big cat attack on horse

[poacher3161 1,766]

Like Hannah said this debate will roll on and on.I used to read with intrest letters to the shooting times in the late 70s early 80s about sightings of big cats wich then would have been more likely to be true due to the dangerous wild animals act of 1976 were before that any large cat could be bought and it was not unusual to see pumas and such advertised in the exchange and mart and with the passing of the act no doubt a lot would have been dumped in remote parts of the countryside.Imagine if this act had not been brought in and the chavs pet had been a bengal tiger instead of a staffy atb dell

 

 

People will always be disbelieving of it, but your spot on with the introduction of the Dangerous animals act 76 . . . . stipulating that keepers of such exotics would need to adhere to the legislation laid down in the act . . . improved enclosures, licenses etc etc . . . it was too much work and expense for many, thus leading to the release of many "pets". There is no reason why some of these released cats could not thrive in the remote british countryside, breeding and existing with ease. Now i wouldn't suspect that there is a massive amount still living wild today, but there's sure to be some and a i explained earlier, if you consider their territory size and their elusive behaviours, its not really shocking that they don't get spotted often enough to prove the theory.

Maybe so in realy remote areas trouble is now more supposed sightings are not that far from urban enviroments makeing it to me highly unlikely that it was a big cat.atb dell

[Guest stewie]

this big cat was filmed recently not far from me!!! ive actually ran dogs in this field but never spotted any signs of it

WILD BIG CAT IN DERBY

[Malt 379]

this big cat was filmed recently not far from me!!! ive actually ran dogs in this field but never spotted any signs of it

WILD BIG CAT IN DERBY

 

Shame that cat isn't walking past anything that would give you an idea of the size. It does look like a big cat, but on the other hand it could just be a big old tom. Without it walking past a fence or something it's hard to judge.

[poacher3161 1,766]

The black cat in the vid from darby is big no denying that also the maine coon cat is now becomeing a popular pet cat to own and these crossed with other type of domesticated cats throw some whoppers as a mate had one that was a fair lump for a pet cat.

[Guest SUPERTED]

i spent a weekend in derbyshire camping any ways a crate and alot of weed later i went for a mooch,came across this f*****g thing,managed to film it and no iwasnt out of my head

[romany52 313]

this big cat was filmed recently not far from me!!! ive actually ran dogs in this field but never spotted any signs of it

WILD BIG CAT IN DERBY

 

That's just a big moggie.

[romany52 313]

Sorry but i dont believe it theirs big cats all over the country its funny how no wildlife programs have tried to prove other wise as they managed to find and film snow leopards in a vast area like the hinducush but wont attempt to try and find them in the british countryside

 

I'm with you on this one, big cats are not that elusive, they've got to shit, sent mark, there is no mistaking the smell of cat piss. Plus, females on heat can be heard for miles, if they were there, there would be no secret we would know , and the marks on that horse look nothing like big cat scratches.

 

have to disagree with you on that one. in the paper a few weeks back it was saying about a man that made a documentry on big cats in britain. he collected so much evidence that the program wasnt allowed to be broadcasted because they would fear what the reaction of the public would be. i know the paper isnt always true but this program wasnt allowed to be broadcasted.

 

 

That video was disproved, some railway buff new all the measurements on the line, I think there is something in the fact that all the cats on these videos are black, black objects tend to appear larger than the same sized object in a paler colour.

[romany52 313]

i understand theyre elusive but what about when they die?

why havent we found any dead ones?

 

Just to put some of these sighting into perspective, I saw one case where a lion had been seen on a canal tow path, it was videoed, by the time the police got there it was gone. they searched the area and eventually found it. The video evidence confirmed it to be the same animal. Now this lion even had an owner, it turned out to be a large ginger tom.

[lamping-lad 160]

this big cat was filmed recently not far from me!!! ive actually ran dogs in this field but never spotted any signs of it

WILD BIG CAT IN DERBY

just looks like a normal cat to me

[bedrock 16]

I’m sceptical about most of the sightings reported but I’ve seen something before.

This is the gods honest truth and it was witnessed by myself a good friend and a farm labourer.

 

Me and a friend were shooting rabbits on a sheep farm in 1994 or 95 and as we were walking through a field we noticed a farm worker on his way home he suddenly stopped and he was staring at something in the distance my mate had a look through the scope of his air rifle and said your never going to feking believe this. I had a look through the scope and there was a big black cat casually walking across the field next to the dry stone wall. But the most unbelievable part of it was it was the fecking cat was wearing a baby blue collar. When we compared what we had just saw against the wall we worked out the cat was around 25/26 inches tts.

To this day we still don’t know what to make of what we saw.