I agree the legs are longer than I would expect in most domestics, perhaps an "oriental" breed, ocicat or bengal or something. But as usual there is nothing to indicate perspective or height context. If it's someone's house cat it's in really athletic condition. I've certainly known dom cats that look like that
As the coat markings that you can just about make out go, I would suggest a Bengal!
You have better software than I do. It's vaguely striped maybe and looks like my sainted departed ocicat Izzy although he was much less energetic than that guy. An ABC photo of what was clearly a bengal was posted a while ago and I'll repeat what I said then - you don't let a $600 cat run around outside.
What about sub cats?
Yeah. I wouldn't look at that silhouette and think russian blue or siamese but cats are so variable.
I somehow missed this post. As photos of proposed lynxes go, this one matches quite nicely. That doesn't mean it's a lynx, but there's nothing I can see in the photo that discounts it.
There's a Bengal which waits for her owner to return that sits right outside my house most nights, long legs, beautifully marked coat and meows like mad when she arrives home. Seems like some owners think the value of their Cat is the friendship they give, rather than their monetary value.
Never mind the proposed lynx, what about the size of that Alpaca on the other side of the tree?
"Ah!" I see it!
Just a domestic Cat stretching it's head to get a better look at something - walks like a domestic Cat too!
They have quite an impressive growl though!
Cat. They couldn't have made the video more grainy if they tried.
But experts say it's a puma. Experts, I tell you. EXPERTS! It says so in The Sun.
I think they're saying is that it's walking alongside the fence. So, they're trying to sell us a forced perspective illusion where a moggie walking atop the fence is claimed to be a big cat walking the other side of the fence. I'd love to know what 'experts' have 'confirmed' that it's a puma. Even were it a big cat, I think you'd be pushed to identify it from that footage.
Even with the terrible quality of the footage, I still definately looks like a cat walking atop a fence, the way it is placing its feet, rather than a larger feline walking the other side, also for anyone that has seen even a photo of a puma or other big cat, they would know how muscular and heavily built they are compared to a moggy.
Exactly.
Like a lot of fortean images and and videos, it's unclear because, were it clear, it would be obvious what it was and would be on news sites. That is to say, there's probably a reason it's not a clear image, but the reason it's on our radar is that it's not a clear image.
For a lurcher sized cat I would say a 2ft long tail would be about average
A lurcher can be the size of a whippet though. 'Lurcher' is pretty much any cross breed which will chase, so, as a size estimator, it's useless.
But in the article I think it was 'Nigel's lurcher', so that's clear as...
Nigel's lurcher is 10 times bigger than the carp Jason caught last year
