marhawkman
Justified & Ancient
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Part of the reason I'm on team floof, is that there are in fact many pictures claimed to be monstrously large felines. and many of them are apparently just floofs.Apropros of all those who say 'if there were big cats out there, we would have good photographs of them'. Today I was out running and a weasel ran out of the hedge opposite me, into the road in front of me. It stopped, looked at me, and then ran off into the hedge on the other side of the road.
I didn't have time to get my camera out (it was in my pocket), and there was nobody else around. I know weasels are small and elusive, but they definitely exist. But if it was down to me, you would never know they were real creatures, I only ever see them very fleetingly and without time to get a camera out and pointing the right way.
So I can fully understand how a rare, fast and not often appearing to people creature may remain unphotographed, even quite a big one.
Thing is, each claimed sighting needs it's own explanation. We don't start out knowing the case fits into the same category as any previous case until we check. One sighting might just be the neighbor's cat, one might be a dog, another might be a Catamount that escaped a cage. You need to check each case and judge on it's own merits..