A woman who stole a wombat proudly shows off her new Australian animal prize after leaving the country in disgrace, with a surprising twist.

Wombat snatcher Sam Strable has sparked fresh controversy by posing with more captured native Aussie wildlife. 

The latest photos come a month after Strable sparked global condemnation when she posted a video of herself snatching a baby wombat from its mother.

The distressed creature, a wombat, followed her persistently while Strable, with the help of her boyfriend Louie Sixt, tried to capture the distressing moment on camera.

The massive backlash saw her flee the country in shame as the Australian government prepared to cancel her visa and kick her out.

Strable’s latest post on Instagram showed her beaming proudly after hooking a critically endangered Murray Cod which she held up for the camera.

It immediately triggered fears she had sneaked back into Australia – but it appears she is now just trying to troll the entire nation.

According to reports from Daily Mail Australia, Strable has not returned to the country since the wombat incident, and immigration sources state that she is still overseas.

Initially facing deportation after the wombat incident, Strable retaliated by accusing Australia of double standards, falsely alleging that farmers in the country often kill native wildlife to safeguard their livestock.

Wombat snatcher Samantha Jo Strable sparked new fury after she posted a picture of herself after hooking a Murray Cod, which is a critically endangered fish (above)

Sam Strable posted a video of herself snatching a baby wombat from its mother which chased her across a road as Strable brandished the distressed, hissing joey

Sam Strable in her hunting gear with a rifle and a dead wallaby 

At that time Federal Immigration Minister Tony Burke told Daily Mail Australia he ‘couldn’t wait’ for Australia to be rid of Strable. 

He said his department was ‘working through the conditions on her current visa and determining whether immigration law has been breached’.

‘Either way, given the level of scrutiny that will happen if she ever applies for a visa again, I’ll be surprised if she even bothers,’ he added.

‘I can’t wait for Australia to see the back of this individual, I don’t expect she will return.’

In the new photos posted with the fish, Strable was pictured in a boat on a waterway with angling gear at her feet, and a fishing line extending from the cod’s mouth as she held it up and smiled in the sunshine.

Next to the photos she added the caption: ‘Absolutely love the pattern on these beautiful native fish.’

One poster wrote ‘welcome back’, to which another responded ‘she’s not welcome back’, while another added: ‘Surprised she didn’t just try to shoot it.’ 

She has previously posed with a deadly puffer fish, a stingray, sharks and reef fish. 

She loves a dead marine creature: Sam Strable with a stingray on an unnamed beach

According to her Instagram posts, Strable has been travelling through Thailand where she posed in front Bangkok’s Temple of Dawn, and also with Thai wildlife.

On April 1, she posted a video of herself wrestling a massive Chinese carp, with the comment and a laughing emoji: ‘When the fish fights back. 

‘What’s bound to happen when you catch a Siamese carp bigger than yourself.’

Instagram followers have traced her latest adventures, adding comments to Strable’s Murray Cod catch, ‘Good fighters?’ and ‘They go for a few good runs but mostly like fighting a wet towel lol’.

On one of her Bangkok photos in which she is wearing traditional Thai dress, another added: ‘I hope you will find a way through this hard time. 

‘It wasn’t your mistake, but they treated you unfairly’. 

Strable, also known as Sam Jones, calls herself an ‘outdoor enthusiast and hunter’, but fled Australia after she claimed to have received thousands of death threats.

The huge backlash included PM Anthony Albanese challenging Strable to ‘take a baby crocodile from its mother and see how you go there’.

A since deleted video of sam Strable with another native animal, an echidna, which also caused some controversy

Strable visited an elephant sanctuary in Thailand where she has been staying after fleeing Australia in the wake of death threats following her video of snatching a baby wombat

In her own defence, Strable posted on Instagram that she ‘was trying to get the animals safely off the road’. 

She said the video was ‘not staged, nor was it done for entertainment’ and in her excitement she ‘acted too quickly and failed to provide necessary context to viewers online’.

However, when Strable’s career as a hunter in the US and countries like New Zealand emerged, with multiple photos of her posing with dead animals and firearms, she came out swinging.

In a fiery three-part rant posted on her Instagram page, she claimed the reaction to her divisive video had been hypocritical given ‘the Australian government allows and permits the slaughter of wombats’. 

‘Thousands each year are shot, poisoned to suffer, and trapped legally,’ she falsely claimed.

‘Landowners rip up wombat burrows with heavy machinery, poison them with fumigation, and shoot them whenever they can. 

‘Quietly, of course, so as not to face the wrath that has come upon me.’ 

The Montana-based ranch hand jetted off to south-east Asia to regroup in the wake of the wombat row.

Strable and her sheep shearer boyfriend Louie Sixt with the bloodied heads of killed animals

Strable poses with wildlife she had shot

Her sheep shearer boyfriend Louie Sixt is based in Cooma, where she is believed to have been living at the time of the wombat incident.

The Murrumbidgee River near Cooma is also an area known for stocked populations of Murray Cod which may be where she caught the fish pictured on her last visit.

Under the guidelines of the NSW Department of Primary Industries there is a daily bag limit of two Murray Cod per person, and a total possession limit of four when fishing in any inland waters. 

Fishers are required to release Murray Cod which are smaller than 55cm, or bigger than 75cm, with the least possible harm. 

Strable and Sixt are understood to have met through a Facebook group for hunting enthusiasts before things turned romantic.

In one post after killing a massive deer, she wrote: ‘Australia is full of epic, wild deer and harvesting this beautiful stag marks my third deer species.’ 

However, although deer run wild in Australia, they are introduced animals. 

In an email to Daily Mail Australia, Strable turned on those who kill deer and wild pigs – which are not native animals – and kangaroos, which are allowed to be culled under licence.

Under the National Code of Practice for the Humane Shooting of Kangaroos and Wallabies for Non-Commercial Purposes, land owners may kill kangaroos or wallabies to mitigate damage or for public safety purposes.

In the email, Strable questioned ‘the hypocrisy of government officials in making an example of me instead of addressing major political issues and the slaughter of native animals in Australia’

She said she had ‘worked to get some never before seen photos of legally-slaughtered animals with government tags on them. 

‘The animals are stacked up by the dozens on cull trucks with their heads chopped off of kangaroos, pigs, and deer, and are recent. These photos exist nowhere else online and are horrific, but honest.’

Ms Strable also wanted to discuss ‘the burning questions on if I fled the country out of fear, was asked to leave, or if I returned to the US.

‘How media outrage culture turns an error in judgment into a national scandal while bigger issues go ignored.

‘My apology and taking full responsibility for the incident as well as my incredible stupidity therein while refusing to be their scapegoat.’

Daily Mail Australia has contacted Samantha Strable for further comment.