F.A.O. Greyman.

[chartpolski 28,497]

Hi,

    There's a report about a "black panther " on the loose in Wales, today, accompanied by the usual blurred picture;

But what caught my attention was the picture of the footprints;

Now, I'm certainly no expert on big cats, but my understanding is they all walk with their claws "sheathed", with the exception of the cheetah.

This pic seems to show the claws.

Whats your take on it ?

Cheers.

[chartpolski 28,497]

3 minutes ago, baker boy said:

Where in Wales is that Charts

Some place called Pontybodkin. It's in today's Daily Mail.

Cheers.

[bird 10,014]

16 minutes ago, chartpolski said:

Some place called Pontybodkin. It's in today's Daily Mail.

Cheers.

and looking at its size, next to the hand i reckon it be fair sized cat , what do puma knock  about 12 st ?

[Greyman 32,411]

1 hour ago, chartpolski said:

Hi,

    There's a report about a "black panther " on the loose in Wales, today, accompanied by the usual blurred picture;

But what caught my attention was the picture of the footprints;

Now, I'm certainly no expert on big cats, but my understanding is they all walk with their claws "sheathed", with the exception of the cheetah.

This pic seems to show the claws.

Whats your take on it ?

Cheers.

They use the claws in soft ground as well mate like a running shoe with spikes this is a leopard print from India on soft sand, the one in the wales pic does appear to have three lobes on the back pad which would lean it towards being feline

[Ted Newgent 4,896]

Pontybodkin lol

seriously up that way. 
more than one person should of seen it around there

[low plains drifter 11,308]

Pontybodkin, is that the Hollywood of Wales ?

[Lenmcharristar 10,363]

8 hours ago, chartpolski said:

Hi,

    There's a report about a "black panther " on the loose in Wales, today, accompanied by the usual blurred picture;

But what caught my attention was the picture of the footprints;

Now, I'm certainly no expert on big cats, but my understanding is they all walk with their claws "sheathed", with the exception of the cheetah.

This pic seems to show the claws.

Whats your take on it ?

Cheers.

Your  hand could be like jeremy beadles though

[Squirrel_Basher 17,102]

With these track pics why do we never see the full trail ,only ever one pic .The top pic looks more like a burnt out car ffs .

[Greyman 32,411]

15 minutes ago, foxdropper said:

With these track pics why do we never see the full trail ,only ever one pic .The top pic looks more like a burnt out car ffs .

If you have a cat in your house watch it walking when it’s wet or muddy, there is some quite exciting dna technology coming through were they can take soil samples and get dna from what’s walked on it and water samples that can tell what has drunk from it so I think soon you will be able to take a scraping from a track and get dna confirmation, if we had more proper snow we would be able to track on it and get dogs on the scent but alas it’s not to be and this is about as good as you ll find, most of the tracks I’ve ever found are also sadly on footpaths or gateways as cats follow the path of least resistance and as a consequence soon get walked over by everything else even that track in the snow has a dog print with it and in 24 hrs it will be gone