The possum who lives here is carrying a little one in the her pouch at the moment.
When she walks, she waddles, and on the one occasion I've seen her run, it was with a loping gait similar to the beast in the video.
Going out on a limb, completely... This is pure conjecture, given that a possum is the size of a house cat, and a thylacine is the size of big dog, "But they're both marsupials..." it could be that the beast in the video is female thylacine with a young one in her pouch, moving at a decent speed...
The young are carried in a pouch, set in the lower abdomen, and that affects the way the legs work because the young one presses against the pelvis and the hip joints.
Or it could be a dog with a sore foot...
It's a wild guess, based on similarity, but that's like saying an oak tree and a cherry tree are the same because they both lose their leaves in Winter.
It's a "maybe" scenario.
But wouldn't it be great if it was a female with a young one...?
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