wild cat encounters

[bigbulls 26]

about 3 years ago i was out with my 3/4 bully on a walk that i still do regularly, its a huge sand borough that has lots of wooded patches broken up by sand paths and rock piles. we had been out looking for a day time fox and i used to get the odd one off this spot but had seen nothing this particular day. we had all but finished the walk when we rounded a corner and came right up on a very large cat with strange markings, my bitch was off the slip and when the cat bolted took off at full tilt after it and nothing i was going to say would have stopped her. it was an amazing course over some horrifick ground that made me cringe, but the dog was stuck 2 the cat over rock piles and around trees, the last thing i saw was the cat leaping over a 4 foot mesh fence wich i had never seen a cat do before and did not expect. they both ended up in a small copse and buy the time i was able to get there "fleet" was well in to doing what she saw as her job. this cat was a silvery blonde with dark stripes down its sides and perfect black hoops round its tale, it was a good bit bigger than the average tom and gave a good fox dog some deep bites and slashes. because this place is in the middle of nowhere and i had never seen a cat or signs of one there before it made me wonder what this was. i was told that it might have been a sort of wild cat as apose to a scraggy ferral and looking at its markings i thought this might well be possible. anyone ever come accross anything similar???

[COMPO 54]

Search on big cats on the General chat forum.............I have seen a similar looking thing.......did you keep it? take any pics? the Sun are still offering £50,000 for conclusive proof, a body would do that.

 

or contact the British Big cat society, it may well have been an hybrid or one of those new designer hybrid cat things....look on the thread i mentioned

[bigbulls 26]

Search on big cats on the General chat forum.............I have seen a similar looking thing.......did you keep it? take any pics? the Sun are still offering £50,000 for conclusive proof, a body would do that.

 

or contact the British Big cat society, it may well have been an hybrid or one of those new designer hybrid cat things....look on the thread i mentioned

not sure if it could be classed as a "big cat" so to speak yet it was larger than any normal pet cat. i went back the next day to have a good look after i had calmed down but the head had been eaten and it wasnt worth a pic.

[pegleg 0]

most big cats don't generaly look silver they usualy have tan or yellow and the closest thing to silver i've seen is a grizzled grey. the snow leapord could look silver although they are a lot bigger than what you described. and i've never seen a wild cat with rings the closest" ring" i've seen is the rosests on jaguar but i've never been over there so i can anly guess from the wild cats i've seen. one thing most wild cats are over 15-18 lbs for the small ones so unless it was one clearly fat house cat . look at the cross breed pets and make a guess. even "small" wild cats usually put up quit a fight an american bobcat can run for miles before being bayed and one dog kills are not normal even with gritty dogs not saying it doesen't happen just not often

[bigbulls 26]

Search on big cats on the General chat forum.............I have seen a similar looking thing.......did you keep it? take any pics? the Sun are still offering £50,000 for conclusive proof, a body would do that.

 

or contact the British Big cat society, it may well have been an hybrid or one of those new designer hybrid cat things....look on the thread i mentioned

cant find where 2 look, how do you get there?? very crap on computers but ok with bullgreyhounds

[COMPO 54]

Search on big cats on the General chat forum.............I have seen a similar looking thing.......did you keep it? take any pics? the Sun are still offering £50,000 for conclusive proof, a body would do that.

 

or contact the British Big cat society, it may well have been an hybrid or one of those new designer hybrid cat things....look on the thread i mentioned

cant find where 2 look, how do you get there?? very crap on computers but ok with bullgreyhounds

 

 

I cant Find it either, i have been searching since i posted, there was a topic honest, it got a bit emotional with people who dont believe there are big cats in the Uk countryside and then others like me who do,

 

There is a lot of theories about Hybrid cats (hybrids between moggies and wild cats) and there are obviously the people who know/believe there are true Big Cats released and escaped after the wild animals act in the 70's , there was an opinion put forward by i believe DawnB about the recent exotic pet cats that are bigger than a normal Moggie , they may have been called Savannah Cats ?? or similar?

 

The escaped Savannah cat's exotic pets theory seems to fit the description you gave!

 

The Truth is out there!

[bigbulls 26]

as much as im not sure about what my dog battled with that day, there is no doubt in my mind about true big cats roaming around our land, iv seen first hand and no of an old black big un with few teeth left that used to clean up squashed rabbits down our way on the downs roads, cant be arsed getting involved in the whole debate of "is or isnt there" coz i no there is and so do a lot of others

[COMPO 54]

as much as im not sure about what my dog battled with that day, there is no doubt in my mind about true big cats roaming around our land, iv seen first hand and no of an old black big un with few teeth left that used to clean up squashed rabbits down our way on the downs roads, cant be arsed getting involved in the whole debate of "is or isnt there" coz i no there is and so do a lot of others

 

Agree, i know what i have seen and it was a cat, bigger than my cocker spaniel but not much (my spaniel is 17inch to the shoulder) and the cat had a couple of inches on her, couldn't see the colour as it was in silouhette, and it also had a long tail