for those who dont believe in big cat attacks in the UK

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Just watched something called incredible animals on CBBC. One boy shown on it had been out camping in his familys farm and decided to carry his pet cat who had followed him home. The cat suddenly ran off so he followed some movement into long grass assuming it was his pet cat. he was then attacked by a big cat which left clawmarks across his head which would have required a 24 inch long claw to make!|The big cat then disappeared. His desription was that of a black panther. The attack happened last year in wales and they had photographic evidence of the injurys! Frightening really!
 
It is frightening, and I am a believer in big cats... BUT a 24inch claw... get real that 2 foot long!! Do you know how big the cat would have to be to have a 2 foot long claw!!! The average panther's claw upto about 5 inches if I remember rightly from my school days!!
 
I believe they are about, and i think what you meant was that the claw scratched a mark on the boy of 24inches?
That is scary, i grew up in wales and swore i saw a couple of odd things from afar while out riding, my friend did too
 
Don't forget the claw would be moving,even a pet cat can leave a long scratch mark
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I don't see why a big cat shouldn't be able to survive in the wild in certain parts of the UK, but I do think people sometimes get a bit overexcited about alleged sightings. Hope there aren't any lurking around my village though!
 
If its a 24 inch wound then that is far more realistic but she definitely said it required a 24 inch claw to make it... thats like dinosaur size!! I looked it up on google and its tigers that can have upto 5 inch claws, most big cat claws average 2-4 inches it said... I wouldn't even want to meet a 4 inch claw btw!
 
wasnt there a big cat attack on a pony in scotland last week or the week before?

of course big cats are around, i dont know why people disbelieve really

i grew up in the seventies and the neighbour backing on to our back garden had a lion cub chained up in his garden (at one point he had a baboon too)

the 1976 Dangerous Animals Act banned people from keeping exotic pets without a license, and i dont doubt some were 'set free' as a result
 
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the 1976 Dangerous Animals Act banned people from keeping exotic pets without a license, and i dont doubt some were 'set free' as a result

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Thats my belief too, I am sure lots were set free!
 
yes, they are about. i heard about the boy attacked last year, but i think it should have read "a 2-4" claw"... otherwise there are definitely velociraptor/t-rex crosses around, hiding in the woods!
the Govt won't admit that they're here, because if they do, they have to start giving compensation to farmers etc, i was told.
also, you can't shoot one (other than in self-defence i guess) because firearms are species specific, i.e. you have a rifle with a specific licence to shoot foxes, or deer, say. so, since Alien Big Cats don't exist in the U.K., you can't apply for a licence to shoot one, so if you see it, you're not legally allowed to shoot it...!
 
My dad's old boss let his lynx go years back....

Where my Dad works now (lincolnshire) there's a wild wallaby.

When I worked at Belvoir 6/7 years ago there was a big cat attack on a horse.
 
lol kerelli

you could i suppose say you thought it was a were-rabbit / rabid deer etc.
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mind you theyd prob then take your license away for not going to specsavers...
 
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otherwise there are definitely velociraptor/t-rex crosses around, hiding in the woods!

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That is sooo what I was imagining... can you imagine being stalked by one, you'd be pretty darn silly not to notice a dinosaur!!

Seriously tho... you are right about the government!! (and I think they're an ass btw!)
 
I have seen a Big cat,about 16 years ago i was out lamping with my then boyfriend and we came through a gateway with the two lurchers and shone the lamp across the field and as we shone it down towards the hedge along from the gateway we saw a big black cat with a long broomstick like tail,it saw us and darted over the hedge and into the gorse.It was large with a feline head and left some very big pad and claw marks, it looked like a Puma.It has been spotted many time before and since we saw it.This was no house cat or big dog.
 
Rema, lucky you to see one. i think i saw one in Staffs, but the horse i was on started going crackers (possibly because we were downwind) so i had to ride him home, and by the time i got back to the field, it had gone. it was lying down flat, in a field where 3 or 4 geese were eviscerated in 1 night...
it always cracks me up when people say they've seen one, and the authorities pour scorn on them, try to claim it was a housecat, that you can't tell the size of the animal at a distance etc. maybe you can't if it's in a photo and there's nothing next to it for reference (i've seen a pic of a black cat in a field and no way can you tell if it's a moggy or a panther!) but in real life, of course you can tell, our brains are brilliant at working out size/distance etc. a farmer's wife friend of mine saw an ABC on Cannock Chase years ago, people tried to discredit her with this argument. as if, having lived in the country her whole life, she wouldn't be able to work out how small a moggy would look at a distance...!
 
There's a Lynx loose around the Essex area, My farrier has seen it on numerous occasions nd has some all be it blury pictures of it, i'd love to see one
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Also the guy at thee ack of my old yard has got reindeer and cammels nd other things nd i know that a few years back he built a pen nd tried to get hold of a lion cub but the dude selling it to him was rummbled by an under cover reporter like a Crimestopers type thing nd he was sent down for having exotic animals without a license..
 
I have friends who have a small farm in central wales, the wife bought my first pony and whilst hacking him through forestry land early one morning saw a big black cat jump a hedge into the track they were walking along, it saw them then jumped into a field and fled. She's a farming person and knows her animals and said definitely it was the size of a puma, not a fat moggy! Plus the pony who was absolutely as bomb proof as you could get wouldnt go anywhere near the area the cat had just been!

Also, this year I broke down on Bodmin Moor, Im still getting therapy, long story, but on the trip to the hire car place I asked the AA man about it and he laughed, I was expecting him to take the pee but he said "oh yeah that" then told me that on his way home late at night he'd seen it walking as bold as brass on the side of the A30, big and black/dark grey, he even said it shook him up so much he called into the next petrol station to tell them and they said loads of people see it round there. Id love to see one, but from the safety of my car obviously!
 
See lots of silverbacks roaming city centes and housing estates, seem to dress in halfmast sporty shorts with big fat bellies and football tops, fat knecks and try to look nasty, seem to feel secure in a group and helps with making decisions as one brain cell per silverback is limiting when deciding how much larger to drink, can be very noisy in groups particularly when involved with tribal pasttimes called "footy", likes to lear at the female of the species but has no courting skills and the female has to be wooed by being drunk to be mated with, numbers seem to be increasing and culls could be beneficial for other species to be able to co exist.
 
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