@@johnmead8437 it was half the size of the A road i was travelling on excluding its tail ... the only thing i could tell you that it was an extremely large cat (no way i could tell you about a breeding population etc. only what i saw)
I was in Edale years ago and my late friend Pete we were on Kinder Scout! I was taking photos and we watched a black Cat! In a field with sheep it was twice the size of them I did take photos of it and spoke to the Farmer and he said it had been spotted a few times! Plus when the Big Cat licence came into effect in the 70s and do believe that some were released into the wild
40 odd years ago whilst Pike fishing in Perthshire a mate and i put up a large cat that bolted up the lochside in a flurry of dead leaves . we got a good view and both agreed it was a lynx . We never told anyone other than some fishing friends as we were both delighted to see them in Scotland . Fast forward to about 7-8 yrs ago and a friend of mine walks into the pub and hands me a paper clipping about an eldely couple who had been visiting family but had pulled into a layby on their way back to Aberdeen to have their flask of tea . As they were sitting a large fawn / brown coloured cat walked across the road from the woods and down to the side of the Loch .They got a very good view of the cat and noticed the ear tufts . This layby is appx 2-300yds from where we had scared the cat all those years ago........they must be managing very well , i am delighted to say .
A friend of mine had an enormous Maine Coon cat that caused so many dodgy "lynx" reports in the rural area where she lived that the local police constable begged her to keep the damn cat indoors before all the local shepherds had a collective meltdown!
I had a friend in a rural area who owned an enormous Maine Coon cat which was the cause of so many dodgy "big cat" reports that the local police begged her to keep the damn thing indoors. It even looked a bit like a lynx... tufted ears and all.
Hi cookie I got a big cat story,so me and my mum was at a park and we saw a black cat with no collar I just thought it was a stray till I saw it a bit closer and it was bigger than a normal cat.It doesn’t stop there.The next day me and my mum went into the forest right next to the park,this area was famous for sighting,and this old man stopped to talk to my mum I continued on and looked through a broken fence.And saw a big cat run through the clearing.I got it on video but lost the charger.Then when we went home my mum said.”The old man said that his friend,lives on a farm,and he saw something black and big and he was gonna shoot it but he didn’t know what it was. That my story
I live in the Norfolk countryside and I've seen a big black cat while walking my dog. It was in a field that was very open and I could clearly see it wasn't a house cat, the curl of the puffy black tail was visable. It was walking quite low to the ground and when it heard me it's head turned and it froze on the spot. It then got up and carried on walking off in-between the trees. I have also spoken to people who have farm properties in the area and have seen big cats in the past here 😊👍
Yrs ago we had an English mastiff ( big black muscular dog ) some farmers were trying to get hold of us saying get your bloody dog in etc as it was in one of their fields....he was at home the entire time , had us all wondering what it was...may not sound that convincing but it was the middle of nowhere he was a rare breed and people tend to notice a missing mastiff if you own one lol
Saw one in Bucks, just outside of Beaconsfield in the early 2000's. Was late at night as I was leaving a friends after having helped them move in to their new flat. As I drove up and out of his road onto the A40, a small deer ran out in to the road fron the hedgerow opposite. It stopped in the middle of the road when it saw my car and kept looking back toward the hedgerow and then back at my car. It did that for much longer than a deer would normally hang around once startled, before turning round and sheepishly walking back toward the hedgerow. At which point I noticed a small movement to my right in the hedgerow. It was autumn/winter so there was no leaf on the hedgerow and with the car headlights you could see through it to the field behind. Sat in that field, behind the hedgerow was a cougar, which had turned its head to follow the path of the deer back into the hedgerow to its right. It was the weirdest thing, so weird that it took my mind a long moment to process what I'd seen. To be clear, it was beyond any doubt a cougar sat in a field in Bucks. You can say all you want that they're not here, but that one was!
Me and a friend while driving on the back roads of epping ended up driving round a corner slowly and bumped into a massive black cat around the size of a great dane. Both of us see it with my car lights right on it . This was 11.30 at night and I drove to the nearest police station and reported it because I thought it had escaped from a zoo. 1997 was the year and ill never forget the big cat just looking into the car headlights and not being to bothered just slowly walked into the woods .
You saw the largest Leopard or Jaguar in existence then as only Leopards and Jaguars can be black and it's very rare. Neither Jaguar or Leopard would be anywhere near the height of a great Dane standing on all 4's. The odd black Lion too but that's so rare you'd struggle to find an image. So thanks for the bullshit story.
Years ago I saw a documentary where a guy who keeps several big cats in a rescue operation in the south west ( which sounds a bit mental to me now ) said he had a large black leopard stalk around the cage of a cat he had that was in heat. He would seem to be a very good eye witness. So I mean this comment thread seems show the reason people still talk about a big cat there. People still see them or at least they did in the 90’s. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone found out there was a pet that was constantly being allowed to roam or something.
I have always been suspicious why we can't get a clear photo of a big cat in the wild in the UK. But yet in every other country they exist. You can make a feature length documentary. I think for a project you should go to a country with leopards or cougar and film them. To show that they aren't Bigfoot.
i motorhome wildcamp, in the staffs moorelands and theres a reason i m nervous stepping out to swipe the gate open at the compound, a reason i m wary from dusk to dawn while camping... in 2004 5.30 one monday dawn just half a mile out of town i saw a large black animal and noted it didnt have the typical dog walk but with its shoulder blades moving walked as a cat does.....as i passed it in the car its tail left me in no doubt what so ever ,,, it was a big cat and my passing didnt make it flinch.. i passed fleetingly 15 ft from it and anyone who saw what i saw would draw the same conclusion
Something else that I can't work out is black leopards/jaguars are EXTREMELY rare. They are extremely rare where they belong, let alone in the UK.. Yet 99.9% of ' UK big cat sightings' are black. Never ever the normal species, but the extremely rare melanistic form. Hmm
Hiya cookie there is Big cats but the last time I saw one was 20 years ago when I had lambs and horses. I live near tarleton west Lancashire. My parents house back to a 20 acre field which was full of rabbits. One morning my mum was bottle feeding the lambs in the paddock and at first she thought she saw a golden labrador out on it's own on the field. Then she realized it was a big golden colour cat by the way it moved its shoulders and it's very long tail it was chasing the rabbits. Then one evening when we were feeding lambs in the paddock I was skitting her saying there no big cats then I saw my mum looking on the field. so I looked and there it was a huge puma running with a rabbit in its mouth. Since then she saw a big black panther when she was walking the dogs. All I will say is just because you haven't seen one doesn't mean they are not there. They are very elusive and normally keep out of the way also the media never tell you the truth about anything. There was domestic cats going missing at that time too. Their territory is enormous. I really hope I see one again, I love big cats.
I saw one at dusk within five miles from your house four years ago whilst packing up for the day after shooting grey squirrels in a wood. It was a black leopard but with legs thinner more like a cheetah. Just looked at each other for a while and as I stepped forward it turned and trotted off. ( I have a pet cat , this was a leopard no doubt ) Other shooters have seen it too . Magnificent creature , doubters think that they would be dangerous. Look at what they live off in Africa. UK perfect with pheasant, deer, foxes, badgers, fish farms, rats around farms, …………… they are here and no problem at all. 👌
@@johnbooth3073 There's infinitely more universes where that was just a domestic cat than where it was a leopard. They are not here, there's no evidence of them being here, and it's just generally infeasible as a concept, they're just a rather stupid cryptid.
@@Steves_fish yep since 1970’s when you suddenly had to get a £3,000 license to keep them ( average house price was £2,500 !!! Let loose and cross breeding for sure. Leopards, Puma, Lynx will survive. If Australian wallabies can live here, Lynx from cold climates, puma from colder than here climates and leopards range over much of the world; then they are definitely viable. Food source plentiful ( I forgot to mention rabbits and grey squirrels, domestic cats plus dogs ) Have you seen the amazing home security footage of leopards killing and carrying off big guard dogs in Mumbai ? Super stealthy.
@@Steves_fish yes they are and should be officially reintroduced, boar are spreading across the country ( I forgot to mention them as a food source, wild pigs breed quickly)
I have held plaster cast prints of cat paws taken in South Oxfordshire. These were from paw prints found round the base of a tree where two deer stalkers called for help due to a large cat circling the base of the tree. Those prints were positively identified by a zoo as being puma prints. The casts were made by police scenes of crimes officers. I have also recovered the remains of a small deer in Berkshire that had a large puncture wound in the throat, and all the flesh along the neck stripped clean. Vet advice was that this was undoubtedly remains from a big cat kill. Having spoken to locals, dogs were spooked from a small copse in the same area. Some were VERY interested, others pulled away. Paw prints seen, and a large dark animal with a low, sweeping tail seen. Incidentally, a documentary series on mystery animals presented by a very well known UK naturalist concluded that the presence of big cats could not be ruled out.
I saw a cougar with cubs with my own eyes in the early 2000's at the point of ayre rubbish tip on the Isle of Man during a heatwave 1000000%. Only 15 yards between me and them. I can only assume they feed on rabbits, hares, wallabies and possibly sheep.
Heard from several ex military that there is a single big cat living on a M.O.D. base in the North of Scotland that has been there for over a decade undisturbed. Also on another M.O.D. base is Scotland there was a pair of Eagle owls which have now moved on. Just shows there are large areas of the country that don't have regular footfall
First visit to your channel. Totally enjoyed the video. Definitely agree with you if big cats were in the area, you would see a lot more carnage. Never heard about wallabies running wild in England. Take care.
Me and a large group of ornithologists from all over the UK have spent decades in remote wild UK and not one has actually seen a big cat,,, the only thing ever has been in Scottish Highlands were a bloke was checking an Eagle eire and something was growling loud from a group of boulders so he turned and left ,,, escaped and released ones where around rossendale lancs along time age they were shot and remains where found in a couple of places ,
Me mum seen a huge brownish cat in the lakes a few times, it was same height as the outdoor table! It was killing he hens and 3 domestic cats, so no mistake about size They are here mate! 5 people can’t be wrong describing the same thing
@@soccergalsara we don’t want people trespassing on private farm land, Inges int the Lake District, that’s all I can say! But they are 100% their out there! My mum and step dad don’t do drugs or even drink much, the farm is totally cctv’d up now so they will get pics, but do you think they want folk from all over trespassing? Not likely, they are there tho, for sure !
"I see several big grass eating horned cats in the paddock next to me. What are you talking about? We all know cats eat grass. Therefore something big eating grass must be a big cat right?" (Open University, Logic 1O1 multiple time sitter, as yet failed to pass.) I think what you refer to as a tail may be the big, horned Co... Cat's leg. But I'm only looking on a cracked phone screen.
there are kellas cats too totalling at about 4ft in length so its entirely possible that some of these have migrated out of scotland and that is what people are seeing
I would regularly see a black fox on my way home from work before the landscape drastically changed in preparation for a housing development... 😓 I've not seen that fox since around Spring time... I hope he/she is okay... 🤞
i work behind dartmoor zoo, , i patrol the open moorland 12 hr night shift , Never seen a big cat , But i know a cross lynx, Private collection in the area , this is what most people see lol
Hi Cookie Love your Channel Buddy These Cat are here My Wife and I were out walking some years Back In West Sussex in a remote Area of Forest and Fields......And We came Face to Face with a Large Black Leopard Very Very Scary These are within the Countryside as When dangerous Animal Legislation was changed Many People let there collection of Animals Free. They are very very Shy so to speak and Stay away from Human Contact Cookie Dig a little deeper and you will find the Evidence When we did return from our Walk I rang the Local Police and they were not interested as Many Reports had already came In
Nice video mate,iv always wondered that too,if there are big cats all over the countryside what are they eating?,and surely there would be animal carcass all over the place
I have a place in Spain, I get Genets hunting the rats, only they are noctural. Perhaps we should release some big cats around Dover to hunt anything coming out of the dea at night.
All the camera traps in the UK countryside, capturing images of the Scottish Wild Cat, the first images of the Pine Martin in England and yet never a large wildcat, or if we get an image, it was to be from a camera, developed from a potato and a couple of copper wires.
I saw a (kangaroo) in sussex, everyone laughed when I described it, as I described a wallaby, unfortunately I’d never heard of a wallaby, but they still didn’t believe me, 2mins ha later someone got clear video footage 20miles up the road haha
A few years ago there was a video circulating of a leopard/panther walking across a garage forecourt in the early hours of the morning, caught on cctv as clear as day. I tried to find out if there was a follow up to this, but could find nothing. It seems these things are kept hushed up so as to not alarm the public, but there was no denying this sighting.
There have been a few escaped big cats shot, captured or run over by cars in Britain over the years. The legend definitely has a kernel of truth behind it, but it's still a big leap to say there's any kind of breeding population, and most of the sightings seem to be bogus when you dig into them. The one thing that the legend has in its favour is that people really underestimate how secretive wild cats are. There are people who live their whole lives in wild cat habitats and never see one. It is actually possible for them to fly under the radar. In 2007, naturalists in Spain discovered that there was an entire breeding population of Iberian Lynx in Castilla-La Mancha that they hadn't previously known about, and hundreds of kilometres away from the species' heartlands in southern Spain. It's really not impossible for them to go unnoticed.
Did you spot the forest primate with white fur on its head in this video? Obviously stalking you. Which makes it a Cookie monster. I'll try to post the time stamp when it occurs.
Went back. Saw no white headed primate. Saw leaves moving that could be identified as such when I zoomed in properly . Pareidolia. Which is what happens when imaginations become overactive.
Looks like a calf cleaning it's ass. The witnesses said they were watching it for 5mins? And only got that 1 pic? Must think were all simple. Big cats are out there, but all the hoaxers prevent the real research. Best thing to draw a big cat in is to cover your body with fresh steaks, and sit on your own all night in the forest of dean , playing the constant sound of a chicken coup in distress.
In the late 1970s there where big cats that where pets released into the wild. This was when the Dangerous Animals License act was passed. However most of these cases where single cats released in a given area so the 70s and 80s there where big cats in the wild however by now all of those original beasts will be dead of old age. The only reason for their to be big cats anywhere in the uk wilds is that a breading pair was released. It is most unlikely yet it is theoretically possible as there are still areas of untamed woodlands with enough game. So most unlikely for them.
I'm afraid I have seen two, both at dusk. First about twenty years ago, passenger in car light brown colour, smallish (large dog size) with big long tail, crossed road straight into the undergrowth. Definitely nothing other than cat. Recently on bike, twenty or thirty feet in front, just saw large and black furred disappear into the undergrowth at side of road. I did not see a tail, so made me think of a bear! But no bears in UK. And as I went passed and saw were it went through thick vegetation with pasture on other side, made me think of rabbit land. Whizzed off down the road a bit quick! So think there are cats here in Essex but wonder if they can breed ? 🐆🐆
@@baz_1239 The one twenty years ago was road between Stansted airport and Stansted town. The one this summer was between Henham and Debden green, lots of farmland, not many people. Neither can be realeases from 70's as I don't think they live that long, so either breeding or escaping from somewhere. Sometimes have GoPro on front of bike, but not this time, wish I had !! Regards Pat.
There were big cats released back in the 1960s or 1970s when the new animal laws came out stopping regular people from owning big cats. People have admitted to releasing their pet big cats onto Bodmin Moor, Dartmoor and Exmoor instead of having them put down. But I don’t think any of them are still alive now in 2024 (don’t know how long they live for but it’s not that long) their is definitely not a breeding population of them wild in the UK and if so they would be inbred so much that well who knows Dartmoor alone is a massive place.
Its a black cow in a field with other cows, Folks that need to go to specsavers thinking its a big cat lol,,, SOOOOOOOOOO pleased you did this one woohoooo,,,I love ur banter, your a star
Big cats are are rarely seen as they are shy and or hide to stalk prey etc. It's more likely they will see you but you won't see them. Many years ago, it's said that some were let loose due to a change in the law about keeping them as pets etc, At that time people did not have much tech, so once seen and reported they had poor camera pics or did not have any picture evidence as not many people carried cameras around with them. Today everybody has phones with cameras. There would be many sightings and footage if there are big cats roaming the country. Also sheep and other wildlife carcasses would be found regularly. If a big cat seen a field full of sheep, it would kill and eat and would keep gong back for more. This would make headlines big time.
Had a neibour convinced she had seen a big black Puma near lake view park in Coventry multiple times, fast foward 5 years later... turns out she went into rehab for drink and drugs and last time I seen her she was newly wearing thick lense glasses.
I'm on the skeptic side. I would have thought we'll have hi-def hidden wildlife camera footage.. Surely someone would find their tracks, set up a camera and caught footage by now.
Found your channel through these big cat videos way back in the day haha 😂 good to see these types of videos again though I like every video you do 👍 but yeah I agree if big cats were here we would have concrete proof/clear video footage/camera trap footage and you’d easily be able to tell from the behaviour of the local wildlife whether a big predator was around 🤷♂️😂 but Jonathan McGowan would happily tell you there is hundreds breeding in this country 😂 makes for interesting discussions though lol
How is it that hundreds and hundreds of people have seen these big cats, but there’s yet to be a single decent photo or evidence, such as a body, skull etc?
Definitely a black cow/calf… it’s just the angle makes it look strange, look closely and you will see. Also those sheep in the background would not be so chilled if there was a black leopard in the field with them.
Do some homework on the North Yorkshire moors about 15 to 20 years ago big cat cat were seen a lot an sure we got a local news warring but don't hold me to that
People see big cats in the uk more than they see wild boars, I know 2 people to see a big cat & only 1 to see a boar (a farmer who described it as massive)
There is a big cat on the he Isle of Wight I’ve seen it I’m not the only one I was put my horse in field field long grass and I saw what look like cat it had very long tail it looked at me I t was 30 feet away the hair on my neck stood up I had goose bumps we stared and it was gone I know what I saw wevhav lots of rabbits for a t to hunt it was a big cat definitely
I bet not many of the “sightings” are by outdoors people. It’s also amazing how many of the sightings are black panthers. No such thing, several large cats have black pigmentation as a mutation and Panthers is a scientific name or part thereof of several of the large cat species. No one seems to report large cats with jaguar or leopard colouring
I saw something very rare today I thought they where extinct I wasn’t wearing a guily suit and I wasn’t in a hind. I’ll probably never see one again in my life time I was policeman
There are big cats this country people used to own them but let them go back in the 60s 70s and they did breed still finding them now there's a lot of privet owners that own them in the UK I bet they lost a few .
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i've seen one less than 10/15m from my car
@@johnmead8437 it was half the size of the A road i was travelling on excluding its tail ... the only thing i could tell you that it was an extremely large cat (no way i could tell you about a breeding population etc. only what i saw)
It's a horned panther rare yes but not extinct yet
Foxes have moved to the town's .More food.
I was in Edale years ago and my late friend Pete we were on Kinder Scout! I was taking photos and we watched a black Cat! In a field with sheep it was twice the size of them I did take photos of it and spoke to the Farmer and he said it had been spotted a few times! Plus when the Big Cat licence came into effect in the 70s and do believe that some were released into the wild
40 odd years ago whilst Pike fishing in Perthshire a mate and i put up a large cat that bolted up the lochside in a flurry of dead leaves . we got a good view and both agreed it was a lynx . We never told anyone other than some fishing friends as we were both delighted to see them in Scotland . Fast forward to about 7-8 yrs ago and a friend of mine walks into the pub and hands me a paper clipping about an eldely couple who had been visiting family but had pulled into a layby on their way back to Aberdeen to have their flask of tea . As they were sitting a large fawn / brown coloured cat walked across the road from the woods and down to the side of the Loch .They got a very good view of the cat and noticed the ear tufts . This layby is appx 2-300yds from where we had scared the cat all those years ago........they must be managing very well , i am delighted to say .
A friend of mine had an enormous Maine Coon cat that caused so many dodgy "lynx" reports in the rural area where she lived that the local police constable begged her to keep the damn cat indoors before all the local shepherds had a collective meltdown!
Eurasian lynx is plausible. They even caught one in Sydenham years ago didn’t they?
I had a friend in a rural area who owned an enormous Maine Coon cat which was the cause of so many dodgy "big cat" reports that the local police begged her to keep the damn thing indoors. It even looked a bit like a lynx... tufted ears and all.
Hi cookie I got a big cat story,so me and my mum was at a park and we saw a black cat with no collar I just thought it was a stray till I saw it a bit closer and it was bigger than a normal cat.It doesn’t stop there.The next day me and my mum went into the forest right next to the park,this area was famous for sighting,and this old man stopped to talk to my mum I continued on and looked through a broken fence.And saw a big cat run through the clearing.I got it on video but lost the charger.Then when we went home my mum said.”The old man said that his friend,lives on a farm,and he saw something black and big and he was gonna shoot it but he didn’t know what it was. That my story
I live in the Norfolk countryside and I've seen a big black cat while walking my dog. It was in a field that was very open and I could clearly see it wasn't a house cat, the curl of the puffy black tail was visable. It was walking quite low to the ground and when it heard me it's head turned and it froze on the spot. It then got up and carried on walking off in-between the trees. I have also spoken to people who have farm properties in the area and have seen big cats in the past here 😊👍
Norfolk doesn’t actually exist bro cmon now everyone knows 🤷♂️
Nobody has ever seen a big cat in the UK with cubs which doesn't add up
It was just a cat
what up my norfolk brother! dont make me scared to go out walking! lol
You should've taken a photo, Noel. Then we would have believed you. But because you didn't, we all think you're mental.
"its got horns" 😆 Those kids had to know it was a cow lol.
HAD to, I genuinely don’t see how they wouldn’t
I’ve always wonder where are the dead carcasses, farmers fields ,etc , money making
There is now actual DNA proof of a big cat now.
Yrs ago we had an English mastiff ( big black muscular dog ) some farmers were trying to get hold of us saying get your bloody dog in etc as it was in one of their fields....he was at home the entire time , had us all wondering what it was...may not sound that convincing but it was the middle of nowhere he was a rare breed and people tend to notice a missing mastiff if you own one lol
Was in leeds this week I seen a large red kite. Great to see them doing well
They fly over our house every day....they're in even bigger numbers towards harewood where the breeding /release program started..
Saw one in Bucks, just outside of Beaconsfield in the early 2000's. Was late at night as I was leaving a friends after having helped them move in to their new flat. As I drove up and out of his road onto the A40, a small deer ran out in to the road fron the hedgerow opposite. It stopped in the middle of the road when it saw my car and kept looking back toward the hedgerow and then back at my car. It did that for much longer than a deer would normally hang around once startled, before turning round and sheepishly walking back toward the hedgerow. At which point I noticed a small movement to my right in the hedgerow. It was autumn/winter so there was no leaf on the hedgerow and with the car headlights you could see through it to the field behind. Sat in that field, behind the hedgerow was a cougar, which had turned its head to follow the path of the deer back into the hedgerow to its right. It was the weirdest thing, so weird that it took my mind a long moment to process what I'd seen. To be clear, it was beyond any doubt a cougar sat in a field in Bucks. You can say all you want that they're not here, but that one was!
Just recently discovered your channel and I’m surprised it hasn’t got way more subscribers this is the type of channel RUclips should be pushing.
Big cats don't eat out in the open like that, they're very very secretive and always drag their food off to a hidden spot.
@@Steves_fish Unless there's nothing bigger than you in your area, and you know it.
See the panther multiple times over last 30 years. I will not say where
Not 'always'.
It's a cow, quite obviously.
Me and a friend while driving on the back roads of epping ended up driving round a corner slowly and bumped into a massive black cat around the size of a great dane. Both of us see it with my car lights right on it . This was 11.30 at night and I drove to the nearest police station and reported it because I thought it had escaped from a zoo. 1997 was the year and ill never forget the big cat just looking into the car headlights and not being to bothered just slowly walked into the woods .
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i saw one around 2005 in between cleobury mortimer and bridgnorth clear as day less than 10/15m from my car
Still lots of Sightings in and around Epping Forest today
You saw the largest Leopard or Jaguar in existence then as only Leopards and Jaguars can be black and it's very rare. Neither Jaguar or Leopard would be anywhere near the height of a great Dane standing on all 4's.
The odd black Lion too but that's so rare you'd struggle to find an image.
So thanks for the bullshit story.
A leopard could not be confused with a great dane; certainly not in terms of size.
i have see a panther 5 foot long not including its tail - jet black - try being a sheep farmer - we know about it
Years ago I saw a documentary where a guy who keeps several big cats in a rescue operation in the south west ( which sounds a bit mental to me now ) said he had a large black leopard stalk around the cage of a cat he had that was in heat. He would seem to be a very good eye witness.
So I mean this comment thread seems show the reason people still talk about a big cat there. People still see them or at least they did in the 90’s. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone found out there was a pet that was constantly being allowed to roam or something.
So glad you're doing vids with big cats again, the only man to actually prove people wrong and show evidence 👍
@@Steves_fish big cats in the UK 🤦🏻♂️
@@BobaPhettamine well done, that's what I'm saying you prat, evidence that big cats don't live in the UK
Well don't keep all the evidence to yourself like the flat earthers. Spill the beans???
@@andrewrobertsmith7367if there is they need to be left alone if they have been spotted years ago well no one has been hurt or killed
Cookie ❤ Got to say the UK big cats videos is what I remember you for but I stayed for the quality new stuff. Be peaceful my friend.
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I used to live in Biggleswade. Bedfordshire in the 1990's I have seen a large black cat in the fields at the back of my house
Yes!I saw one 1997,1.45am,verge side of M25,it was stalking a roe dear,not lepod,jaguer,(black)
I saw two on the M25 by Dartford Crossing
I have always been suspicious why we can't get a clear photo of a big cat in the wild in the UK. But yet in every other country they exist. You can make a feature length documentary. I think for a project you should go to a country with leopards or cougar and film them. To show that they aren't Bigfoot.
I seen one behind my house last year. It's a golf course that has farmer fields for miles. The one I seen was just trotting along the golf course
What part of the country?
Cookie should go on a big cat hunt with his camera wildlife mate 👍
Absolutely correct and a nice refreshing change hearing this ! Thank you
I don't think those cows would just be sitting in a field chilling while a big cat is eating one of them
i motorhome wildcamp, in the staffs moorelands and theres a reason i m nervous stepping out to swipe the gate open at the compound, a reason i m wary from dusk to dawn while camping...
in 2004 5.30 one monday dawn just half a mile out of town i saw a large black animal and noted it didnt have the typical dog walk but with its shoulder blades moving walked as a cat does.....as i passed it in the car its tail left me in no doubt what so ever ,,, it was a big cat and my passing didnt make it flinch..
i passed fleetingly 15 ft from it and anyone who saw what i saw would draw the same conclusion
What about you do a documentary about exotic animals at people keep has pets (big cats,birds,reptiles,) etc,etc,etc......
I explored that before Ross Kemp did it but I got absolutely nowhere unfortunately
I think it's the romance behind it.
Wallabies etc "oooh aah"
Big cat "OOH LETS CLICK THIS LINK!"
Something else that I can't work out is black leopards/jaguars are EXTREMELY rare. They are extremely rare where they belong, let alone in the UK.. Yet 99.9% of ' UK big cat sightings' are black. Never ever the normal species, but the extremely rare melanistic form.
Hmm
Hiya cookie there is Big cats but the last time I saw one was 20 years ago when I had lambs and horses. I live near tarleton west Lancashire.
My parents house back to a 20 acre field which was full of rabbits.
One morning my mum was bottle feeding the lambs in the paddock and at first she thought she saw a golden labrador out on it's own on the field. Then she realized it was a big golden colour cat by the way it moved its shoulders and it's very long tail it was chasing the rabbits.
Then one evening when we were feeding lambs in the paddock I was skitting her saying there no big cats then I saw my mum looking on the field. so I looked and there it was a huge puma running with a rabbit in its mouth. Since then she saw a big black panther when she was walking the dogs. All I will say is just because you haven't seen one doesn't mean they are not there. They are very elusive and normally keep out of the way also the media never tell you the truth about anything. There was domestic cats going missing at that time too.
Their territory is enormous.
I really hope I see one again, I love big cats.
mhm.
I saw one at dusk within five miles from your house four years ago whilst packing up for the day after shooting grey squirrels in a wood. It was a black leopard but with legs thinner more like a cheetah. Just looked at each other for a while and as I stepped forward it turned and trotted off. ( I have a pet cat , this was a leopard no doubt ) Other shooters have seen it too . Magnificent creature , doubters think that they would be dangerous. Look at what they live off in Africa. UK perfect with pheasant, deer, foxes, badgers, fish farms, rats around farms, …………… they are here and no problem at all. 👌
@@johnbooth3073 There's infinitely more universes where that was just a domestic cat than where it was a leopard.
They are not here, there's no evidence of them being here, and it's just generally infeasible as a concept, they're just a rather stupid cryptid.
@@Steves_fish yep since 1970’s when you suddenly had to get a £3,000 license to keep them ( average house price was £2,500 !!! Let loose and cross breeding for sure. Leopards, Puma, Lynx will survive. If Australian wallabies can live here, Lynx from cold climates, puma from colder than here climates and leopards range over much of the world; then they are definitely viable. Food source plentiful ( I forgot to mention rabbits and grey squirrels, domestic cats plus dogs ) Have you seen the amazing home security footage of leopards killing and carrying off big guard dogs in Mumbai ? Super stealthy.
@@Steves_fish yes they are and should be officially reintroduced, boar are spreading across the country ( I forgot to mention them as a food source, wild pigs breed quickly)
I have held plaster cast prints of cat paws taken in South Oxfordshire. These were from paw prints found round the base of a tree where two deer stalkers called for help due to a large cat circling the base of the tree. Those prints were positively identified by a zoo as being puma prints. The casts were made by police scenes of crimes officers. I have also recovered the remains of a small deer in Berkshire that had a large puncture wound in the throat, and all the flesh along the neck stripped clean. Vet advice was that this was undoubtedly remains from a big cat kill. Having spoken to locals, dogs were spooked from a small copse in the same area. Some were VERY interested, others pulled away. Paw prints seen, and a large dark animal with a low, sweeping tail seen.
Incidentally, a documentary series on mystery animals presented by a very well known UK naturalist concluded that the presence of big cats could not be ruled out.
I saw a cougar with cubs with my own eyes in the early 2000's at the point of ayre rubbish tip on the Isle of Man during a heatwave 1000000%. Only 15 yards between me and them. I can only assume they feed on rabbits, hares, wallabies and possibly sheep.
I was driving back roads once and a black panther stopped in front of me then carried on crossing the road
Heard from several ex military that there is a single big cat living on a M.O.D. base in the North of Scotland that has been there for over a decade undisturbed. Also on another M.O.D. base is Scotland there was a pair of Eagle owls which have now moved on. Just shows there are large areas of the country that don't have regular footfall
Scotland would be the only place that could support a small population at least.
True
There was rumours of a black panther living on Salisbury plain that may have got away from a circus but that was years ago
First visit to your channel. Totally enjoyed the video. Definitely agree with you if big cats were in the area, you would see a lot more carnage. Never heard about wallabies running wild in England. Take care.
Take a look at the Wallaby video I did recently! Is a good one
Me and a large group of ornithologists from all over the UK have spent decades in remote wild UK and not one has actually seen a big cat,,, the only thing ever has been in Scottish Highlands were a bloke was checking an Eagle eire and something was growling loud from a group of boulders so he turned and left ,,, escaped and released ones where around rossendale lancs along time age they were shot and remains where found in a couple of places ,
Me mum seen a huge brownish cat in the lakes a few times, it was same height as the outdoor table! It was killing he hens and 3 domestic cats, so no mistake about size
They are here mate! 5 people can’t be wrong describing the same thing
which part of the coutry?
@@soccergalsara we don’t want people trespassing on private farm land, Inges int the Lake District, that’s all I can say! But they are 100% their out there! My mum and step dad don’t do drugs or even drink much, the farm is totally cctv’d up now so they will get pics, but do you think they want folk from all over trespassing? Not likely, they are there tho, for sure !
"I see several big grass eating horned cats in the paddock next to me. What are you talking about? We all know cats eat grass. Therefore something big eating grass must be a big cat right?"
(Open University, Logic 1O1 multiple time sitter, as yet failed to pass.)
I think what you refer to as a tail may be the big, horned Co... Cat's leg. But I'm only looking on a cracked phone screen.
They also caught an exapted Linx in Barnet North london a while ago.
Hey have you done a vid on the Bristol crocodile? Because it's hilarious that people even humour the thought
Yeah! search my page, you'll find it
@@WildlifeWithCookie awesome ill go look it up, keep up the great videos =]
In my lifetime there have been multiple reported sightings of Panthers here in Blighty, the term there's no smoke without fire springs to mind.
there are kellas cats too totalling at about 4ft in length so its entirely possible that some of these have migrated out of scotland and that is what people are seeing
arent ehy too small to kill deer though? most sightings ive read about include chasing deer.
I believe there is lots off big cats and its only the black ones that get seen as they stand out
I would regularly see a black fox on my way home from work before the landscape drastically changed in preparation for a housing development... 😓
I've not seen that fox since around Spring time... I hope he/she is okay... 🤞
i work behind dartmoor zoo, , i patrol the open moorland 12 hr night shift , Never seen a big cat , But i know a cross lynx, Private collection in the area , this is what most people see lol
Hi Cookie Love your Channel Buddy These Cat are here My Wife and I were out walking some years Back In West Sussex
in a remote Area of Forest and Fields......And We came Face to Face with a Large Black Leopard Very Very Scary
These are within the Countryside as When dangerous Animal Legislation was changed Many People let there collection of Animals
Free.
They are very very Shy so to speak and Stay away from Human Contact Cookie Dig a little deeper and you will find the Evidence
When we did return from our Walk I rang the Local Police and they were not interested as Many Reports had already came In
Nice video mate,iv always wondered that too,if there are big cats all over the countryside what are they eating?,and surely there would be animal carcass all over the place
I have a place in Spain, I get Genets hunting the rats, only they are noctural. Perhaps we should release some big cats around Dover to hunt anything coming out of the dea at night.
All the camera traps in the UK countryside, capturing images of the Scottish Wild Cat, the first images of the Pine Martin in England and yet never a large wildcat, or if we get an image, it was to be from a camera, developed from a potato and a couple of copper wires.
I saw a (kangaroo) in sussex, everyone laughed when I described it, as I described a wallaby, unfortunately I’d never heard of a wallaby, but they still didn’t believe me, 2mins ha later someone got clear video footage 20miles up the road haha
Months
A few years ago there was a video circulating of a leopard/panther walking across a garage forecourt in the early hours of the morning, caught on cctv as clear as day. I tried to find out if there was a follow up to this, but could find nothing. It seems these things are kept hushed up so as to not alarm the public, but there was no denying this sighting.
There have been a few escaped big cats shot, captured or run over by cars in Britain over the years. The legend definitely has a kernel of truth behind it, but it's still a big leap to say there's any kind of breeding population, and most of the sightings seem to be bogus when you dig into them. The one thing that the legend has in its favour is that people really underestimate how secretive wild cats are. There are people who live their whole lives in wild cat habitats and never see one. It is actually possible for them to fly under the radar. In 2007, naturalists in Spain discovered that there was an entire breeding population of Iberian Lynx in Castilla-La Mancha that they hadn't previously known about, and hundreds of kilometres away from the species' heartlands in southern Spain. It's really not impossible for them to go unnoticed.
I know the feeling of seeing kingfishers and not getting pictures there so elusive sometimes and very fast
Kestrel is fantastic bird, how it hold its head locked on target is awesome
I saw a tiger in North Yorkshire, it was at flamingo land 😂.
Nearly 17k Subscribers! woohoo I'm surprised you made this video aswell 😂 but a great video as always!
"For quite a long time"
I feel like it was just yesterday you made your documentary on them XD
Still waiting for that BigFoot video though. 👁👄👁
If there was a large predator in that field those cows would have picked it up and would not be casually laying in that field
there are definitely big cats about too many sightings. and sightings of breeding pairs and cubs.
Cookie, do you still have the Cockateil.
I can't believe it made the news ffs it's a black cow laying down cleaning itself 🤣
These kids making decent money too, might get myself a fake video on the go
Did you spot the forest primate with white fur on its head in this video? Obviously stalking you. Which makes it a
Cookie monster.
I'll try to post the time stamp when it occurs.
Went back. Saw no white headed primate. Saw leaves moving that could be identified as such when I zoomed in properly . Pareidolia. Which is what happens when imaginations become overactive.
I thought it looked like a cow. Lol
Its true they do exist ,when i worked nights many years ago i bikedto work ,i saw one look left to right ,and calmly cross the road.!
Looks like a calf cleaning it's ass. The witnesses said they were watching it for 5mins? And only got that 1 pic? Must think were all simple. Big cats are out there, but all the hoaxers prevent the real research. Best thing to draw a big cat in is to cover your body with fresh steaks, and sit on your own all night in the forest of dean , playing the constant sound of a chicken coup in distress.
Big Cat Conversations on Spotify is well worth a listen.
There are definitely big cats in the UK. I seen a Lynx in South Wales. Quite a big thing, wouldn’t want to mess with it.
Where abouts buddy
I saw a whole pride of lions in Knowsley.
4:34 a lot of… LION???? Big cats in the uk confirmed
Terrible joke aside I love all your uploads
I do honestly believe that "Big" cats are here.....But thats a cow cleaning itself 😆 🤣
There's actually wild wallabies in Britain?
there are big cats in the uk ive seen a serval out in the wilds not a man eater but not something you see every day. about the size of a fox.
In the late 1970s there where big cats that where pets released into the wild. This was when the Dangerous Animals License act was passed. However most of these cases where single cats released in a given area so the 70s and 80s there where big cats in the wild however by now all of those original beasts will be dead of old age. The only reason for their to be big cats anywhere in the uk wilds is that a breading pair was released. It is most unlikely yet it is theoretically possible as there are still areas of untamed woodlands with enough game. So most unlikely for them.
Ive seen a big black cat at horse shoe point about 25 years ago with my own eyes and im only a beleaver iff i seen with my own eyes
Exactly! I would of thought there would be a lot more domestic animals showing up dead if there was 1000s of big cats in the UK
I'm afraid I have seen two, both at dusk. First about twenty years ago, passenger in car light brown colour, smallish (large dog size) with big long tail, crossed road straight into the undergrowth. Definitely nothing other than cat. Recently on bike, twenty or thirty feet in front, just saw large and black furred disappear into the undergrowth at side of road. I did not see a tail, so made me think of a bear! But no bears in UK. And as I went passed and saw were it went through thick vegetation with pasture on other side, made me think of rabbit land. Whizzed off down the road a bit quick! So think there are cats here in Essex but wonder if they can breed ? 🐆🐆
Where abouts in Essex were your sightings?
@@baz_1239 The one twenty years ago was road between Stansted airport and Stansted town. The one this summer was between Henham and Debden green, lots of farmland, not many people. Neither can be realeases from 70's as I don't think they live that long, so either breeding or escaping from somewhere. Sometimes have GoPro on front of bike, but not this time, wish I had !! Regards Pat.
@@patspc6688 Thanks for sharing Pat.. I saw a Lynx in Hertfordshire last October. They are definitely out there.
There were big cats released back in the 1960s or 1970s when the new animal laws came out stopping regular people from owning big cats.
People have admitted to releasing their pet big cats onto Bodmin Moor, Dartmoor and Exmoor instead of having them put down.
But I don’t think any of them are still alive now in 2024 (don’t know how long they live for but it’s not that long) their is definitely not a breeding population of them wild in the UK and if so they would be inbred so much that well who knows Dartmoor alone is a massive place.
Its a black cow in a field with other cows, Folks that need to go to specsavers thinking its a big cat lol,,, SOOOOOOOOOO pleased you did this one woohoooo,,,I love ur banter, your a star
Big cats are are rarely seen as they are shy and or hide to stalk prey etc. It's more likely they will see you but you won't see them. Many years ago, it's said that some were let loose due to a change in the law about keeping them as pets etc, At that time people did not have much tech, so once seen and reported they had poor camera pics or did not have any picture evidence as not many people carried cameras around with them. Today everybody has phones with cameras. There would be many sightings and footage if there are big cats roaming the country. Also sheep and other wildlife carcasses would be found regularly. If a big cat seen a field full of sheep, it would kill and eat and would keep gong back for more. This would make headlines big time.
The cows being the "big cat" wasn't bothered at all, so either the cows have no sense of danger or it's just a calf.
Had a neibour convinced she had seen a big black Puma near lake view park in Coventry multiple times, fast foward 5 years later... turns out she went into rehab for drink and drugs and last time I seen her she was newly wearing thick lense glasses.
knew there was a reason my parents moved away from my birthplace
This guy is yet to see one and then he will change his mind lol
once you've seen one its a whole different ball game ;)
I have seen a big cat the other day, i was watching the jungle book 😂
If you say that's not a big cat IDK what you're on
I'm on the skeptic side. I would have thought we'll have hi-def hidden wildlife camera footage.. Surely someone would find their tracks, set up a camera and caught footage by now.
Found your channel through these big cat videos way back in the day haha 😂 good to see these types of videos again though I like every video you do 👍 but yeah I agree if big cats were here we would have concrete proof/clear video footage/camera trap footage and you’d easily be able to tell from the behaviour of the local wildlife whether a big predator was around 🤷♂️😂 but Jonathan McGowan would happily tell you there is hundreds breeding in this country 😂 makes for interesting discussions though lol
If it was a big cat the cows wouldn't just be sitting down, they're very curious animals
No lie I just looked you up 2 mins ago to check if you had uploaded 😂 sup king
flipping heck lad, got in here before I can even do the pinned comment haha
@@WildlifeWithCookie 😂😭 Can’t stop the A Train Baby!
I don’t think the white cow would be laying there peacefully if there was a big cat there!
How is it that hundreds and hundreds of people have seen these big cats, but there’s yet to be a single decent photo or evidence, such as a body, skull etc?
Definitely a black cow/calf… it’s just the angle makes it look strange, look closely and you will see.
Also those sheep in the background would not be so chilled if there was a black leopard in the field with them.
Do some homework on the North Yorkshire moors about 15 to 20 years ago big cat cat were seen a lot an sure we got a local news warring but don't hold me to that
I actually saw a big black cat at the zoo.😆🤣😂😂🤣😆
So what'd ya call it a cow cat or a bull pussy? haha cool channel look forward to seeing more content from ya bro
People see big cats in the uk more than they see wild boars, I know 2 people to see a big cat & only 1 to see a boar (a farmer who described it as massive)
There is a big cat on the he Isle of Wight I’ve seen it I’m not the only one I was put my horse in field field long grass and I saw what look like cat it had very long tail it looked at me I t was 30 feet away the hair on my neck stood up I had goose bumps we stared and it was gone I know what I saw wevhav lots of rabbits for a t to hunt it was a big cat definitely
I bet not many of the “sightings” are by outdoors people. It’s also amazing how many of the sightings are black panthers. No such thing, several large cats have black pigmentation as a mutation and Panthers is a scientific name or part thereof of several of the large cat species. No one seems to report large cats with jaguar or leopard colouring
Outstanding!!!!
I saw something very rare today I thought they where extinct I wasn’t wearing a guily suit and I wasn’t in a hind. I’ll probably never see one again in my life time
I was policeman
There are big cats this country people used to own them but let them go back in the 60s 70s and they did breed still finding them now there's a lot of privet owners that own them in the UK I bet they lost a few .
I see loads of kites bird of prey where I live
I’m harrogate area
There here mate,I'm off looking next week,let me know if you want to join me
It's going to be hard to get one of these black cats on film.