mackem 23,782 Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 7 minutes ago, blackmaggie said: Sorry greyman it turned out to be a false alarm a fecking stuff teddy but it looked the part That actually looks a lot more realistic than many of the pics that crop up in the papers from time to time. 5 Link to post Share on other sites
BGD 6,385 Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 They had armed police and the helicopter out when one of those big stuffed tigers was spotted in a field a while back 2 Link to post Share on other sites
ChrisJones 7,973 Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 On 1/16/2018 at 11:54, scothunter said: Wait a minute guys were not talking about taking pics of every f***ing step you take!. Agreed mate but if checking fox traps is part of your daily routine for the last 10 years what are the odds that you're carrying a camera in case you need to document something other than a fox? I totally agree that credible evidence is lacking, at least in the public arena, but carrying recording gear isn't practical for the average bloke and the ones that do carry it document exotic wildlife are immediately viewed with suspicion. It's kind of a damned if you do, damned if you don't deal. Link to post Share on other sites
EDDIE B 3,120 Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 6 hours ago, ChrisJones said: Agreed mate but if checking fox traps is part of your daily routine for the last 10 years what are the odds that you're carrying a camera in case you need to document something other than a fox? I totally agree that credible evidence is lacking, at least in the public arena, but carrying recording gear isn't practical for the average bloke and the ones that do carry it document exotic wildlife are immediately viewed with suspicion. It's kind of a damned if you do, damned if you don't deal. Eh, do 99% of the population not carry phones these days. And 99% of those phones will have cameras on them. Link to post Share on other sites
ginger beard 4,652 Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 14 hours ago, blackmaggie said: Sorry greyman it turned out to be a false alarm a fecking stuff teddy but it looked the part Please don't tell me some sad b*****d (you) went to the trouble to take a stuffed toy out to the lanes to pull a stupid stunt like that.for fucks sake. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
ginger beard 4,652 Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 You never even got a laughing face.go on then i'll give you one. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites
blackmaggie 3,375 Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 No it was part of some stuff that was fly tipped and it was pulled out and put on the path and not by me 1 Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 23,782 Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 On 20/01/2018 at 12:30, EDDIE B said: I think me old buddy Ditch knows a bit about this Danny fella It would be interesting to hear from anyone who went to his lecture yesterday,theres plenty of pics online of fallow deer and fox he has taken with his trail cams,and he has featured in several documentaries but his reputation as a big cat expert and tracker has no substance' Link to post Share on other sites
forest of dean redneck 11,190 Posted January 21, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 30 minutes ago, mackem said: It would be interesting to hear from anyone who went to his lecture yesterday,theres plenty of pics online of fallow deer and fox he has taken with his trail cams,and he has featured in several documentaries but his reputation as a big cat expert and tracker has no substance' Aye anyone can mooch around the woods in the Forest of Dean ? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites
ChrisJones 7,973 Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 7 hours ago, EDDIE B said: Eh, do 99% of the population not carry phones these days. And 99% of those phones will have cameras on them. Well, I don't but like I said earlier in the thread what are the odds you'll come across a cat, in the UK, by accident? What are the odds you'd keep steady enough to get quality footage of it that would stand up to scrutiny? The type of people that do document their lives 24/7? What are the odds that they would even be anywhere near the low chance areas where there's an extremely low chance you'd see one? I'm not convinced there are cats like that in the UK but there are cats like that where I live and they're extremely difficult to document when you do have all the gear with all the bells and whistles. We've seen an increase in the footage but not the quality of the footage. 4 Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 23,782 Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 Interesting sequence of pics from near you chris.... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites
ChrisJones 7,973 Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 20 minutes ago, mackem said: Interesting sequence of pics from near you chris.... 1 It is mate and like I've said previously I've yet to catch one on cam although I'm like a little kid at christmas everytime I open the trail cam and pull the card! Maybe I should move back to the city as this article from 2014 says that sightings in town are on the increase. Interesting to note that the 2-minute video clip that accompanies it doesn't have any pictures of the cats despite multiple sightings across multiple neighbourhoods. It only contains stock footage. You'd think that would be surprising considering 99% of the population are carrying a phone and that 99% of those phones have cameras but the lack of credible footage, in an area that big wild cats are not a figment of anyone's imagination, is surprising wouldn't you agree? Again I lean on the side of scepticism when it comes to big cats in the UK but with the elusive nature of the animal, I can also fully understand why the quality footage is hard to come by and makes it even more challenging when the country itself doesn't have an indigenous population, to begin with. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
forest of dean redneck 11,190 Posted January 21, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 38 minutes ago, mackem said: Interesting sequence of pics from near you chris.... Wow that was pretty close ,wonder if it was watching in the shadows? 2 Link to post Share on other sites
ChrisJones 7,973 Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 Just now, forest of dean redneck said: Wow that was pretty close ,wonder if it was watching in the shadows? The scary thing is that it probably was! They're losing their fear of humans in the urban fringes and I fear it's only a matter of time before a rabid animal attacks a member of the public. The problem with documenting the wild ones is that they don't want to be anywhere near you and they're much better at evading the great white hunter than most will give them credit for! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 23,782 Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 5 minutes ago, ChrisJones said: The scary thing is that it probably was! They're losing their fear of humans in the urban fringes and I fear it's only a matter of time before a rabid animal attacks a member of the public. The problem with documenting the wild ones is that they don't want to be anywhere near you and they're much better at evading the great white hunter than most will give them credit for! Wasn't there a case not so long ago in California where one sneaked into a house and took the pet dog from the owners bedroom? 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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