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Alien Big Cats ('ABCs')

In your opinion what are alien big cats most likely to be?

  • Escapees from collections, breeding in the UK countryside

    Votes: 57 48.3%
  • A species of endemic British big cat somehow overlooked by science

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Zooform Phenomena - animal-shaped manifestations of paranormal activity

    Votes: 6 5.1%
  • Misidentifications of big dogs, normal cats etc

    Votes: 28 23.7%
  • A big hoax

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Summat else

    Votes: 4 3.4%
  • All of the above

    Votes: 23 19.5%

  • Total voters
    118
Or, more likely, the photographer has changed vantage point.

Unfortunately, the tangle of branches in front of the object don't lend themselves to an easy comparison.

maximus otter
What I'm getting at 'maximous otter,' is that the cats pose/fixed stance, has not altered in both picture's. So if it's the case that the photographer had changed position, the pose you would expect to have altered somewhat... unless it's a fixed hoax.
 
The disc like object on the right is surely some sort of weight similar to an umbrella base.
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Or, more likely, the photographer has changed vantage point.

Unfortunately, the tangle of branches in front of the object don't lend themselves to an easy comparison.

maximus otter
Comparing image #1, with image #2 (size for size) and alignments...
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Another Basingstoke Beast.

FOOTAGE captured by a bewildered Basingstoke resident shows a mystery beast stalking across fields near to town.

The video zooms in on a mysterious brown and black coloured animal that resembles a big cat.

The dog walker spotted the animal yesterday, whilst out walking his dog at Sherborne St. John.

The dog walker’s daughter told the Gazette: “I swear this is a Lynx. I go on that walk a lot, though won’t be going again anytime soon.”

Last year, just four and a half miles away on Manydown Farm, Henrik Winberg also spotted a large feline that has locally been nicknamed as the ‘Basingstoke Beast’.

https://www.basingstokegazette.co.u...esident-spots-big-cat-stalking-across-fields/
 
Er, it's a cat. A big cat, but not a Big Cat.
Yup, agree 'Coastaljames,' normal Cat, it's not in prowl-mode either because it's legs are only taking very short quick normal strides - nowhere near a Big Cat's attitude, or bulk either. Also the witness say's that it was black and brown, but it's seen only in silhouette so don't see how anyone could determine any brown in the mix?
 
A report of a possible 'lynx' sighting in Coombe, Cornwall. It's a poorly written story, padded out with big cat sightings from Australia.
It must be a slow news day.

The animal in question:
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https://www.news.com.au/technology/...e/news-story/5060670e892394ce2ba5506641fb663e
Now this photo compares very favourably... a lot more like the real 'Lynx!'
Certainly far more convincing than some of the 'big cat' encounters that the media are trying to pass off as Lynx etc!


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This one

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-Alsatian-filmed-stalking-Somerset-field.html

Cant judge scale, but the movement and shape look identical to a British Bombay, like mine.

Compare and contrast:


Here's the local news report, with video of the sighting:

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/beast-exmoor-caught-video-one-5399825

Perhaps the ABC of Exmoor is on holiday! Yeovil is in the far southeast of the county, Exmoor is in the far northwest, near the border with Devon.

Lisa and Nathan caught a glimpse of the mysterious animal, which was around 500 yards away, and filmed it to prove they'd seen it

(Image: Kennedy News and Media)
 
I used to live in Yeovil. It's really quite built up and, although surrounded by countryside, there is a LOT of traffic and people around. And I agree, it looks like a llama or a small alpaca.
 
The Mitta Vallery 'panther' has been sighted again in Victoria, Australia. The following is a bit of a fluff piece about big cat sightings, but if nothing more, scroll down to the image of an actual feral cat with a goanna in its mouth just to note how big these animals can get when gone wild. It's easy to see just how they could be mistaken for something more exotic.

Mitta Valley 'panther' sighting the latest chapter in Victoria's big cat legend​

Amanda Dutton was driving home with her kids at about 4.30pm on Saturday afternoon after a day at the football in Mt Beauty, Victoria, when she got the fright of her life.

Key points:

  • A large black cat was spotted darting across the road in the Mitta Valley on Saturday
  • A Victorian government report says ferals are being mistaken for big cats
  • Big cat sightings have been reported around the country for 200 years
She was heading toward Mitta Mitta on a dirt track when she turned the corner and she saw a large black cat jump off the road and into the bush.

"It would have been as high as our kitchen bench," Ms Dutton said.

"It was less than 20 metres away from us and its tail would have been at least a metre long.

"You can call me crazy, but I know what I saw."
A 2012 study by the Victorian government found that it was almost certainly feral cats being spotted in cases like these, but even so the sighting gave Ms Dutton an awful fright.

"We had to pull up because we were so freaked out," she said.

"When we got to the Mitta Brewery I told my friends what happened and they laughed and said it was the Mitta panther."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05...sighting-continues-victorian-legend/100130380
 
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I still dont get it.

We have all these accounts, many have pictures even!

And yet they are of house cats.

Not exactly a rare beast.

Who are all these nut jobs who mistake a pussy for a panther?
 
Id say big domestic cat personally
It probably is a domestic cat, but I'm not totally ready to write this one off, personally. Something in its proportions and colour seem odd to me. Amazona Zoo isn't very far from there. But the only potential South American felid that springs to mind is the jaguarundi, which I tend to think of as having different proportions and posture.
 
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