ordnance Posted August 11, 2013 Report Share Posted August 11, 2013 I think there are this one was caught last week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy.plinker Posted August 11, 2013 Report Share Posted August 11, 2013 ^^^^^^^ That is gross! the only time that cat would be wild is if you took its food away!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keg Posted August 11, 2013 Report Share Posted August 11, 2013 I think there are this one was caught last week. Not hard really couldn't run far by the look of it... After what I saw last night walking the dog there is at least on big pussy roaming the countryside...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VikingRebel Posted August 11, 2013 Report Share Posted August 11, 2013 Our old neighbour swore blind she saw a tiger in the woods behind our houses. She was absolutely insane though, she used to weed her garden at night with a lantern ("They don't grow back if you pull them up at night, you know", she used to say) and she was also convinced that one of her house plants was possessed by a demon and would sometimes whisper to her. :blink: I do think it is possible there are big cats out there, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reeceknight Posted August 11, 2013 Report Share Posted August 11, 2013 These are the big genetically bread house cats look like smaller tigers or leopards, if I saw this in my garden or woods I'd pop myself lol http://www.cracked.com/article_19945_the-5-coolest-pets-humanity-has-bred-into-existence.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark@mbb Posted August 11, 2013 Report Share Posted August 11, 2013 There are foxhound packs all over the country and none Off them have ever put up or treeed a cougar Mountain lion puma or any species of big cat All this talk is Donads there are none there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reeceknight Posted August 11, 2013 Report Share Posted August 11, 2013 Called and ashera cat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunman Posted August 11, 2013 Report Share Posted August 11, 2013 About10 years back driving down the A1 in Durham mid evening , I saw a large dark/black animal crossing the dual carriageway on a farm foot bridge . Blunt muzzle sloped back and long tail . It was not a dog , that's all I can say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the pigeon man Posted August 11, 2013 Report Share Posted August 11, 2013 Yes seen a few seen one and a young one in pilling and one in Cumbria lynx are they called Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaedra1106 Posted August 11, 2013 Report Share Posted August 11, 2013 (edited) What you really want is a Maine Coon Cat (I know I do!) Just saw there's one not too far from me . . . . http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/blyth-big-cat-lioncubb-proves-1464443 Edited August 11, 2013 by phaedra1106 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted August 11, 2013 Report Share Posted August 11, 2013 I do not think that the gentleman in the video is a nutter at all. He is very level. It would be good to find absolute proof of the existance of big cats but it does seem a long time in coming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schern Posted August 11, 2013 Report Share Posted August 11, 2013 The other question is why are what people see always black? I don't think black panthers are that common. Why don't people see spotted big cats? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobt Posted August 11, 2013 Report Share Posted August 11, 2013 the two I saw were black, a few locals have seen a big black cat, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ack-ack Posted August 11, 2013 Report Share Posted August 11, 2013 Our old neighbour swore blind she saw a tiger in the woods behind our houses. She was absolutely insane though, she used to weed her garden at night with a lantern ("They don't grow back if you pull them up at night, you know", she used to say) and she was also convinced that one of her house plants was possessed by a demon and would sometimes whisper to her. :blink: I do think it is possible there are big cats out there, though. She's not that bonkers on the weeding front, night time cultivations result in less photoreactive weed seed breaking dormancy. As for the talking plants well, my cheese plant keeps telling me to have another beer and the yucca just talks utter utter filth. I can see why mum didn't want it now. It always seems to give it the big one when i've got guests round also, like when it dropped the c-bomb when the vicar was round. He had the good grace to pretend he didn't hear it thankfully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-G Posted August 11, 2013 Report Share Posted August 11, 2013 I ran quite a thread on here a few years ago now - can't get back that far on the forum, here's pics of a paw print I went back to photograph the next morning. T'was a big black one seen legging it across the road coming away from Nosely Hall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamanthaDebra Posted August 12, 2013 Report Share Posted August 12, 2013 dog prints? I'm not saying your wrong, just could also be paw prints of a dog? I do think there is a chance that there could be big cats out there, lots were released when they were kept as pets apparently? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimblowscash Posted August 12, 2013 Report Share Posted August 12, 2013 I can't claim to have seen one but I saw something lol, I know plenty of people who have claimed to have seen them, they've even produced plaster casts of prints, droppings and in one case hair from a fox snare that had been snapped like it wasn't there... There's supposedly a few of them on the north downs in Kent and whilst I haven't seen one well enough to say " yes it's a large black cat " I did see something one night whilst out lamping that wasn't native, the same week a local farmer had several sheep mutilated on a hillside. I too find it odd that no one has shot one or produced any conclusive evidence but in overt 25 years of shooting , lamping and falconry I've not come across anything to 100% convince me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aris Posted August 12, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2013 If you have droppings or hair, a simple DNA test would confirm. I'm sure defra would love to test it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bakerboy Posted August 12, 2013 Report Share Posted August 12, 2013 Yes large cats roam the countryside and that's what they are "large cats" not "Big Cats". I believe they use the same camo gear as Ghosts, which are also seen by many but can never get a decent photograph or any other substantiated proof Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crosshair Posted August 12, 2013 Report Share Posted August 12, 2013 They have been seen too many times in my area by myself and reliable witnesses to be discredited. The question I asked a well known fox hunting man, why haven't the hounds ever risen one. He said that one day they were hunting dense forestry and the hounds were in the thick cover hunting, the riders and followers were waiting on the edge of the wood, when one pointed to the top of a forty foot Spruce. And there at the top and partly hidden was a big black cat. I think he said this was in Devon, but the same would apply in the dense forested area of South Wales or anywhere else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasper3 Posted August 13, 2013 Report Share Posted August 13, 2013 http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/Exclusive-Experts-DNA-proof-big-cats-living/story-13169998-detail/story.html#axzz2bq17YBoj Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry d Posted August 13, 2013 Report Share Posted August 13, 2013 (edited) http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/Exclusive-Experts-DNA-proof-big-cats-living/story-13169998-detail/story.html#axzz2bq17YBoj However the same site gives these... http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/big-cats-wild-say-experts/story-11756651-detail/story.html#axzz2bqIY6IMO http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/BIG-CATS-DON-T-EXIST-8211-OFFICIAL/story-11482671-detail/story.html#axzz2bqIY6IMO ...so who are we gonna believe? Edited August 13, 2013 by henry d Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aris Posted August 13, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2013 Replace 'big-cat' with 'UFO', and replace 'westcountry' with 'roswell' and you might get your answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crosshair Posted August 13, 2013 Report Share Posted August 13, 2013 Why is it that people who don't know the answers to the questions revert to asking Mr Google. The answers are usually given by armchair journalists who spend a couple of weeks looking for the big cats, then decide they are afraid of the dark, so their conclusion is they don't exist. For the non believers, if you are told by some of my local farmers that they have seen them, then you had better believe them, and don't make them out to be liars, unless you already have false teeth. Remember you can find conflicting answers on Google, and if asking for an answer on there is your only experience with the countryside, you want to get out more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al4x Posted August 13, 2013 Report Share Posted August 13, 2013 what we are saying crosshair is to do with facts and optical illusions. Remember the lion spotted not long ago in Essex, or countless other black cats never to be seen again. we had one seen from our local but I know for a fact that was a normal moggie but in low light and with an iffy perception of distance a few people swore it was a big cat. The facts its going on 35 years or so since licences got brought in with regard to keeping big cats privately, big cats live 10-12 years so we are going on for 3 generations on from there thats before you work out how many species of big cats have been seen so we have numerous breeding populations of large cat and no bodies turn up. No hunts or shoots credibly catch one and no one shoots one out lamping........ its getting more and more unlikely they exist. Thats before you suggest that they don't just have one young each year when they breed so we should be over run with them and erm we aren't Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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