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| In your opinion what are alien big cats most likely to be? |
| Escapees from collections, breeding in the UK countryside |
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43% |
[ 28 ] |
| A species of endemic British big cat somehow overlooked by science |
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4% |
[ 3 ] |
| Zooform Phenomena - animal-shaped manifestations of paranormal activity |
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9% |
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| Misidentifications of big dogs, normal cats etc |
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15% |
[ 10 ] |
| A big hoax |
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0% |
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| Summat else |
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3% |
[ 2 ] |
| All of the above |
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23% |
[ 15 ] |
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staticgirl Following my fish Joined: 12 Oct 2003 Total posts: 478 Location: Hertfordshire Age: 41 Gender: Female |
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Big cat 'stalked my children' says Gloucestershire mum
TERRIFIED mum Leah Doney has told of how she grabbed a pair of toddlers she believed were being stalked by a big cat.
She said the large, sleek black animal with green eyes was stalking her son Shyne and a friend's child near Stroud on Saturday.
"They were out of my sight for 30 seconds and my son Marley ran back around the corner and said "Quick mum, there's a big black cat", she said. "He was really frightened. I thought at first he was being silly but then I could see, he was frightened to death. The cat was about 15 metres away, down low, flicking its tail and looking at the children. When I walked towards them, it stopped moving and it just stared at me. I literally grabbed them and did not look back."
She said Shyne and his friend, both aged three, didn't see the cat but she and six-year-old Marley Stocks both believe they saw the big cat off Oak Drive in Rodborough at around 3pm.
She called police, who said anyone who sees what they believe is a big cat to call the non-emergency number, 101.
Leah, 25, from Whiteshill, was visiting her mum Cath Brown's house in Oak Drive and neighbours raced out to try to capture it on camera. They were unable to, but Gloucestershire big cat tracker Frank Tunbridge, who Mrs Brown contacted, said the dry weather may have drawn the cat to a stream nearby where deer drink.
"It may have been laying up in that area to keep cool, and might have been curious," he said. "We have to take this seriously – this behaviour has not been seen before."
Gloucestershire big cat author Rick Minter said deer fencing and scrub clearance could be sensible steps to take.
"Although scrub has great wildlife value it might help people's peace of mind if the area is more visible and there is less cover in that particular spot," he said. "Those are the sort of practical measures which happen overseas."
Police confirmed they had been contacted by a woman reporting the sighting.
Big cats in Stroud hit national headlines 18 months ago when footage of what appears to be a sighting emerged on the internet.
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| staticgirl Following my fish Joined: 12 Oct 2003 Total posts: 478 Location: Hertfordshire Age: 41 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 03-09-2013 11:05 Post subject: |
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3 post ment. Why am I seeing all these stories? Is it because it's the silly season?
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Readers respond to Tamworth 'big cat' picture |
(With intense scepticism. It's so obviously either photoshopped and/or a cuddly toy. However there is a useful history of local sightings at the end.)
http://www.tamworthherald.co.uk/Readers-respond-Tamworth-big-cat-picture/story-19723418-detail/story.html
| Quote: | Spanish authorities are using night vision equipment to hunt for a panther-like big cat that has been spotted by residents.
More than half a dozen people have reported seeing the black "large feline" in farmland around Berja, just inland from the south coast.
Several cages containing meat and image intensifying cameras have been set up in an attempt to catch the beast.
Search coordinator, Jacinto Navarro, said on Friday: "From all the witnesses' descriptions it seems it is a black panther but we're not sure.
"This very morning, almond farmers called us saying they were stunned to see this animal walking around.
"They are worried because we are dealing with an animal that is dangerous in the wild.
"We guess that someone who had the animal as a pet let it loose in this area."
The area where the beast has been seen lies about half way between Granada and Almeria, about ten miles inland from the Costa Tropical and not far from the Costa del Sol.
Mr Navarro, an environmental officer for the Andalusia regional government, said there had been no reports of such an animal going missing in the area.
But the authorities were having to take it seriously as it was feared it could be roaming around the Sierra Nevada National Park.
The park is popular with walkers and the local government feels it cannot take any risks.
The "absolute priority" of the team of three environmental officers and three police was to catch the feline alive, he said.
Earlier, despite setting up two cages in the area with large chunks of meat inside, they trapped no more than a domestic cat and a fox, both of which were released.
On Friday, two more cages and two night-vision cameras were added.
If the animal is trapped, officers hope to shoot it with a tranquiliser gun and hand it over to a zoo in the neighbouring town of Tabernas which has offered to take it in. |
http://news.sky.com/story/1132454/panther-police-in-spain-hunt-for-big-cat
I am assuming that last one could well be real. |
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| Ducado Yeti Joined: 27 Apr 2008 Total posts: 49 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 06-09-2013 19:08 Post subject: |
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It's quite funny how so many people have not made the link between ABC's and other paranormal phenomena.
It just mimics them all |
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