Are Big Cats Roaming The UK? - 18/08/2023

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  • @patricktracey7424
    @patricktracey7424 Рік тому +40

    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.

    • @babylonsburning1
      @babylonsburning1 6 місяців тому +4

      Why are the police/authorites surpressing this type of evidence?

    • @hbuabusy4414
      @hbuabusy4414 4 місяці тому +3

      @@babylonsburning1if the police/government admit to there being big cats /Pumas leopards the government then would have to compensate for all the sheep cows ect that are found dead every year which would be expensive also it’s would send fear through out England

    • @andy-the-gardener
      @andy-the-gardener 2 місяці тому

      @@hbuabusy4414 true that the governmint are hiding the evidence, like aliens, ghosts, god, nessie etc

    • @happymaskedguy1943
      @happymaskedguy1943 2 місяці тому

      Some fresh sightings recently around Ben More recently. Must say I’m very taken with seeing one, as I live in the area.

    • @johnmead8437
      @johnmead8437 2 місяці тому

      @@hbuabusy4414 Why would the Govt have to compensate for killed prey? What reason? And why would it send fear throughout England? Since it seems very good at keeping a low profile, good enough for no really good evidence to exist. Given the quantity of reports it does seem odd none have been killed and recovered. Sensationalist fake news is a Trump disinformation trait, not a realistic one, and conspiracies are rarer than their theorists' cults.
      The possibility of a couple of individuals being released is finite, but it's clear they are not established or resident anywhere. While probably difficult to see for most, they have a couple of traits that make their presence clear (one would be insufferable to many), and those are not detected or reported. And trail camera footage is straightforward to get, and absent. Apart from the type shown here, which sorry, isn't a leopard.

  • @prometheus_beard
    @prometheus_beard Рік тому +11

    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!

  • @garybarnes556
    @garybarnes556 9 місяців тому +6

    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%

  • @norm3769
    @norm3769 Рік тому +14

    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

  • @Jp67-n6b
    @Jp67-n6b Рік тому +21

    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.

    • @susandavey2361
      @susandavey2361 Рік тому +10

      There is wild wallibies in the UK I think 🤔

    • @Jp67-n6b
      @Jp67-n6b Рік тому +7

      @@susandavey2361 yes there are, many sightings too.

    • @pamelabowden3017
      @pamelabowden3017 Рік тому +1

      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.

    • @michaelfleming9757
      @michaelfleming9757 Рік тому +1

      The is wallabies in the Isle of man

    • @trevorclarey3336
      @trevorclarey3336 5 місяців тому +1

      I've seen them ,I live in wales .

  • @paulfletcher3998
    @paulfletcher3998 Рік тому +21

    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.

    • @healthiswealth1452
      @healthiswealth1452 Рік тому +1

      Did you call anyone to report it?

    • @matthewsexton6176
      @matthewsexton6176 Рік тому +2

      @@healthiswealth1452 so if it wasn’t reported it didn’t happen? Brilliant teachings this 🤦‍♂️

    • @healthiswealth1452
      @healthiswealth1452 Рік тому +4

      @@matthewsexton6176 the classic 2023 passive aggressive question to a simple question

    • @matthewsexton6176
      @matthewsexton6176 Рік тому +3

      @@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?

    • @healthiswealth1452
      @healthiswealth1452 Рік тому

      @@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

  • @truthfactreality6814
    @truthfactreality6814 Рік тому +16

    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

    • @healthiswealth1452
      @healthiswealth1452 Рік тому +2

      Assume you reported it to daera

    • @truthfactreality6814
      @truthfactreality6814 Рік тому

      @@healthiswealth1452 no I don’t really know who to report to. What is this ?

    • @healthiswealth1452
      @healthiswealth1452 Рік тому +2

      @@truthfactreality6814 if you thought you really saw a panther you would have atleast called the police, stop lying to yourself

    • @truthfactreality6814
      @truthfactreality6814 Рік тому +1

      @@healthiswealth1452 hahahaa. Nope. I saw it. You are the problem. Get a job

    • @JALtravelsabout
      @JALtravelsabout Рік тому

      What's worse now is they have DNA evidence to prove that they do exist

  • @ryiin
    @ryiin Рік тому +9

    Good to see Rick on TV.

  • @arthunter92
    @arthunter92 3 місяці тому +2

    In the early 2000’s I saw a big cat in Highwoods in Colchester. It was about 20 foot up in a tree and on seeing me jumped from the tree and ran off into the wood. At the time I had no idea what type of cat it was until I later identified it as a Caracal after seeing one on a nature documentary…

    • @Cryptidswildfoodoutdoors
      @Cryptidswildfoodoutdoors 2 місяці тому +1

      There was a photo taken of what seems to be a caracal recently that I analysed. Would be great to hear more.

  • @tristanmorgan852
    @tristanmorgan852 5 місяців тому +2

    I've seen one about 25 years ago it was a panther and it effortlessly jumped over a fence just after I put my light onto it. We would go camping and see the eyes more than the animal as there very easily hidden

  • @simonbradburn
    @simonbradburn Рік тому +8

    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.

    • @itsoccamsrazor
      @itsoccamsrazor Рік тому

      what species specifically?

    • @simonbradburn
      @simonbradburn Рік тому +3

      @@itsoccamsrazor In my opinion a panther but definitely a cat

    • @Vdb___
      @Vdb___ 9 місяців тому +2

      Mate, I saw a panther today on Cannock Chase

    • @alandavies1054
      @alandavies1054 7 місяців тому +3

      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.

    • @simonbradburn
      @simonbradburn 7 місяців тому +2

      I know the feeling people think i mistook it for a dog.

  • @davinahall4915
    @davinahall4915 3 місяці тому +2

    My husband & I rented a holiday home for a week in Norfolk 2015 id heard a lot about the black panther cat sighting throughout the yrs but my husband who’s from pontefract didn’t know anything about it..
    One morning he woke before the kids & I, he walked our dog a whippet through all the nearby fields & when he came back he said he had just seen a massive black cat in the fields, he couldn’t see our dog running through as the grass or whatever was growing in the fields were higher than our dog but he could clearly see a huge black cat & its tail
    Then I went on to tell him
    About the sighting, he said he had 100% just seen it
    But we didn’t report it
    We found a number on the internet to ring but we couldn’t ever get through to it
    My husband oftern mentions it
    He definitely saw it, he would never ever make it up

  • @laurasearch4155
    @laurasearch4155 Рік тому +9

    I have seen a big cat the other day, i was watching the jungle book 😂

  • @mrfishmon5517
    @mrfishmon5517 Рік тому +4

    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

  • @jacobread9650
    @jacobread9650 День тому

    i saw a large black cat near benson air field once. about 400 yards from my car as i was driving down the road, it snuck into the hedgerow. i pulled over to look for it but it was gone.

  • @logic1695
    @logic1695 Рік тому +9

    is andy peters a vampire cuz he never seems to age

  • @desiangrezifoodie
    @desiangrezifoodie Рік тому +12

    Big Cat Conversations is an excellent podcast, one of my favourites.

  • @SobrietyandSolace
    @SobrietyandSolace 3 місяці тому +2

    Most of them seem to be leopards, lynxes etc but the Quantocks one looks like a bloody jaguar

    • @Cryptidswildfoodoutdoors
      @Cryptidswildfoodoutdoors 2 місяці тому +1

      I've read somewhere else of a jaguar being seen. Have you seen it yourself?

  • @AaronTelfordUK
    @AaronTelfordUK 6 місяців тому +1

    In 2006 the Shropshire Star newspaper published 2 articles reporting Big Cat sightings in Telford. The sightings were between Dawley, Hinkshay and Telford Town Park. I still have those 2 articles and recorded a video talking about them on my UA-cam channel.
    I've since talked to a guy who lives in Dawley who had his own sighting in a different part of Dawley.

  • @CatsandJP
    @CatsandJP Рік тому +5

    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…

  • @Nelsonsridesandattractions
    @Nelsonsridesandattractions 7 місяців тому +6

    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

    • @Mantis_X
      @Mantis_X 7 місяців тому +2

      I believe this. I've seen one, Staffordshire

    • @Nelsonsridesandattractions
      @Nelsonsridesandattractions 7 місяців тому +1

      @@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

    • @Mantis_X
      @Mantis_X 7 місяців тому +1

      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.

    • @Mantis_X
      @Mantis_X 7 місяців тому +1

      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 🤣

    • @Nelsonsridesandattractions
      @Nelsonsridesandattractions 7 місяців тому +1

      @@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 🤦‍♂️

  • @kevinwebb6338
    @kevinwebb6338 Рік тому +9

    I once saw a Lynx, as I was traveling along the M4

  • @MikeStarKaraokeUK
    @MikeStarKaraokeUK Рік тому +2

    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.

    • @bas4903
      @bas4903 6 місяців тому

      A sheep OR dog? Can't you tell the difference?

  • @RobertSwift-i6w
    @RobertSwift-i6w Місяць тому +1

    i saw a black cat in tamworth a few years ago on the way to work, I d rove over the railway line as i entered the brickworks and glanced down the line towards Burton. I immediately stopped and reversed onto the bridge ,looked down at the cat who looked towards me then turned,jumped over the fence into the undergrowth and dissappeared. It wasnt a domestic cat or a dog, i believe it was a big cat. The only thing that dispels all these theories is that adead body of an old animal has never been found or indeed the odds of one being involved in a vehicle accident but i know I definately saw one

    • @edwardtreadwell3859
      @edwardtreadwell3859 29 днів тому

      Is that the sighting near Dosthill, Tamworth?.
      All the Tamworth area has had sightings for a great many years.

  • @carolinemortimore588
    @carolinemortimore588 Рік тому +2

    I saw one in Dorset this year

  • @seamusoflatcap
    @seamusoflatcap Рік тому +7

    Plenty of cougars in Manchester on a Saturday night.

  • @C_Xx7xX
    @C_Xx7xX Рік тому +3

    There would be carcasses all across the countryside if they were out there...

    • @S.Trades
      @S.Trades Рік тому +5

      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.

  • @happyandblessed5640
    @happyandblessed5640 Рік тому +6

    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.

    • @S.Trades
      @S.Trades Рік тому +1

      Exciting!

    • @itsoccamsrazor
      @itsoccamsrazor Рік тому

      absolute bollocks

    • @S.Trades
      @S.Trades Рік тому

      It was probably a female, trying to attract a male....

    • @S.Trades
      @S.Trades Рік тому +2

      It was probably a female, calling out for any potential mates. That's how they attract a mate.

    • @itsoccamsrazor
      @itsoccamsrazor Рік тому

      yeah sure , we have cougars and black leopards, delusional
      @@S.Trades

  • @JamieVauxnut1
    @JamieVauxnut1 Рік тому +2

    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

  • @animalian01
    @animalian01 2 місяці тому +1

    I worked in Buxted in Sussex, in the 1990's, I worked on a farm ,I was driving a tractor up a hill towards the lane, from one of the furthest fields from the farm, a good two miles, I got out the tractor to open the gate so I could drive out, when I noticed an animal walking across the field into the hedge, it was about 600 yards away from me, it had a tawny colour and a long tail that arched down and then level to the ground, I immediately thought that looks like a female lion, we had a flock of about 1200 sheep occasionally we found them dead and parts eaten we thought it was foxes, but you never know

    • @johnmead8437
      @johnmead8437 2 місяці тому

      600 yards away. Right, a lioness.....

    • @animalian01
      @animalian01 2 місяці тому

      @johnmead8437 yes because in an open field that you can see from one side to the other and I can see sheep, that I know what size they are, and the animal was larger and longer. I am not saying it was a lion but sure wasn't a domestic cat or a fox.

    • @edwardtreadwell3859
      @edwardtreadwell3859 29 днів тому

      Probably a Puma. They are seen often in Sussex.

  • @matthewsexton6176
    @matthewsexton6176 Рік тому +2

    I saw one in Shepton Mallet 2 years ago. It ran across the road. Wish I had a dash cam

    • @healthiswealth1452
      @healthiswealth1452 Рік тому

      Didn't think to call the police and report a panther 😂

    • @matthewsexton6176
      @matthewsexton6176 Рік тому +1

      @@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.

    • @matthewsexton6176
      @matthewsexton6176 Рік тому +2

      @@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 😂

  • @MandolinsAndPangolins
    @MandolinsAndPangolins 3 місяці тому

    My best memory of Andy Peters, "and now, for the first time on network television, Masters of the Universe!"....

  • @ArranVid
    @ArranVid Рік тому +2

    The blonde woman is right, the attacks on her livestock strongly suggest that big cats do exist.

  • @lolsaXx
    @lolsaXx 11 місяців тому +1

    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.

  • @billbobaggins7542
    @billbobaggins7542 Рік тому +3

    I see 100% lynx in hollaway london

  • @Kari_B61ex
    @Kari_B61ex Рік тому +7

    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.

    • @warrendchild
      @warrendchild Рік тому

      Cheers for that. Have you ever seen Manbearpig?

  • @aka99
    @aka99 9 місяців тому +2

    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????

    • @edwardtreadwell3859
      @edwardtreadwell3859 8 місяців тому +2

      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.

  • @trevorclarey3336
    @trevorclarey3336 5 місяців тому +6

    I film foxes every night on my phone , that's because they do exist unlike the pink panther .

    • @SobrietyandSolace
      @SobrietyandSolace 3 місяці тому

      You act like big cats haven’t been released and captured in this country for decades

    • @trevorclarey3336
      @trevorclarey3336 3 місяці тому +2

      @@SobrietyandSolace show me one .

  • @thebrummierailenthusiasts5329
    @thebrummierailenthusiasts5329 Рік тому +6

    Certainly they can especially jaguars which they like the panthers in black fur they are the ones that have been spotted

  • @borderlinechamps519
    @borderlinechamps519 Рік тому +4

    This has been real for so many years..

    • @healthiswealth1452
      @healthiswealth1452 Рік тому +1

      Yet nobody has caught on on camera that doesn't look like a normal black cat

    • @edwardtreadwell3859
      @edwardtreadwell3859 11 місяців тому +2

      ​@@healthiswealth1452Wrong!!. Just do some research.

  • @issimondias
    @issimondias 3 місяці тому +1

    It’s odd that nearly every single person in the UK is walking around with a camera on them at all times, but there’s yet to be a decent photo of the big cats that are allegedly everywhere.

    • @johnmead8437
      @johnmead8437 2 місяці тому

      If they can get decent photos of the common fox at 50% of encounters, the observation might be valid. Once that's mastered, try improving by getting photos of stoats, or the true wild cat. Both species far more common than any figment leopard pride. What is telling is that getting photos of the latter species using trail cams is straightforward, as it is if a big cat is actually in a location. And have yet to see anything convincing, nothing, including the photo shown in this video. And incidentally, hoaxing DNA is easily enough done. Select enough experts one can find one that proves a theory. A classic being an Aussie thylacine expert misrepresenting a very clear trail cam cat photo the cult supported. And having a cat "expert" (SPCA or something) confirm it wasn't a cat. Unbelievable.

    • @issimondias
      @issimondias 2 місяці тому

      @@johnmead8437 They base a lot of their claims on a few hairs that an expert stated MAY be from something in the Panthera Genus.
      So there we are, cast iron proof that they’re all around us and have been for decades.

  • @vinnyvincent2862
    @vinnyvincent2862 Рік тому +1

    I often walk the countryside and although I haven't seen any big cats ! I do see big red circles now and again ! 🤯

    • @LettieLoop
      @LettieLoop 9 місяців тому

      What are the big red circles?

    • @vinnyvincent2862
      @vinnyvincent2862 9 місяців тому

      @@LettieLoop The opposite of big red arrows ! never mind, I was being facetious ! 🤭

  • @tccharlston6212
    @tccharlston6212 Рік тому +4

    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

  • @michaelfleming9757
    @michaelfleming9757 Рік тому +2

    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.

  • @obryan240
    @obryan240 Рік тому +1

    That one walking by the swan certainly looked K9 to me.

  • @ArranVid
    @ArranVid Рік тому +2

    7:53 That's a black leopard/panther

  • @ArranVid
    @ArranVid Рік тому +1

    8:45 If that was taken in the UK, then yeah that's a big cat too.

  • @po3ticjusticemusic381
    @po3ticjusticemusic381 Рік тому +1

    I want too believe they are here but not until I see one myself! I live in Kent

    • @S.Trades
      @S.Trades Рік тому +2

      Ypu will probably never see one but that changes nothing. Very few people ever do.

    • @tonycritcher3419
      @tonycritcher3419 11 днів тому

      I saw a black leopard in Kent about 30 years ago at the bottom of Stick Hill near Edenbridge as it leisurely crossed the road one evening. A few years earlier, at nearby Cowden, on farmland, I found a print, larger than the badgers on a muddy woodland path. And also heard a large cat like scream on the same farm at a later date one evening out walking with my dog, he had gone off for a look around as he did as he had worked on the farm before he was given to me. When I heard that 'scream' I turned around to see Jet running back to me, he had his tail between his legs and fear in his eyes, so had seen something I hadn't! He was used to foxes and badgers that would enter the barns to eat spilt cow pellets. So it wasn't until I saw the leopard near Edenbridge that I assume, he had seen something similar, and the sound I heard is one I'd never heard before, or since. I went back a number of times after we moved away to camp and see if I could hear or see anything out of the ordinary. But only managed to see quite a few foxes and on one occasion a badger. Both of which I would see frequently whilst walking or working on the farm. In the late 80's I also saw a lynx type cat running down a hill along a stone wall in North Wales. I am glad that we have these cats in the UK. I don't believe they are a great risk to people. I think more likely a wild boar would be more to worry about, especially if they have young or feel they can't run away. It's just a case of being aware and sensible.

  • @Adelefan123
    @Adelefan123 Рік тому +2

    Omg that is so scary 😱

  • @ChimpsyIbrahim
    @ChimpsyIbrahim 5 місяців тому

    I adopted a Puma cross with a Siamese he is a hunter .

  • @ArranVid
    @ArranVid Рік тому +1

    The blonde woman is attractive.

  • @SP-ru3rs
    @SP-ru3rs Рік тому +19

    Ive seen one. 100% they are roaming the uk.

    • @Onslaught17
      @Onslaught17 Рік тому

      Explain the sighting to me. I’ll then tell you if it was infact a big cat or not.

    • @healthiswealth1452
      @healthiswealth1452 Рік тому

      Hes lying

    • @matthewsexton6176
      @matthewsexton6176 Рік тому +3

      @@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 👮‍♂️ 👍🏻🤦‍♂️

    • @healthiswealth1452
      @healthiswealth1452 Рік тому +3

      @@matthewsexton6176 why would he have called the police or daera after seeing a potential dangerous animal on the loose

    • @matthewsexton6176
      @matthewsexton6176 Рік тому +4

      @@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

  • @foysollee750
    @foysollee750 2 місяці тому

    Some people are such a deluded. They have some weird fantasy.

  • @bas4903
    @bas4903 6 місяців тому +1

    If there are so many species of these big cats are around wouldn't there be way more attacks on livestock? After all you don't really have the big prey items in Britain

    • @edwardtreadwell3859
      @edwardtreadwell3859 4 місяці тому +2

      We have plenty of big cats in the UK. Deer, Foxes, Badgers, Rabbits, Hares, Pheasants etc etc provide the food, and the occasional Sheep.

  • @sherimillman53
    @sherimillman53 Рік тому +6

    Love andy peters natural fun and he keeps it real 😊

  • @GeorgeLilly-d3t
    @GeorgeLilly-d3t 3 місяці тому

    If there was any they would be so deep in forests ect would never find or see them

  • @calmck3164
    @calmck3164 5 місяців тому +4

    They have dma from.a big cat on a half eaten sheep so its fact.

  • @N-Unekistam
    @N-Unekistam 5 місяців тому

    Take environmental DNA from the tracks in the snow in the winter.

  • @dott8348
    @dott8348 Рік тому +1

    Someone needs to go find them

  • @stever4181
    @stever4181 Рік тому +3

    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.

  • @manpreetbrar838
    @manpreetbrar838 3 місяці тому

    The black panthers have now gone global.

  • @gch9857
    @gch9857 Рік тому +2

    Yes they are. I came across a Black Panther while walking my dog in Aylestone Meadows, Leicester back in 2014.

  • @esconis5304
    @esconis5304 3 місяці тому

    Sorry but the video at 6:00 is definitely a dog, you can clearly see its a black cockapoo. That doesn't mean they're not out there

  • @bertyaustin
    @bertyaustin Рік тому +1

    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 😂

    • @S.Trades
      @S.Trades Рік тому +1

      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.

  • @lucyobrien1617
    @lucyobrien1617 Рік тому +1

    Why did this so called expert Keep referring to them as "black panthers"

    • @edwardtreadwell3859
      @edwardtreadwell3859 8 місяців тому +1

      Because that is the common name for them throughout the World.

    • @lucyobrien1617
      @lucyobrien1617 Місяць тому

      ​​@@edwardtreadwell3859 It's an incorrect name for them. There is no such thing as a black panther. The definition of 'panther' is a melanistic leopard or jaguar. Panthers ARE black. The correct term is a black leopard/jaguar or a panther. Calling it a 'black' panther is incorrect and it is just a repetition 😂

    • @edwardtreadwell3859
      @edwardtreadwell3859 Місяць тому +1

      @@lucyobrien1617 Black Panther is a perfectly acceptable term used worldwide to describe a melanistic large cat. Only when it has been identified fully can it be described as a Black Leopard or Black Jaguar.
      You obviously need to do more research!.

    • @lucyobrien1617
      @lucyobrien1617 12 днів тому

      ​​@@edwardtreadwell3859It is an incorrect term. You need to do some more research, not me. Again, a panther IS a melanistic leopard or a jaguar. Panthers are black. The term panther is correct or black leopard or jaguar.

    • @edwardtreadwell3859
      @edwardtreadwell3859 12 днів тому

      @lucyobrien1617 Black Panther is a widely accepted description of large melanistic cats across the world. It's you that needs to do the research.

  • @erikf4326
    @erikf4326 Рік тому +1

    if there are leopards here you could track them by the missing dogs as they are the preferred prey.

  • @100percent3
    @100percent3 8 місяців тому +1

    What the hell is she wearing?

  • @juliecrowe5252
    @juliecrowe5252 Рік тому +1

    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

    • @S.Trades
      @S.Trades Рік тому

      How could you mistake a domestic cat for a "big cat" approaching you? Seems very unlikely.

    • @juliecrowe5252
      @juliecrowe5252 Рік тому

      @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

  • @jacobread9650
    @jacobread9650 День тому

    arm day is everyday

  • @element_flash7452
    @element_flash7452 5 місяців тому +1

    Big cats arnt in the uk 🤣

  • @justinbentley5880
    @justinbentley5880 Місяць тому

    A black panther is not a species of cat. it's a black leapord or jaguar and the chances of them being black is 1 in 20. utter bollox

  • @Onslaught17
    @Onslaught17 Рік тому +1

    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?

    • @S.Trades
      @S.Trades Рік тому +2

      I think you mean "elusive"? And generally, anywhere that can support deer, can also support a big/lesser cat.

    • @Onslaught17
      @Onslaught17 Рік тому

      @@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.

    • @Onslaught17
      @Onslaught17 Рік тому

      @@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.

    • @S.Trades
      @S.Trades Рік тому

      @@Onslaught17 who do you think you are talking to?

    • @Onslaught17
      @Onslaught17 Рік тому

      @@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?

  • @Barrybullthiefpouters
    @Barrybullthiefpouters Рік тому +1

    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

    • @100percent3
      @100percent3 8 місяців тому +1

      Should have concentrated at school mate.
      Learn to spell and write.

  • @bjarnyg
    @bjarnyg 8 місяців тому +1

    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...?

    • @mancuniancandidatem
      @mancuniancandidatem 3 місяці тому

      They just reported finding leopard DNA on a dead sheep carcass in the UK.

  • @Milanushka_tvAi
    @Milanushka_tvAi Рік тому +2

    Wondering snow 54

  • @jamiestevens5737
    @jamiestevens5737 5 місяців тому +1

    Is this cctv from crime watch?

  • @Teaandcrumpets134
    @Teaandcrumpets134 4 місяці тому

    With cats they will be more rats.

  • @F-Hen
    @F-Hen 6 місяців тому +1

    My cousin and my aunt saw one

  • @ArranVid
    @ArranVid Рік тому

    7:51 I mean

  • @BoXnMMAmadness
    @BoXnMMAmadness 4 місяці тому +2

    That’s definitely a dog

  • @r4vr4c
    @r4vr4c Рік тому

    A black panther isn't even an animal, its either a melanistic leopard or jaguar, there is no such animal as a black panther

    • @edwardtreadwell3859
      @edwardtreadwell3859 8 місяців тому

      Yes, there is. Depends where you live in the World.

    • @r4vr4c
      @r4vr4c 8 місяців тому

      @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

    • @edwardtreadwell3859
      @edwardtreadwell3859 8 місяців тому +2

      @@r4vr4c Black Panther is the World recognised term for Black Leopard and Black Jaguar and is fully accepted by Scientists and Naturalists.

    • @r4vr4c
      @r4vr4c 8 місяців тому +1

      @@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.

    • @edwardtreadwell3859
      @edwardtreadwell3859 8 місяців тому

      @@r4vr4c It is an accepted term to describe a Black cat. Stop being so pedantic.

  • @DeiagonismSr
    @DeiagonismSr 9 місяців тому

    We cool if they are black leopards, if they are black Jaguars we are fuked

  • @StalwartShinobi
    @StalwartShinobi Рік тому +3

    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.

    • @S.Trades
      @S.Trades Рік тому +2

      Not worth your time commenting then. Have a great day.

    • @edwardtreadwell3859
      @edwardtreadwell3859 11 місяців тому +1

      The old keyboard warriors must have a very boring life.

  • @Onslaught17
    @Onslaught17 Рік тому +1

    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.

    • @S.Trades
      @S.Trades Рік тому

      And yet presumably you accept that the uk can support millions of deer, yes? Millions of rabbits, rats, pigeons, many thousands of foxes, etc...

    • @Onslaught17
      @Onslaught17 Рік тому

      @@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?

    • @edwardtreadwell3859
      @edwardtreadwell3859 8 місяців тому +1

      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.

  • @warwickhiggs8229
    @warwickhiggs8229 Рік тому +1

    BEAUTIFUL BAGHEERA 🤩