Lion on the loose !!!!

Although we are a long way from Essex I'm keeping quiet about this around the horses - don't want them getting any silly ideas about what might be in the hedges.
 
A few years ago several lions were spotted off the A38 by the Shipham turn off in Somerset. People stopping for petrol all unconnected saw them in a field. The police searched but they had vanished and they have never been sighted again.
 
HandleyCross said:
first pictures of the lion

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4506955/First-picture-of-lion-on-loose-in-Essex.html
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IF that is the lion (and I doubt it!) then why would they still be calling it a "suspected lion". That pic IS a lion - and to get a picture at that angle with that detail you'd either have needed to be 100 yards in front of it - facing it - and with a reasonable zoom, or have a £10,000 pro camera.

Let's face it, if you were that close to a lion - looking at you like you were dinner - would YOU be taking it's pic??
 
JanetGeorge said:
IF that is the lion (and I doubt it!) then why would they still be calling it a "suspected lion". That pic IS a lion - and to get a picture at that angle with that detail you'd either have needed to be 100 yards in front of it - facing it - and with a reasonable zoom, or have a £10,000 pro camera.

Let's face it, if you were that close to a lion - looking at you like you were dinner - would YOU be taking it's pic??
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I fully agree plus someting that big cant just dissapear
 
Oh why the fuss?, when there is talk of re-introducing wolves to the Scottish Highlands. Won't next winter kill the lion off, surely it would not eat sheep would it?
 
Apparently there is no other sound in the world like a lion's roar, so perhaps the person who heard it and "knew" had been on safari at some point? Or maybe to a zoo?

And hopefully it's found, as I think the preferred meal for a lion is zebra - but failing that, I'm sure horse would do just fine. :rolleyes:
 
If you have been to a safari park you might have heard a lion roar. If you are in a car and they walk past they are VERY scarey, you certainly do not want to get anywhere near.

There could well be wild big cats. After all, there are 100s of thousands of foxes and badgers in the wild, how often do people see those walking around in daylight - not that often (even though I saw a fox in the dusk last night).

I have a relative in the USA where there are wild deer and wild bears. These wild animals have huge areas, they don't live in one district. She sees the deer about evey 3 months, and the bears once a year, so I can quite see how a large wild animal could remain in hiding, if they had enough to eat of course.

Not much hope of the Police finding it with a helicopter though. We will just have to wait and see whether it turns out to be a lion or a labrador dog, or a stuffed one!
 
I've heard a lion roar when we were next to its zoo enclosure - it literally goes right through you! Its so powerful! I wouldn't have believed it was unless i'd heard/felt it myself!

They reckon there's about 12 witnesses from a camp sight that have seen it. Although people are quick to jump on the bandwagon once they get wind of something aren't they! The police must think there's something in it though or they wouldn't waste all that man power trying to find it?
 
The search has been called off.
A summary from The Sun
After having the area searched extensively by police, keepers from Colchester zoo, and a police helicopter with heat seeking equipment, NO evidence was found to suggest that a lion or other big cat had been in the area of the reported sighting.
"Experts" believe the sighting was either a large domestic cat or a wildcat.
 
Her Kitty Kitty I hear the search is being called off they think it was large domestic cat or a Wild Cat WTF its not the Scottish Highlands.

To Be Classed a big Cat, it Has to be able to ROAR, when you have heard a big roar their is no mistaking it and it carries for Miles their used to be a Lion at Guilsborough Wild life park who could be heard for miles and the same around Twycross Zoo and the Monkeys at feeding time can also be heard for miles.

If their is a lion on the loose it will soon be come apparent when stock starts to killed and disapear.

So if you need to get rid of any neddies paint them White with Black stripes:D
 
Why did they not take photos or a video before calling the police, I know I would, everyone has mobile phones these days its just strange.

I loved the lion jokes form the Scottish newspaper:D
 
A couple of years ago, there was a reported sighting of a "big cat", a black panther to be exact, in the Inverness area.
It was in fact, my Aunt's dog !
She had been walking him in the area of the reported sighting at the time the person had "seen a big cat". Hamish had been off lead..and yes...he is big and black.....a Flat Coat Retriever cross. :D
My Aunt saw the report in the paper the following morning, and after picking herself up from the floor after rolling around in hysterics, she rang the paper to tell them it was her dog who had been seen lolloping across a field and not a "black panther" at all.
She even sent us the article. :D
 
We do actually have black leopards around here,and genuinely I have seen one three times now,and many friends too..but a LION is a tad bigger ,maybe it will re-emerge once the heat dies down.:D
 
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