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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
A decent big cat report from Bream on the edge of the Forest of Dean and reported to a local wildlife enthusiast:

"She said: “I watched and it was playing in the grass and pouncing. It must have found a mouse or something to play with.

“It looked at me, and I thought then it was a panther. It has piercing eyes and they were very much a feature of the face.”

A man was near walking his dog along the path. She decided to ask him to have a look at the animal she had seen.

She said: “I spoke to the man and asked him to come and have a look at the animal and to see if it was a big cat or if I was going mad. He was like okay yes let us go have a look.

“When we had then got to the gate, and he swore and then said ‘its a big cat’. Before he was a little dismissive, then we both watched it walk away into another field."

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/local-news/big-cat-huge-swishing-tail-9172106
 
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catseye said:
What were the results? Sorry, I haven't read this month's edition yet and it might take me a while to get round to it.

I know that humans are notoriously bad at estimating size.
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That experiment is not in the article and checking with Charles the results have never been published but basically people are crap at size estimations.
 
Paul_Exeter said:
:) A decent big cat report from Bream on the edge of the Forest of Dean and reported to a local wildlife enthusiast:

"She said: “I watched and it was playing in the grass and pouncing. It must have found a mouse or something to play with.

“It looked at me, and I thought then it was a panther. It has piercing eyes and they were very much a feature of the face.”

A man was near walking his dog along the path. She decided to ask him to have a look at the animal she had seen.

She said: “I spoke to the man and asked him to come and have a look at the animal and to see if it was a big cat or if I was going mad. He was like okay yes let us go have a look.

“When we had then got to the gate, and he swore and then said ‘its a big cat’. Before he was a little dismissive, then we both watched it walk away into another field."

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/local-news/big-cat-huge-swishing-tail-9172106
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Agghh. This is so annoying. No picture, she wishes to remain anonymous and doesn't have the other person's name.
 
Druk said:
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Anyone near to this rescue agency? I would love if one of us could verify it. For some reason, the picture looks odd. It might be the juxtaposition of small food bowls (it is a swan enclosure) with the large cat.

It is also April 1st. A charity fundraising joke?

It would be interesting if they have a follow up story when it is transferred to its new habitat.
 
brownmane said:
Anyone near to this rescue agency? I would love if one of us could verify it. For some reason, the picture looks odd. It might be the juxtaposition of small food bowls (it is a swan enclosure) with the large cat.

It is also April 1st. A charity fundraising joke?

It would be interesting if they have a follow up story when it is transferred to its new habitat.
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It’s an April fools joke :hoff:
 
brownmane said:
Agghh. This is so annoying. No picture, she wishes to remain anonymous and doesn't have the other person's name.
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True, but it was reported to a named individual:

"Big cat enthusiast and wildlife expert, Frank Tunbridge, 76, from Podsmead said: "I had a call from a lady who was on holiday in The Forest of Dean. She told me how in the summer at around 1.30pm - 2pm, as she was walking along a road adjacent to a church and churchyard."

... and he has a contact address:

https://find-and-update.company-inf...cers/LlbDIY-SyFOY3BcrdQoi5TLlrQ8/appointments

So a bit more credible than an anonymous Reddit post
 
brownmane said:
I did wonder. I actually googled the sanctuary to see if it exists. It does. The story wasn't updated as far as I could see to say April Fools! So there was an inkling of doubt. :)
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Initially I was really excited, knew it was the ultimate proof, then I looked again and it’s a bit iffy, possibly a stuffed toy.
 
Eyespy said:
Initially I was really excited, knew it was the ultimate proof, then I looked again and it’s a bit iffy, possibly a stuffed toy.
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The cat looks real to me (the eyes). It might have been photo-shopped.
 
If that cat was found as an RTA in the UK every bic cat "expert" in the land would have been discussing it somewhere in the media, the report is a fake
 
ABC Filmed near Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
We do get massive feral cats here, so it's most likely one, however there are plenty of areas (including where I live) that have many sightings & stories of ABC's going back decades, that may lend some credibility.

Incredible footage shows 'black panther' bounding through Aussie farm​

A video showing a massive black cat running through the long grass has been watched over 1.2 million times. We spoke to the man behind the camera.​

An Aussie prospector made a surprise discovery near the historic mining town of Ballarat. But it wasn’t a nugget of gold that Angus James stumbled upon last Sunday, but rather what some believe was a "black panther" bounding through the long grass.

“I was metal detecting when I saw the blackness in the paddock. Whatever it was, was quite a big cat of some sort, maybe it had just been eating lots of farmyard mice. But it was moving in a straight line and it had a very heavy run,” the 40-year-old father told Yahoo News.

Since James uploaded the footage to his Gold Coins and Relics Australia social media account the footage has been viewed over 1.2 million times. The slow-motion one minute clip shows what appears to be a large black cat running in front of grain silos and tall trees.
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/incredible-footage-shows-black-panther-bounding-through-aussie-farm-061912581.html
 
Lord Lucan said:
ABC Filmed near Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
We do get massive feral cats here, so it's most likely one, however there are plenty of areas (including where I live) that have many sightings & stories of ABC's going back decades, that may lend some credibility.

Incredible footage shows 'black panther' bounding through Aussie farm​


https://au.news.yahoo.com/incredible-footage-shows-black-panther-bounding-through-aussie-farm-061912581.html
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Wow that is large. I'm going by the height of the grasses at the fence. And the distance and speed it is moving.
 
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