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Not a Saturday morning wrestling star, but rather this:
What do we think? ZOMG PANTHER or someone's fat tabby out for a midnight stroll?
(Also, worth a read if you ever wondered what bait is best to use to lure big cats...)
Me bredren!
That's the worst CCTV footage ever - looks like a hairy moggy at worst.
The evidence for the existence of the real Perchy Panther is of a more tangible nature.....
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/panther-watch-claw-found-greenhead-2570382.amp
We've seen it..on the way home from Preston to Chorley, in a taxi, after a few beers - but definitely a Panther!
WTF was a panther doing in a taxi and drinking beer?
WTF was a panther doing in a taxi and drinking beer?
Driving it
Definitely a cat but without any idea of scale in the video it just looks like a standard house cat.
From the article
"Equipped with camera and fish fingers"
I saw a photo session along these lines at Afan once, but that was an entirely different sort of hairy pu [stop right there - Mods]
Got chatting to a ranger once in the Chilterns ages ago. (like loads of other places the woods around Watlington used to have it's own big cat sightings). His opinion was that after the introduction of the dangerous pets act that banned people keeping certain types of big(ish) cats; many owners, rather than have them destroyed, released them into the wild. He reckoned that given the abundance of rabbits and sheep, a cat could probably keep itself going for a few years. He did think most of them had died off though.
That footprint in the paper isn't a big cat though.
These things are (or were) real. One local 'beast' was treated with the usual derision until it was run over and killed, and subsequently identified.
There's a puma in the Inverness museum that was wandering around the highlands about 20 years back.
See https://twitter.com/bdrongan?lang=en - - Preston is behind the times compared to Drongan.
That's an insult if ever i heard it
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Got chatting to a ranger once in the Chilterns ages ago
Whilst crap at it I do like animal tracking and done a couple of sessions with people who really are good at it.
One of them laughed at the idea of large cats being in the wild (although they did also comment that for a couple of years after the act there could be a chance but overall they didnt think it likely since be easier to hand it over at the time).
The other did comment on a one off rather odd kill site. That said since their mate admittedly to faking sign for big cats I tend towards them trying to wind us up and screwing up our nights sleep.
For the OP. Would need a human/something recognisable for scale. It is a bit clever than most sightings in that there is no context to apply. There was the one last year which ran into the slight flaw either it was a domestic cat or forget the big cat lets concentrate on the mutant massive magpies.
I used to camp out near the west midlands safari park. There a pride of lions in those woods!!
Told this story many times on here, but me and two other grown men heard a rather large growl very near to us on a night ride over Cannock chase about 12 years ago
It was Hora, his manly roar emanating as his primal brain struggled with Cannocks unrideable marbley surface.....
I've heard it's quite easy to see growlers around Cannock at night.