encountered humans
· The tiger cat, the largest meat-eating marsupial on Australia, grows up to 4 feet long, including tail
· The tiger cat is the second largest of the world's surviving carnivorous marsupials
· Tiger cats live in the forests, woodlands and rainforests of Australia and Tasmania, where there is dense underbrush
· They can be seen searching for food on the beach and occasionally basking in the sun during the day
· Tiger cats shelter in hollow logs, tree limbs, rock crevices and also burrows
· The tiger cat eats insects, birds, mice, small reptiles, bandicoots, possums, rats, flying foxes, rabbits, and also fish