Are Big Cats Roaming The UK? - 18/08/2023
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in the 80s i was a police officer in Argyll scotland, we had an outbreak of big cat sightings from very reliable witnesses ghillies, farmers, hunters etc, firstly all of the rabbits disappeared, then the grouse, then sheep and deer were found dead with compression bite marks around the neck, a vet carried out a post mortem and stated that the cause of death was strangulation by a throat bite, by a non indigenous very large feline, prints were also found and casted and were sent to blair drummond who confirmed the cat theory. one day off duty i was up in the hills of a plantation deer hunting and my attention was drawn to movement near to a 12 foot deer fence about 450 metres away.I watched through my powerful 20 x rifle scope and saw a black animal which i initially thought was a dog, it was the size of a large Alsatian as i watched i realised what i was looking at it was a long tailed cat, i watched it for about 10 minutes then it bounded along and in three leaps cleared the fence. the police bosses did not want to know and tried to downplay and disrepute vets and locals evidence, I wasn't the only police officer who saw it and there was more than one creature. a public meeting was set up at the police station and the police basically said that the witnesses were seeing what they wanted to see. then a few months later the sightings stopped the creatures having apparently moved on to another feeding ground.
A few years ago there was a puma caught on a families cctv walking out of their drive turning right and walking off down the road and this was in a built up area in Birmingham
I was driving home in the herefordshire county in the uk. I slowed down as I saw a wallaby about to cross the road, the wallaby crossed into a field, I drove on then thought, hang on I am in the uk not oz. I had lived in oz for many years and was used to kangaroos and emus crossing the road and looking out for them. Most of my friends thought I was mad, so I looked online and found an article about a wallaby seen and photographed in Hereford city centre the year before in the snow.
There is wild wallibies in the UK I think 🤔
@@susandavey2361 yes there are, many sightings too.
A load of Wallabies were released in the Roaches decades ago. Apparently they were quite visible but their numbers have now dwindled significantly.
In addition, I live in Stoke on Trent, the place where a big cat photo has recently come to light and brought this story into the public eye again. I'm not sure I believe it, but as Stoke is so close to the Derbyshire and Staffordshire Moors, there's a possibility that big cats in captivity were released into the countryside. There has also been increased sightings of deer in residential areas close to open spaces, which might explain animals of prey being more prevalent too.
According to one person, the 'releasing' of big cats in captivity is the case, as a law was brought in regarding the keeping of wild animals.
The is wallabies in the Isle of man
I once saw a Lynx, as I was traveling along the M4
I've seen a big, black cat in Dorset about 20 years ago.
I was out in the garden with my dog as it was getting dark.
There is a raised railway line at the end of the garden and tennis courts on the other side.
I was amazing to watch a big, black cat stroll along the railway, lit up by the floodlights from the tennis court.
Did you call anyone to report it?
@@healthiswealth1452 so if it wasn’t reported it didn’t happen? Brilliant teachings this 🤦♂️
@@matthewsexton6176 the classic 2023 passive aggressive question to a simple question
@@healthiswealth1452 not really when you’ve mention it down the feed to more than 1 person. What is your obsession with calling the police out of interest?
@@matthewsexton6176 if I saw a black panther in the countryside, I would definitely call the police or daera, so they can catch it So it doesn't hurt anyone. Whys that hard to understand
I know RIck quite well and he kindly did the intro for my big cat short film, "Living With Leopards".
It's not evidence, it's my witness testimony which Rick wanted me to share with the world for a few years, so after the DNA evidence came to light I did it. Thanks all!
There’s a big black cat in Medway area. Saw it 2 years ago hunting in fields. I wasn’t a believer until I saw it. Couldn’t believe my eyes. Others have seen it too
Assume you reported it to daera
@@healthiswealth1452 no I don’t really know who to report to. What is this ?
@@truthfactreality6814 if you thought you really saw a panther you would have atleast called the police, stop lying to yourself
@@healthiswealth1452 hahahaa. Nope. I saw it. You are the problem. Get a job
What's worse now is they have DNA evidence to prove that they do exist
My grandparents say they seen a big black cat in a tree at Upton country park poole Dorset..
They both ran and reported it to the police.
Then they cane to my house and had a drink and told me the story, helicopter was called by police but nothing came of it.
I believe big cats are living in the uk 100%
When i was doing some pest control on a farm in Shifnal near Telford Shropshire a big black cat ran out in front of us and cleared the lane in one and a half leaps I know what me and my friend saw and it was definitely a cat. That happened in 2009.
what species specifically?
@@itsoccamsrazor In my opinion a panther but definitely a cat
Mate, I saw a panther today on Cannock Chase
I was driving from Telford to Stoke on the A519 at about 6pm about 7 years ago on a lovely slummy summers evening. I saw something large and black in a field to my left…100% it was a very big cat…its body was very low to the ground and it had a huge tail. I slowed a little to get a better look and no way was it a dog. I couldn’t stop as there was nowhere safe to stop and as I looked in my rear view mirror I saw the guy behind also watching what I saw. I’ve told a few people what I saw but I’m sure they don’t believe me. I don’t really care as I know what I saw and that is all that matters…it was a fantastic experience.
I know the feeling people think i mistook it for a dog.
Good to see Rick on TV.
Big Cat Conversations is an excellent podcast, one of my favourites.
Me too 😊
is andy peters a vampire cuz he never seems to age
This reminds me of the moose in Alaska earlier this year strolling into a picture theatre and eating the popcorn on the counter (yes it in UA-cam) 😂 In Australia we have a lot of feral cats and people tend to feed them, they then can grow larger but they attack people, birds, lizards and a lot of small animals….we only have big cats in some zoos..but…recently 3 big cats escaped in Sydney from the zoo and went for a stroll around until the people repairing the fence of their enclosure realised they went missing…luckily no one was attacked….they were recaptured and the zoo decided to build a better enclosure after that…
I see a big black cat near to the dog kennels on way to Aylesbury. That same cat was alao spotted in wendover woods not far from that area by a dog walker. Also a sheep or dog was eaten at the Hell fire caves on the footpath and we found paw prints in the mud and fur leading into the woods.
I have seen a big cat the other day, i was watching the jungle book 😂
😂
I saw one in Dorset this year
I saw a flash of a huge cat last night. But I had a headache and she hadn’t shaved her legs so i told her to put it away
Last week I heard a cat sound outside my camping pod.
I have just researched the noise to find out what it was.
Now I'm excited.
It was a cougar calling to it's mate.
This isn't the first time, I've had a big cat encounter.
I live in Lincolnshire.
To be fair, they are not interested in humans, they eat rabbits, pheasants and just hunt like foxes.
Mainly at night, so the chances of
Another family member who lived in Essex had one asleep in his orchard.
They are magnificent animals, and are part of the UK's large cat population.
Which is wonderful.
Exciting!
absolute bollocks
It was probably a female, trying to attract a male....
It was probably a female, calling out for any potential mates. That's how they attract a mate.
yeah sure , we have cougars and black leopards, delusional
@@S.Trades
Plenty of cougars in Manchester on a Saturday night.
I saw one in Shepton Mallet 2 years ago. It ran across the road. Wish I had a dash cam
Didn't think to call the police and report a panther 😂
@@healthiswealth1452 no chance. Other cars stopped and pulled off to see it scamper up a hill. There was a reported sighting a few weeks after for Shepton Mallet area. It’s on google but proves f all I know.
@@healthiswealth1452 just seen all your other replies on the feed. I don’t need to lie about it to get attention, that’s why I would never in a million years report it to the police. What are the police going to do anyway 😂
I see 100% lynx in hollaway london
This has been real for so many years..
Yet nobody has caught on on camera that doesn't look like a normal black cat
@@healthiswealth1452Wrong!!. Just do some research.
The blonde woman is right, the attacks on her livestock strongly suggest that big cats do exist.
There would be carcasses all across the countryside if they were out there...
What's left of them
There are millions of deer, breeding out of control in the uk... when did you last (or ever), see a deer carcass? Any dead animal is broken down really quickly.... eaten by maggots/scavengers. And if predated by a cat, will be half eaten, there and then.
Black jaguars and leopards can produce spotted cubs although the melanistic gene is dominant. Just so many small inaccuracies in this interview but that's the one that got to me most . That said I do believe there are small populations of cats in the uk.
First picture is quite clearly a domestic cat
Second is a Cane Corso or Boerboel
Third is a fast moving dog like a Staffordshire bull or American bully... we all want to believe but be realistic
I've seen one - or I thought I saw one. It was back in the early 80s and I lived on a farm in Devon. I saw a very large cat/dog, it looked like a mix of both. Back then we didn't have mobile phones so there was no evidence.
Cheers for that. Have you ever seen Manbearpig?
The thing of big black cats in the uk is somehow interesting to me. Although I don’t live in the uk. Several more months ago I read in wiki about big black cats in the uk a British camera team gained an evidence to 98% of black leopards. I do not remember exactly. I reread the wiki article but the part with 98% is missing. Somebody deleted it. Doing some research in yt here, maybe deleted naybe because black leopards share 99% genmaterial of domestic housecats. Whatever, wiki says most sightings got reported in Devon, southwest England, followed by Scotland and then rest. However, is there a wildcam somewhere in the uk with sightings of a black big ö cat????
It was DNA evidence that was taken from hair found on a fence near a sheep kill in Gloucestershire. 98% Black Leopard. These and other big cats ( Puma, Lynx etc) are reported from all over the UK.
I thought I saw one as a kid in the woods near home in NE Scotland. Was never sure if it was real or just my imagination.
They were imported pets originally and I'm frankly against culling them when spotted unless they cause big issues for somebody. I added a chapter to a book I wrote regarding domestic cats once about big cats and how actually, despite being an imported species, they have far better prospects for controlling lower species to benefit the ecosystem than the ideas about reintroducing wolves, bears and such which would pose a greater threat to people. We used to have cave lions in Britain and they help to control deer populations, badger and the like whilst are obviously also aversive of people. You rarely see big cats in their native countries and I believe that we should be pleased to have our own populations of critically endangered species breeding here in Britain where they are safe from other factors which threaten them in their native countries such as poaching.
I havent seen a black cat, but im almost sure i heard one around 20 years ago, i was sat in my garage which ajoins the house, smoking a cigarette in the early hours, back then i worked nights, and it was ome of my weekend nights off, and to keep my body clock on nights, i stayed up all night on my weekends and slept through the day
It was around 3am, in Derbyshire, and i heard either fence panels or shed roofs rattling in ajacent gardens, then, extremely loud footsteps on my kitchens flat roof, which is next to the garage, i assumed it was a burglar at first, because it sounded like something weighing 10+ stones in weight on the roof, so i sat still and didnt make any noise, wanting to hear what they were doing
Our garage roof was at the time 2 feet lower than the kitchen roof, and its quite often cats will walk along the kitchen roof, drop down onto the garage roof and drop down onto our driveway
This happened that night, but the bang when whatever it was jumped down the 2 foot drop, shook the roof joists, so it was something really heavy
It then proceeded to what i assume lay down on my garage roof, and that again was a really loud noise, much louder than what a domestic cat would make
I started to assume it could be some kind of animal, and started deducting which species, i ruled out domestic cats as it was far too heavy an animal, i ruled out foxes because i dont think they could jump that high
I ruled out birds because you can hear birds paddling on roofs
I figured it must have been a big big cat, a similar size to a leopard, judging by the sheer amount of sound it made
I was like mentioned before, no stranger to domestic cats walking along the roof
I sat in silence until it went, but before it did, it lay on the roof, and i could hear it breathing through the roof, so i assumed it must have been a large animel with a powerful respiratory system
I sneaked into the house as quietly as i could, crept upstairs as quietly as i could, and looked through the landing window, which overlooked the garage, but could not see anything, just pitch dark blackness, if there had been a lighter coloured car up there on the roof, i would certainly have seen it, as there was a little ambient light
I sneaked back into the garage, and when i did, i made a sound by accident, which startled the animal, which must still have been there, and it lept up and ran across the garage roof and dropped down onto the drive, that was the single loudest noise i have heard from that garage roof, so i am almost certain it was a big cat, not a domestic cat
The following day, i went outside, and the street was in chaos, everyone's dustbin had been knocked over and contents pulled out, just like foxes have done before
I am, without a shadow of a doubt, certain i heard a big cat that night, i have never heard anything like that since
I believe this. I've seen one, Staffordshire
@@Mantis_X not too far away for a cat that size, it could probably commute to a feeding ground that far in a night if its not disturbed by traffic
I didn't even think anything of black cat sitings.
It was 2018 I was in the kitchen, the window overlooked farmed fields on the out skirts of the village.
I was washing up, just casually looking out of the window, I thought I saw a cow or something but my brain didn't register and I looked up again and It was a larger feline walking along by the hedgerow, about half the height of the hedgerow.
The scale was definitely right.
I questioned myself at first but there's no way it was anything else, sauntering how it did with tail outstretched..
There's deers sometimes spotted round here, so there's a food source.
And from where I am, the cat could make the trip undisturbed by traffic with ease I'm sure, up to leek, into Buxton and there's Derbyshire 🤣
@@Mantis_X i do believe there are big cats, its kind of obvious theres going to be breeding pairs if so many got let out in the 70s, it wouldn't take them long to find each other, they can probably track each others scent for miles
Its scary to think though, you could be walking somewhere at night and bump into a hungry one 🤦♂️
I often walk the countryside and although I haven't seen any big cats ! I do see big red circles now and again ! 🤯
What are the big red circles?
@@LettieLoop The opposite of big red arrows ! never mind, I was being facetious ! 🤭
There are a lot of cougars everywhere, my neighbor is a cougar. Their must be cougars in your place, the lady looks like a cougar beside the Brit African
Shouldnt have watched this as when i was living down salfords was biking to work in the early hours of the morning around 4am and usually see dears, badges rabbits was biking up the road that was surrounded by trees before getting to redhill, heard something moving about in the bushes and it was pretty light at the time as was summer time so i stopped thinking it was a fox or something else and saw a dear dead in the bush with it head pointing away a head shouldnt be and hearing something running of in the other direction, i never thought about it till watching this i just put it down to the dear being hit by something
*deer* autocorrecter up to its usual tricks
Could well have been a big cat.
Certainly they can especially jaguars which they like the panthers in black fur they are the ones that have been spotted
Omg that is so scary 😱
I want too believe they are here but not until I see one myself! I live in Kent
Ypu will probably never see one but that changes nothing. Very few people ever do.
Someone needs to go find them
That one walking by the swan certainly looked K9 to me.
Back in 1993 in Great Malvern both my wife and I heard a big cat in our garden. I was at one end of the house and she at the time was at the other. We did not see anything as it was dark.
Ffs
How old are you?
Malvern area often turns up sightings.
How often do we hear of farmers and other country dwellers finding carcasses of eaten animals/livestock? We dont. Big cats can eat up to 50kg of meat per day ( or minimum of 9kg per day just to survive). If there were big cats in the UK we would know it for sure.
That's a very good point to be honest, never thought of that myself.
What a load of nonsense. How come I have seen 2 in my lifetime, and many years apart.
Farmers keep their sightings quiet.
@@edwardtreadwell3859 and you seen the Loch Ness monster as well. No substantial proof.
Which is why we do know about them. And what big cat needs a minimum of 9kg meat each day? They don't eat every day. They don't need to. What do you think they live on? Maybe...mice, rats, birds/pheasant, rabbits, foxes, maybe the odd domestic cat, deer (6 species) and possibly the occasional sheep.
A lion for example, might eat once a week, but properly gorge itself. Then hardly walk for a couple of days. Predators need to take advantage of a meal while it's there, so they stuff themselves, while they can.
@@S.Trades No proof
The reel alright, too much evidence now they even caught alive one a puma, in highlands of Scotland, they then kept it in a wild park zoo they named it felicity.
When it died, it was stuffed and displayed in Inverness museum
all these years, and still no hard evidence it seems. al these hunters posting at dusk/dawn with scope cameras. and wildlife photographers posting at the same hours. sitting still, waiting. all over the countryside. nothing...?
7:53 That's a black leopard/panther
The blonde woman is attractive.
Ive seen one. 100% they are roaming the uk.
Explain the sighting to me. I’ll then tell you if it was infact a big cat or not.
Hes lying
@@healthiswealth1452 top quality opinion there. If you honestly think people write on a UA-cam link to lie then you need to take your head for a wobble. What have they got to gain? Don’t forget to ask if he called the police 👮♂️ 👍🏻🤦♂️
@@matthewsexton6176 why would he have called the police or daera after seeing a potential dangerous animal on the loose
@@healthiswealth1452 why? Because people like you say they are telling lies, you’re acting like it’s a ghost or God. It’s an animal
7:51 I mean
Yes they are. I came across a Black Panther while walking my dog in Aylestone Meadows, Leicester back in 2014.
Did you report it to daera
no, no you didnt
@@itsoccamsrazorOh yes he did!!
@@edwardtreadwell3859 he didn’t , delusional
You definitely sound delusional.
Such a sad life.
Wondering snow 54
Why did this so called expert Keep referring to them as "black panthers"
Because that is the common name for them throughout the World.
8:45 If that was taken in the UK, then yeah that's a big cat too.
Love andy peters natural fun and he keeps it real 😊
There is animals that shouldn't be in this country wandering our countryside . I live near old zoo up here Scotland. And I believe it was going thrgh hard time with council funding and place was run down for years fences were bad enclosures were disgrace but was fences that were really bad and security in fact was absolutely no security you could go in night wander around as was holes in outer fencing to get in that everyone area knew about and when young would do it after drink or whatever got up to when young .. and I used get animals escaping and walking around in gardens and streets till they got call and would come herd them back in back gate end street in little kids park n community hall ..
Were non dangerous animals but still managed get out a fenced in spposedly zoo ???? And then 1 nite hand on heart seen a WOLF NOT DOG IT WAS SOME SORT WOLF ANIMAL ITS BODY AND FACE LOOKED LIKE WOLF BUT ITS LEGS WERE SO LONG AND TALL IT MADE THING LOOK RATHER SILLY IT WAS LIKE SIZE OF (GREAT DANE DOG ) IN HEIGHT BUT NOT BUILD JUST LIKE WOLF ON BODY BUT WITH THESE EXTRA LANKY LONG LONG LEGS ... AND WALKED OUT FROM BUSHES WHEN WAS WALKIN UP HOUSE FROM MAIN ROAD AFTER GETTIN OFF LATE BUS AT LIKE.12 AT NITE ROADS QUIET N NOONE AROUND JUST WANDERED OUT BUSHES AND CROSSED ROAD DIRECTLY FRONT ME JUST TURNED ITS HEAD STARED AT ME WHOLE WAY AS IT WALKED ACROSS FRONT MY PATH KEPT ITS EYES ON ME WHOLE WAY I JUST STOPPED AND I WAS TERRIFIED ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED IT HAD RED COULOURING AROUND ITS LIKE MAIN OR NECK AND REALLY SCARY SCARY EYES . ITS WHAT WOULD THINK WEREWOLF TO LOOK LIKE BUT IM SERIOUS THIS WAS WOLF MUST ESCAPED FROM ZOO OR BEEN ATTRACTED THERE BY CALLS OF OTHER ANIMALS IN ZOO ?? CAUSE ZOO THAT CLOSE WHEN SAT MY BEDROOM YOUR BODY COULD FEEL RUBBLE WHEN IN MORNING LIONS ROAR OR AT LIKE 5 AT NITE DONT KNO IF CAUSE GETTIN DARKER OR FEEDING TIME BUT WAS SAME TIME MORE LESS EVERY DAY THESE THINGS ROAR I TELL YOU FEELING THAT GIVES YOU HEARING THAT SO SO CLOSE IS AMAZING . BUT WOLF CREATURE IF THAT ESCAPED AND OTHER HARMLESS ANIMALS COULD ESCAPE THEN WHAT ELSE COULD MAYBE OR COULD HAVE GOT OUT THERE . AND CAUSE WERE STRUGGLE FOR FUNDING AT TIME THEY.WOULD WANT BAD PRESS OR WOULD BE SHUT DOWN WHEN WERE TRYIN HOLD ON ZOO WITH THERE FINGERTIPS AT TIME BUT I BELIEVE IF ANIMAL ESCAPED FROM THERE DANGEROUS ANIMAL I THINK WOULD KEPT QUIET AND TRIED FIND AND DART IT THEMSELVES AND KEEP IT HUSH HUSH AT TIME .. IL NEVER KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT WOLF CREATURE BUT I WILL NEVER FORGET IT 1ST CAUSE ITS WOLF AND WAS SO SCARED THGHT GOING GET ATTACKED WAY LOOKED AT ME BUT 2ND CAUSE LENGTH OF ITS LEGS I HAD NEVER SEEN ANIMAL LOOK SO STRANGE WITH SUCH LONG LONG LEGS AND THATS WHY I DEFO KNEW WASNT A DOG AS A DOG JHST DOESNT LOOK LIKE THAT NO MATTER WHATS BRED IN IT JUST DOESNT LOOK THAT WAY FACT ?? ..BUT IF THAT GOT OUT WHAT ELSE GOT OUT THERE AND WE HAVE PLENTY OPEN SPACE AROUND HERE STILL THIS DAY MUCH LESS THAN BACK THEN BUT STILL ENOUGH OPEN SPACE SOMETHG STAY HIDDEN AND LIVE HERE AND AROUND HERE
Should have concentrated at school mate.
Learn to spell and write.
I once thought I'd seen a big cat ,it was walking slowly towards me and my dog in long grass , it was actually a big black domestic cat very friendly , it's amazing how your eyes deceive you
How could you mistake a domestic cat for a "big cat" approaching you? Seems very unlikely.
@S.Trades it was only momentarily. It was in long grass, and the cat was at a short distance. The point I was making is that your eyes can deceive you it's unusual for a cat to approach a strange dog it was in long grass, so it was not that visible , but momentarily, it did spook me
if there are leopards here you could track them by the missing dogs as they are the preferred prey.
Over the last few years, there have been discussions about reintroducing the Eurasian Lynx to the UK. This ofcourse being a 30-40kg medium sized Cat.
The answer to this point has been a resounding “NO”. Why? Because other than remote parts of Scotland and the odd bit of Wales, there is NOWHERE IN BRITAIN wild enough to accommodate such a creature in this day and age.
Can someone explain to me how a Leopard twice this size, manages to not only survive, but remain illusive at all times, this considered?
I think you mean "elusive"? And generally, anywhere that can support deer, can also support a big/lesser cat.
@@S.Trades Explain to me how this big cat completely avoids detection at all times, while these Deer don’t. Once you can do that, you may have a point. We’re talking about something which has NEVER even been caught on CAMERA. In 2023 Britain.
@@S.Trades I’ve spent the occasional hour since this post going through each and every upload of footage here on UA-cam described as being that of a “big cat”. In each and every one of them I’ve yet come across, the animal in question is clearly a domestic cat.
@@Onslaught17 who do you think you are talking to?
@@S.Trades Absolutely no idea.
Regardless of your expertise, I will still need an explanation of just how this creature completely avoids detection, in 2023 Great Britain, while nothing else that exists in the country is able to do so.
We’re talking about an island smaller than 99% of states in the US, half the size of New Zealand, now mainly comprised of cities/towns and farmland.
Just HOW does this thing remain unseen. Is it invisible?
There are just couple of big cat owners around the country which let them loose every once in a while. And people think there's a big cat in the wild. 😅 Or they see a fox but can't process properly and assume it's a cat... 🦊 Or maybe they drink too much tap water 😂
Not "a big cat". There's a population of them, almost certainly. Living and breeding in the uk countryside. That's lynx, puma and panther.
What the hell is she wearing?
Amazing photo the Beast of Smallthorne
A black panther isn't even an animal, its either a melanistic leopard or jaguar, there is no such animal as a black panther
Yes, there is. Depends where you live in the World.
@edwardtreadwell3859 No, as stated its either a melanistuc leopard or a melanistic jaguar, there is zero black panthers, its either a leopard or jaguar with a dark coat called melanistic
@@r4vr4c Black Panther is the World recognised term for Black Leopard and Black Jaguar and is fully accepted by Scientists and Naturalists.
@@edwardtreadwell3859 The term Black Panther is a colloquial term used to refer to large cats of the Pantera genus which have a dark melanistic coat. That is completely different to saying its a real separate species/animal. The correct term is melanistic leopard or jaguar as an actual black panther implies its a different species of feline which there isn't one. They use the term loosely not scientifically.
@@r4vr4c It is an accepted term to describe a Black cat. Stop being so pedantic.
We cool if they are black leopards, if they are black Jaguars we are fuked
I’d have truck with this, except EVERY account of one, when looking at the picture, is CLEARLY nothing more than a large domestic Cat. Clear as day. I’ve also seen articles showing “large pug marks”, these again CLEARLY being nothing more than the paw print of a large Dog.
How anything the size of a Leopard could hide in a place as small and un-wild as the UK in this day and age, is beyond me. It’s surely impossible.
And yet presumably you accept that the uk can support millions of deer, yes? Millions of rabbits, rats, pigeons, many thousands of foxes, etc...
@@S.Trades Yes. You’ve (somehow) missed the point being made entirely. Astounding you could be so unbelievably dull in order to do so. Hard to believe.
Not ONE of the animals you’ve just mentioned goes WITHOUT BEING CLEARLY SEEN on a daily basis. Understand?
You need to prove that they don't exist. Except you can't.
Thousands have seen them, but only a fraction bother to report them.
It would be cooler than it would be dangerous imo but its absolute bollocks. No dog walker has ever been attacked by one, no one has ever found the body of one. Its absolute rubbish guys.
Not worth your time commenting then. Have a great day.
The old keyboard warriors must have a very boring life.
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