Great video just to let you all know I’ve seen a black leopard out of a train window near Salisbury so I know they are deffo hear let’s just hope they get protected beautiful animals :)
I saw a large cat just like that in Hexton in 2004. It was all black with a long thick tail, about a size of an average dog. I saw it from about 400 yards, on the south side of the village. I walked to the place where it was, and the grass was to tall to see a domestic cat from where it was. Where as i could clearly see the cat, so it was easily larger than a domestic cat.
Hi Jim, very interesting, have you checked the areas around Ampthill. Me and the hubby had a very odd experience, swear we saw a light coloured big cat up close near the rugby pitch a few years ago. So shocked, never got a picture unfortunately. Hardly mentioned this to anyone, fearing being told we are crackers!
i live in Washington State pacific northwest, we have every kind of wild life in my area, the only time you will see a lynx bob cat, cougar is when you are being stalked or if they are eating , or guarding a kill or kits, cats can go anywhere they want at anytime they want.
Doing the old family history thing, and I've got back to Tilsworth in 1603 on the side of the research that follows my actual surname. Amazing. The further back I go, the further east I go. Given that my surname is Fenn, this isn't surprising. I'm guessing that if it were possible to trace back further, I'd be in a Fenland area further east. Great to watch a video of where my ancestors probably lived and worked. Thanks.
Lew Foley of Cradley in the West Midlands known as the lion man had a whole menagerie of those kind of cats, he apparently let his go in the Clent Hills around Hagley years back, so the legend goes. He was quite famous in his own way, his wife J, often had them around her, Lions etc They are both probably dead by now this was few years ago, but a local legend.
Excellent vid as usual ! I have no doubt those big cats are out there, and have been for a long time. ( very ) rich people used to have what they called " Menageries " at least as far back as the 1800- and even before that ( I believe Some Knights returning from the Crusades brought exotic animals back with them ). Undoubtedly some of their collections would have escaped. Which might explain the legends of Knights fighting " Wyrms ". Sir Cuthbert Du Prat's pet crocodile escapes and he has to go after it before it eats too many peasants - or worse still, one of his horses ! The Crocodile, having no intention of going back in a cage fights to the death for it's freedom. And so another legend is added to the list lol. It's noticeable that a lot of the Wyrm and Dragon legends take place not too far from water. I have to say one thing about the Beasts Of Wherever. Out of all the sightings I think seeing The Beast Of Buckinghamshire devouring road kill is the one that would terrify me the most !
That's a good point zed very interesting thought. I know these wyrm legends vary from giant snakes to full on dragons so yes maybe they are descriptions of exotic reptiles! Have you ever seen Irwin Saunders channel? He encountered a wyrm in his last video ;) Making this video left me with a couple of new questions so I might do a brief follow up soon.
@@jim.m75 I pop over to his channel now and again, just for a bit of fun. I shall have to give that vid a look. We have a couple of Dragon legends around my way ( one of which I think sounds more like a Viking raid than anything else ), and one which is a bit more interesting - the thing rampages like a good 'un and put's up a splendid fight before meeting it's end lol.
Just watched the vid. I really like their safety helmets lol. After a bit of thought, I've now subbed to him. Considering everything that's happening in the world a bit of gentle escapism nonsense is just the thing.
Interestingly, my dad always said there was a big cat around Totternhoe when we lived there 13 years ago. We mainly walked around the fields by the quarry… I can’t remembering he had ever seen anything whilst out with the dog but he used to work with big cats so if he had seen anything he would highly likely know this was a big cat. Maybe it’s like the ghost sightings around the village, if you know you know 😅
I’ve literally just remembered being in school and seeing a “big cat” run across the school field, we were in English again about 12 years ago, and the whole class stood up and looked at it run across the field…
Cheers for the comment, that's exactly the kind of first hand report I love! I think you are the third person to mention having seen 'something' in the comments now, thanks!
Thanks for the likes! Spoke to my dad about this and he said it was about 14 years ago, around dusk in the late summer as the crops had been cut back and there was no mistaking it was a “big cat” based on how it moved and the size of it.
@@jim.m75 no worries! When I saw this video I was like “urm my dad swore blind he saw a big cat…” I didn’t know it was a thing? I tend to believe my dad on this just because he worked with lions, tigers and wolves at Woburn for many years… The whole reason I watched a few of your videos was because someone on the Finding Leah Croucher FB asked if there was anywhere someone could hide a person easily in the local area, having explored a lot of totternhoe and surrounding areas as a kid I thought I’d refresh my memories of the lime works… They have a working theory she was in Eaton Bray in March 2019.
First photo is of a domestic cat 🐈⬛ for sure and yes in May the crops are green I have travelled all over the world photographing and filming cats leopards, lions, cheetahs,caracal, serval, Jungle cats and the incredible Jaguar in Brazil The body structure is different in a large cat I don’t dought they are out there though I have seen a large black cat in 2001
There is no way that photo was taken in May in the UK. Maybe the photographer has a brilliantly realistic landscape for his model railway and his domestic cat happened to walk across! Having said that, I am convinced that there are big cats living wild in the UK. My daughter is sure she saw a big black cat in North Yorkshire, about 2012, an hour before dark in March. I have talked to at least three other people who are sure they have seen them in North Yorkshire, on the banks of two of the main rivers. Riverbanks provide ideal quiet, green corridors for large animals to move around the countryside, relatively unnoticed.
That first picture of the video looks like a cardboard cut out to me but I definatley know they exist, I head an unmistakable big cat in heat when I was fishing at night on the river sow near Cannock Chase in Staffordshire about 5 or 6 years ago
I saw a large, possibly black ( it was silhouetted) cat in somerset in 2000 ish. Theyre definitely out there,and theres plenty of prey for them, but how they maintain a breeding population i dont know.
Darenth carp lakes 100% have at least two puma’s, hailshams cuckoo trail, I remember my dog was fixated on something in a bush, when I tried to look in the bush I heard a twig snap, whatever it was heavy. my was scared , I dragged him away and went home
very interesting comment. how long ago was this? if you're refering the darenth lakes in kent i used to live by the south darenth lakes & had a very close encounter (within 50 yards) with a puma back in 2009. Also saw a lynx in 07/08 in one of the fields next to the lakes. few locals have seen the lynx too. Not known of black cat sightings around there though.
@@MightyMoo89 back in 2000 I was driving back from kfc dartford and as I was driving down the track towards the lake complex car park to continue fishing, I was eating fries and looking down to grab some more when I looked up and a puma ran from left to right, tan coloured, the thing that always sticks with me is the tail on it , it was a typical long sloping tail you see on panthers , I was cracking myself, it was pitch black and I had to walk to my swim with a crow bar, I’m convinced they’re here now
Minus 18 is nothing to a puma. Get much colder in their natural range in the US and Canada. In 81-82 we had -26c and the sightings of puma and leopard went on. That winter was way harder than 2010.
@nickthegardener in the comments makes the point that the first photo could have been taken in May, if the yellow vegetation was the last year's stubble. This makes sense to me, because it is only ankle high on the big cat. (Do cats have ankles?) I've never taken a measuring tape to a panther's leg, 😂but I'd expect that, at harvest time, most varieties of cereal crop would be much higher. Up to its tummy, maybe. No way could that photo have been taken just before harvest if the photo is genuine. PS great video. I love your common-sense approach.
There is a problem with that photo if the barley is ready to be cropped. Barley is between 2 to 4 ft high when it's ready. Even a fully grown Leopard, Black Panther at the shoulders is, on average, 28 inches. That's 2 ft 4 inches. So was the beast in the photo levitating? If it was full crops of barley, you'd only see it's flanks or back. You would _NOT_ see it's feet, let alone it's legs. If it was winter barley, that would be ready to crop in late June, early July . So if the picture was taken in May, then legs may have been still visible. The photo looks wrong. And for your information. *Pumas are larger than Leopards/Black Panthers.* _And Black Panthers are just Leopards that have lost their yellow pigmentation. You can still see black spots on a Black Panther... If you're close enough._ EDIT *MY BIG CAT SIGHTING?* I have to go back some 40 years for this. The scene. I’ve just got myself an MG Midget. It’s a warm summer’s night at about 0130 hrs. I’m driving on the Worcester/Warwickshire border heading towards home in Warwickshire. The village I’m in is just East of Evesham. Badsey Lat 52 5’35.93 N Long 1 53’41.01 W I’m driving along a road that just fringes the village with open fields to the right (North) of me. I come to a right turn to head out of the village and in the beam of my MG, I notice something large and dark running down the middle of the road some 30 yds ahead. It runs for a few seconds before veering off to the left. The verges either side of the road are wide. Some 20 foot. Then there is the hedgerow to fields beyond. Whatever it was stops by the hedge, looks back for a split second or so, then vanishes through the hedge. I had actually turned the car slightly to keep what it was, still lit by the cars full beam headlights. Now. Most cynics will say, _“It’s just a Black Lab or Alsatian.”_ But my uncle always kept Black Labs and we’ve had Alsatians and Springers in the past. Whatever it was, was not a dog. It didn’t run like a dog runs. It had a long tail that dogs do not have. And it had those yellow/orange reflecting eyes that were built for great night vision. Something, that is not as good with dogs. As soon as the beast vanished, I suddenly became aware that the hairs on the back of my neck had stood up. Something, almost primordial, was waring me, that I was NOT the apex predator about. And then I realised that I still had the roof down on the MG. Something I always did if it was dry regardless of the temperature. *I can’t guarantee it was a big cat, but what I will guarantee is this. It was NOT a dog.* And those coordinates are the location of where I saw this beast.
First Photo obviously just Tiddles, no high crops field looks bare even paws hidden. DOMESTIC Cat. Big Cats only require about 2lb meat day that's size of a Pheasant no need bother with sheep
The thing with that Dunstable big cat is, there’s no muzzle at all, it’s got a perfect domestic cat profile, short neck, thin tail, short legs! Looks nothing like a panther
The womans sighting in the Church is a perfect example of a hybrid looked like a couger but had pointed ears and its fur was mottled and darker this could have been either a cougar x lynx or couger x domestic or maybe even couger x jungle cat freaks of nature can happen like this we have ligers wolf dogs and also cyote dogs all hybrids
if it was in an unharvested field of wheat, even a leopard would not be visible as the wheat would be taller. given its yet another terrible photograph and you cant really judge the cats distance or size against anything, i think the cat is fairly close, walking through short stubble and is an ordinary cat. assuming its not photoshopped
Great video just one thing black pumas dont exist a puma/couger is a mountain lion thers never been a black puma reported ever even in America also we do have big cats here for definite my mum seen a black leopard in some woodlands next to a manor house in west Yorkshire and i had a lynx hiss and bare its teeth at me on moorlands in west Yorkshire as a kid i know it was a lynx cos it had pointed tuffed ears and yellow eyes i also believe we have our own British big cat i believe theyre hybrids of pumas and leopards or leopards and domestic cats because some of the sightings are of big black cats that are big but not as big as a leopard and not leopard cubs either theyre hybrids
The leopard and domestic cat hybrid is an intriguing thought! It reminds me of the old joke about the male mouse making love to a female elephant. The elephant stands on a thorn and cries out in pain. "Oh sorry, says the mouse. Did I hurt you. Shall I slow down?"
That looks like a big cat.Abouy the helicopter the cat head it and ran to cover probably.people release them when law was bought in.and could has been bought in to uk when British were African and maybe a few escape again.And nobody knows people might have them big cat with out a licence.
I hate to be pedantic, but I am going to be! You look at a field in August and it's got crops that are ready to harvest and they are about 30-40cm's in height. Then you look at the photo, you say it's taken in March - err, that's early spring before the crops have grown if there is any much of anything growing there! And how do you jump to the conclusion that it's "clearly not" a domestic cat? Is that based on you thinking there were tall crops in the field in March? Wrong assumption if I am right. If you are going to think out loud at least try putting some thought in before you engage the voice box.... I am not saying there's no such thing as big cats in the UK, I am merely pointing out your apparent error.... When I first saw the photo, I thought, domestic cat. In fact I thought, that looks like my grans (RIP) cat "Mouser". Lovely natured cat. Did you see that? Yes I did, as it is on RUclips and you can rewind 5 seconds if your quick enough. Interesting, it was a blur, but most likely a Sparrowhawk. Not uncommon, but as an avian ambush predator it's a chance encounter at best. It could has been a startled Thrush but no, I favour Sparrowhawk (I do credit myself as an expert bird watcher). Finally, I believe I saw a ABC in Norwich many years ago. It was at Night, walking my dogs in city woodland. Dogs went berserk but wouldn't move too far away from me, a sort of I'll stay near you and bark fiercely, don't expect me to go too far away from you! And then I saw the eyes in the dark. A google search on, which animals eyes glow green at night turned up cat and deer. I think my dogs would have chased after a deer. The way the eyes looked at me and then gracefully ran off was very cat-like. It was close enough that my heart was beating at over 120 beats per minute and I could see the eyes were three to four feet off the ground (so it could be deer, but I am sure it was a cat - I have had many cats and the way it ran off - catlike.
It’s not a big cat Melanistic leopards are not dark black. Also a big cat wouldn’t expose itself like that. Finally any big cats released from private collections would all be dead by now
I can't really understand what you mean when you say Melanistic Leopards are not dark black?. Melanism is the black form found in the Leopard and Jaguar species. Also, why do you think they are all dead now?. They are seen all over the UK even today. Cubs too.
@@edwardtreadwell3859 can you show me a photo then please??? you can't just claim that they are seen all over the UK with absolutely zero conclusive evidence.
The poster is correct tho. Im not denying they are there. But they are not that dark. Almost a dark grey and youcan make the markings out @edwardtreadwell3859
Great video just to let you all know I’ve seen a black leopard out of a train window near Salisbury so I know they are deffo hear let’s just hope they get protected beautiful animals :)
I saw a large cat just like that in Hexton in 2004. It was all black with a long thick tail, about a size of an average dog. I saw it from about 400 yards, on the south side of the village.
I walked to the place where it was, and the grass was to tall to see a domestic cat from where it was. Where as i could clearly see the cat, so it was easily larger than a domestic cat.
Nice one man.
Thanks for the walk.
There’s a similar thing going on here in Australia.
Very cool.
Nice one Jim, really interesting mate! They’re out there. 🐾
They are indeed stu, between your trail cam and my walking one of us might even get a video one day! Fingers crossed :)
Hi Jim, very interesting, have you checked the areas around Ampthill. Me and the hubby had a very odd experience, swear we saw a light coloured big cat up close near the rugby pitch a few years ago. So shocked, never got a picture unfortunately. Hardly mentioned this to anyone, fearing being told we are crackers!
with all those cars its like the serengeti these days, so the big cats will feel right at home
i live in Washington State pacific northwest, we have every kind of wild life in my area, the only time you will see a lynx bob cat, cougar is when you are being stalked or if they are eating , or guarding a kill or kits, cats can go anywhere they want at anytime they want.
Amazing creatures aren't they bob, I'd love to find a print or film a big cat one day.
hahaha, beast of Buckinghamshire cracked me up, i was eating my dinner and nearly spat it out, lol, Great video enjoyed that
Cheers Mike I'm glad you enjoyed it, I'm gonna start keeping an eye out a bit more, I walk in all the right places with a camera! Who knows!
Doing the old family history thing, and I've got back to Tilsworth in 1603 on the side of the research that follows my actual surname. Amazing. The further back I go, the further east I go. Given that my surname is Fenn, this isn't surprising. I'm guessing that if it were possible to trace back further, I'd be in a Fenland area further east.
Great to watch a video of where my ancestors probably lived and worked. Thanks.
😂 LOOKS LIKE A LEOPARD TO ME.Definitely not May as you say.
Lew Foley of Cradley in the West Midlands known as the lion man had a whole menagerie of those kind of cats, he apparently let his go in the Clent Hills around Hagley years back, so the legend goes. He was quite famous in his own way, his wife J, often had them around her, Lions etc They are both probably dead by now this was few years ago, but a local legend.
Great video next time im out on my bike i be looking out.
Cheers lawrence!
Excellent vid as usual ! I have no doubt those big cats are out there, and have been for a long time. ( very ) rich people used to have what they called " Menageries " at least as far back as the 1800- and even before that ( I believe Some Knights returning from the Crusades brought exotic animals back with them ). Undoubtedly some of their collections would have escaped. Which might explain the legends of Knights fighting " Wyrms ". Sir Cuthbert Du Prat's pet crocodile escapes and he has to go after it before it eats too many peasants - or worse still, one of his horses ! The Crocodile, having no intention of going back in a cage fights to the death for it's freedom. And so another legend is added to the list lol. It's noticeable that a lot of the Wyrm and Dragon legends take place not too far from water. I have to say one thing about the Beasts Of Wherever. Out of all the sightings I think seeing The Beast Of Buckinghamshire devouring road kill is the one that would terrify me the most !
That's a good point zed very interesting thought. I know these wyrm legends vary from giant snakes to full on dragons so yes maybe they are descriptions of exotic reptiles! Have you ever seen Irwin Saunders channel? He encountered a wyrm in his last video ;) Making this video left me with a couple of new questions so I might do a brief follow up soon.
@@jim.m75 I pop over to his channel now and again, just for a bit of fun. I shall have to give that vid a look. We have a couple of Dragon legends around my way ( one of which I think sounds more like a Viking raid than anything else ), and one which is a bit more interesting - the thing rampages like a good 'un and put's up a splendid fight before meeting it's end lol.
Just watched the vid. I really like their safety helmets lol. After a bit of thought, I've now subbed to him. Considering everything that's happening in the world a bit of gentle escapism nonsense is just the thing.
Exactly zed, a nice bit of pure escapism and some brilliantly subtle cgi :)
On may 8th sunrise is 5:20ish looks too bright,but I wasn’t there,each day sun comes up 1 min earlier👍😎
Interestingly, my dad always said there was a big cat around Totternhoe when we lived there 13 years ago. We mainly walked around the fields by the quarry… I can’t remembering he had ever seen anything whilst out with the dog but he used to work with big cats so if he had seen anything he would highly likely know this was a big cat.
Maybe it’s like the ghost sightings around the village, if you know you know 😅
I’ve literally just remembered being in school and seeing a “big cat” run across the school field, we were in English again about 12 years ago, and the whole class stood up and looked at it run across the field…
Cheers for the comment, that's exactly the kind of first hand report I love! I think you are the third person to mention having seen 'something' in the comments now, thanks!
Thanks for the likes! Spoke to my dad about this and he said it was about 14 years ago, around dusk in the late summer as the crops had been cut back and there was no mistaking it was a “big cat” based on how it moved and the size of it.
@@jim.m75 no worries! When I saw this video I was like “urm my dad swore blind he saw a big cat…” I didn’t know it was a thing? I tend to believe my dad on this just because he worked with lions, tigers and wolves at Woburn for many years…
The whole reason I watched a few of your videos was because someone on the Finding Leah Croucher FB asked if there was anywhere someone could hide a person easily in the local area, having explored a lot of totternhoe and surrounding areas as a kid I thought I’d refresh my memories of the lime works… They have a working theory she was in Eaton Bray in March 2019.
@@jelliking4ng877 yes I know of that theory, that old farmhouse in eaton bray has some very dodgy circumstances around it!
That’s a house cat 😂
First photo is of a domestic cat 🐈⬛ for sure and yes in May the crops are green
I have travelled all over the world photographing and filming cats leopards, lions, cheetahs,caracal, serval, Jungle cats and the incredible Jaguar in Brazil
The body structure is different in a large cat
I don’t dought they are out there though I have seen a large black cat in 2001
There is no way that photo was taken in May in the UK. Maybe the photographer has a brilliantly realistic landscape for his model railway and his domestic cat happened to walk across!
Having said that, I am convinced that there are big cats living wild in the UK. My daughter is sure she saw a big black cat in North Yorkshire, about 2012, an hour before dark in March. I have talked to at least three other people who are sure they have seen them in North Yorkshire, on the banks of two of the main rivers. Riverbanks provide ideal quiet, green corridors for large animals to move around the countryside, relatively unnoticed.
Interesting vid 👍
Farmers rotate their crops and have a cover crop in over winter, I think it's stubble from an over wintered crop harvested in may.👍
I saw a dear that had been taken up a very tall tree in the kingswood in kent
That’s a House Cat LOL
Jim
Really enjoyed your content mate
Excellent video
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Pumas cougers and mountain lions are all the same breed of big cat just different names for the same thing
Pumas are native to North America in winter it gets down to -40°c if they can survive that -18°c should be survivable for them
That is not a photo taken in May not only because of field but the leaves are way to mature for that time of year.
Ive seen 2 dead back home on Bodmin, Their about
That first picture of the video looks like a cardboard cut out to me but I definatley know they exist, I head an unmistakable big cat in heat when I was fishing at night on the river sow near Cannock Chase in Staffordshire about 5 or 6 years ago
I saw a large, possibly black ( it was silhouetted) cat in somerset in 2000 ish.
Theyre definitely out there,and theres plenty of prey for them, but how they maintain a breeding population i dont know.
Darenth carp lakes 100% have at least two puma’s, hailshams cuckoo trail, I remember my dog was fixated on something in a bush, when I tried to look in the bush I heard a twig snap, whatever it was heavy. my was scared , I dragged him away and went home
very interesting comment. how long ago was this? if you're refering the darenth lakes in kent i used to live by the south darenth lakes & had a very close encounter (within 50 yards) with a puma back in 2009. Also saw a lynx in 07/08 in one of the fields next to the lakes. few locals have seen the lynx too. Not known of black cat sightings around there though.
@@MightyMoo89 back in 2000 I was driving back from kfc dartford and as I was driving down the track towards the lake complex car park to continue fishing, I was eating fries and looking down to grab some more when I looked up and a puma ran from left to right, tan coloured, the thing that always sticks with me is the tail on it , it was a typical long sloping tail you see on panthers , I was cracking myself, it was pitch black and I had to walk to my swim with a crow bar, I’m convinced they’re here now
Dont forget crops get rotated. The crop might have been of a different,quicker growing type.
Minus 18 is nothing to a puma. Get much colder in their natural range in the US and Canada. In 81-82 we had -26c and the sightings of puma and leopard went on. That winter was way harder than 2010.
@nickthegardener in the comments makes the point that the first photo could have been taken in May, if the yellow vegetation was the last year's stubble. This makes sense to me, because it is only ankle high on the big cat. (Do cats have ankles?) I've never taken a measuring tape to a panther's leg, 😂but I'd expect that, at harvest time, most varieties of cereal crop would be much higher. Up to its tummy, maybe. No way could that photo have been taken just before harvest if the photo is genuine. PS great video. I love your common-sense approach.
Get a recording of the calls the female males and play it in the area.👍👌
Find where the deer 🦌 hides in the day. The cats won't be far.
There is a problem with that photo if the barley is ready to be cropped.
Barley is between 2 to 4 ft high when it's ready. Even a fully grown Leopard, Black Panther at the shoulders is, on average, 28 inches. That's 2 ft 4 inches.
So was the beast in the photo levitating? If it was full crops of barley, you'd only see it's flanks or back. You would _NOT_ see it's feet, let alone it's legs.
If it was winter barley, that would be ready to crop in late June, early July . So if the picture was taken in May, then legs may have been still visible.
The photo looks wrong.
And for your information. *Pumas are larger than Leopards/Black Panthers.* _And Black Panthers are just Leopards that have lost their yellow pigmentation. You can still see black spots on a Black Panther... If you're close enough._
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*MY BIG CAT SIGHTING?*
I have to go back some 40 years for this.
The scene.
I’ve just got myself an MG Midget. It’s a warm summer’s night at about 0130 hrs. I’m driving on the Worcester/Warwickshire border heading towards home in Warwickshire.
The village I’m in is just East of Evesham. Badsey
Lat 52 5’35.93 N
Long 1 53’41.01 W
I’m driving along a road that just fringes the village with open fields to the right (North) of me. I come to a right turn to head out of the village and in the beam of my MG, I notice something large and dark running down the middle of the road some 30 yds ahead.
It runs for a few seconds before veering off to the left. The verges either side of the road are wide. Some 20 foot. Then there is the hedgerow to fields beyond.
Whatever it was stops by the hedge, looks back for a split second or so, then vanishes through the hedge. I had actually turned the car slightly to keep what it was, still lit by the cars full beam headlights.
Now.
Most cynics will say, _“It’s just a Black Lab or Alsatian.”_
But my uncle always kept Black Labs and we’ve had Alsatians and Springers in the past.
Whatever it was, was not a dog.
It didn’t run like a dog runs. It had a long tail that dogs do not have. And it had those yellow/orange reflecting eyes that were built for great night vision. Something, that is not as good with dogs.
As soon as the beast vanished, I suddenly became aware that the hairs on the back of my neck had stood up. Something, almost primordial, was waring me, that I was NOT the apex predator about.
And then I realised that I still had the roof down on the MG. Something I always did if it was dry regardless of the temperature.
*I can’t guarantee it was a big cat, but what I will guarantee is this. It was NOT a dog.*
And those coordinates are the location of where I saw this beast.
First Photo obviously just
Tiddles, no high crops field looks bare even paws hidden. DOMESTIC Cat. Big Cats only require about 2lb meat day that's size of a Pheasant no need bother with sheep
The thing with that Dunstable big cat is, there’s no muzzle at all, it’s got a perfect domestic cat profile, short neck, thin tail, short legs! Looks nothing like a panther
Crops aren't that tall and that animal has same ears as a house cat.
I seen them around chick sands and campton
the pointed eared 'cougars' are most likely Caracals, they look similar in a lot of ways except the ears and the size.
That pic could be taken on a field in May looks like field has been sprayed off and left ?? Set aside (fallow)
That field in the picture has already been harvested. If it wasnt then that leopard would be about 9 feet tall 😂
And the pads on a cat have three lobes to a dog's two !
I 100% believe there are big/exotic cats out there but it's extremely rare I see a picture that is not jus a large domestic cat.
its dogs that have symmetry in their feet, Cats have a leading toe.
The womans sighting in the Church is a perfect example of a hybrid looked like a couger but had pointed ears and its fur was mottled and darker this could have been either a cougar x lynx or couger x domestic or maybe even couger x jungle cat freaks of nature can happen like this we have ligers wolf dogs and also cyote dogs all hybrids
if it was in an unharvested field of wheat, even a leopard would not be visible as the wheat would be taller. given its yet another terrible photograph and you cant really judge the cats distance or size against anything, i think the cat is fairly close, walking through short stubble and is an ordinary cat. assuming its not photoshopped
Where would a puma get a bicycle to chase cyclist with?🏴✌️
Great video just one thing black pumas dont exist a puma/couger is a mountain lion thers never been a black puma reported ever even in America also we do have big cats here for definite my mum seen a black leopard in some woodlands next to a manor house in west Yorkshire and i had a lynx hiss and bare its teeth at me on moorlands in west Yorkshire as a kid i know it was a lynx cos it had pointed tuffed ears and yellow eyes i also believe we have our own British big cat i believe theyre hybrids of pumas and leopards or leopards and domestic cats because some of the sightings are of big black cats that are big but not as big as a leopard and not leopard cubs either theyre hybrids
The leopard and domestic cat hybrid is an intriguing thought!
It reminds me of the old joke about the male mouse making love to a female elephant. The elephant stands on a thorn and cries out in pain.
"Oh sorry, says the mouse. Did I hurt you. Shall I slow down?"
I saw something that resembled a big black cat years ago in a East Yorkshire field, we were driving past at the time. Walked like a cat.
That looks like a big cat.Abouy the helicopter the cat head it and ran to cover probably.people release them when law was bought in.and could has been bought in to uk when British were African and maybe a few escape again.And nobody knows people might have them big cat with out a licence.
I hate to be pedantic, but I am going to be! You look at a field in August and it's got crops that are ready to harvest and they are about 30-40cm's in height. Then you look at the photo, you say it's taken in March - err, that's early spring before the crops have grown if there is any much of anything growing there! And how do you jump to the conclusion that it's "clearly not" a domestic cat? Is that based on you thinking there were tall crops in the field in March? Wrong assumption if I am right. If you are going to think out loud at least try putting some thought in before you engage the voice box.... I am not saying there's no such thing as big cats in the UK, I am merely pointing out your apparent error....
When I first saw the photo, I thought, domestic cat. In fact I thought, that looks like my grans (RIP) cat "Mouser". Lovely natured cat.
Did you see that? Yes I did, as it is on RUclips and you can rewind 5 seconds if your quick enough. Interesting, it was a blur, but most likely a Sparrowhawk. Not uncommon, but as an avian ambush predator it's a chance encounter at best. It could has been a startled Thrush but no, I favour Sparrowhawk (I do credit myself as an expert bird watcher).
Finally, I believe I saw a ABC in Norwich many years ago. It was at Night, walking my dogs in city woodland. Dogs went berserk but wouldn't move too far away from me, a sort of I'll stay near you and bark fiercely, don't expect me to go too far away from you! And then I saw the eyes in the dark. A google search on, which animals eyes glow green at night turned up cat and deer. I think my dogs would have chased after a deer. The way the eyes looked at me and then gracefully ran off was very cat-like. It was close enough that my heart was beating at over 120 beats per minute and I could see the eyes were three to four feet off the ground (so it could be deer, but I am sure it was a cat - I have had many cats and the way it ran off - catlike.
The only people that don't take photos of phenomenon are the people that never saw anything in the first place.
Thats no moggy just look at the build of it.
the perspective looks wrong and the proportions are more like a pet cat
Sorry can't stop laughing!!Utter Crap.
Photo is 100% fake, don't waste your time dwelling on it.
It’s not a big cat
Melanistic leopards are not dark black. Also a big cat wouldn’t expose itself like that.
Finally any big cats released from private collections would all be dead by now
I can't really understand what you mean when you say Melanistic Leopards are not dark black?. Melanism is the black form found in the Leopard and Jaguar species. Also, why do you think they are all dead now?. They are seen all over the UK even today. Cubs too.
@@edwardtreadwell3859 can you show me a photo then please??? you can't just claim that they are seen all over the UK with absolutely zero conclusive evidence.
@@MrVelorider You obviously need to do some research. There is loads of photos, video , and all other evidence out there.
Oh, and i have seen one!.
The poster is correct tho. Im not denying they are there. But they are not that dark. Almost a dark grey and youcan make the markings out @edwardtreadwell3859
They arent (now) from private collections.... they live/breed wild in the UK.
In one sentence you claim pumas are adaptable and can live throughout America yet they can’t survive a cold UK winter!!
Pumas/ Mountain Lions survive in the most hostile climates. The British climate is absolutely ideal for them to prosper.
@@Steves_fish Absolutely right!. I saw my second Black Leopard recently. 23 years since my first. Totally different area and circumstances.