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Title: Big Cats Loose in UK?
Post by: PhilRich on 02 February 2011, 20:31:42
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20110128/tuk-ex-policeman-in-big-cat-sighting-6323e80.html



Myself & Swmbo both saw a Large Black Panther  beside a hedgerow in a field sloping down to the road just outside Two Bridges on Dartmoor. We were touring the area in 1998 & reported the sighting immediately as it was so close to Habitation. Before anyone asks, we were both stone cold sober & it was DEFINATELY a Panther! The Police took our details but gave the impression they thought we had stayed too long at Buckfast Abbey earlier in the day! ::) ;D
Title: Re: Big Cats Loose in UK?
Post by: the alarming man on 02 February 2011, 20:34:32
i for one belive you mate...there are quite few reported around here :y
Title: Re: Big Cats Loose in UK?
Post by: SJKOO01 on 02 February 2011, 20:35:52
You weren't drunk and looking at a house cat through binoculars were Philrich ?  ::)  ;D
Title: Re: Big Cats Loose in UK?
Post by: PhilRich on 02 February 2011, 20:39:58
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You weren't drunk and looking at a house cat through binoculars were Philrich ?  ::)  ;D
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I didn't wear binoculars then mate, I had 20/20 in both Mark 1's  ;D ;)

I will admit to wearing 'em now tho, can't see the keyboard without 'em! ;D ;D ;D ;)
Title: Re: Big Cats Loose in UK?
Post by: Lazydocker on 02 February 2011, 20:40:11
Yep... There was a guy nutter in the local area many, many years back who went bankrupt and released all of his wild animal collection into the wild so I believe in them.

Plus, SWMBO and I have seen a couple :y :y
Title: Re: Big Cats Loose in UK?
Post by: SJKOO01 on 02 February 2011, 20:43:51
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You weren't drunk and looking at a house cat through binoculars were Philrich ?  ::)  ;D
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I didn't wear binoculars then mate, I had 20/20 in both Mark 1's  ;D ;)

I will admit to wearing 'em now tho, can't see the keyboard without 'em! ;D ;D ;D ;)


I remember my last eye test.  Examiner asked if I could read the third line on the letter board.

"Yes no problem", I said.  "Where is it then?"....  ;D  ;D  ;D
Title: Re: Big Cats Loose in UK?
Post by: Richie London on 02 February 2011, 20:51:25
nice to think they exist in these places, love to see a wild cat

i counted 8 parrots over the park here last yr, and around weybridge there is loads of tropical birds everywhere, they were all let out after the filming of the birds in the 60's adapted to our climate
Title: Re: Big Cats Loose in UK?
Post by: ted_one on 02 February 2011, 20:59:52
Yep, biggest breeding colony of African green parakeets is Bushey Park near Hampton Court, but spreading all over the Southeast  African Greys also. ::)
Title: Re: Big Cats Loose in UK?
Post by: Darth Loo-knee on 02 February 2011, 21:07:11
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Myself & Swmbo both saw a Large Black Panther  beside a hedgerow in a field sloping down to the road just outside Two Bridges on Dartmoor. We were touring the area in 1998 & reported the sighting immediately as it was so close to Habitation. Before anyone asks, we were both stone cold sober & it was DEFINATELY a Panther! The Police took our details but gave the impression they thought we had stayed too long at Buckfast Abbey earlier in the day! ::) ;D


Phyliss, Phyliss, Phyliss..... no one believes you mate...  :-? :-? :o :-/
Title: Re: Big Cats Loose in UK?
Post by: RobG on 02 February 2011, 21:12:17
(http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z257/belisensis/black-panther.jpg)
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Post by: Dishevelled Den on 02 February 2011, 21:14:26
I was driving from Chobham over to Lyne not so long ago when a wallaby hopped across the road in front of the car.

I knew it was a wallaby as the local constabulary had been looking for it for a long time following various reports - had escaped from some circus or other.
Title: Re: Big Cats Loose in UK?
Post by: PhilRich on 02 February 2011, 21:17:29
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Myself & Swmbo both saw a Large Black Panther  beside a hedgerow in a field sloping down to the road just outside Two Bridges on Dartmoor. We were touring the area in 1998 & reported the sighting immediately as it was so close to Habitation. Before anyone asks, we were both stone cold sober & it was DEFINATELY a Panther! The Police took our details but gave the impression they thought we had stayed too long at Buckfast Abbey earlier in the day! ::) ;D


Phyliss, Phyliss, Phyliss..... no one believes you mate...  :-? :-? :o :-/
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Don't they!!!! :o
I bet they believe you carry the bananas home from the supermarket in your keks though! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :y
Title: Re: Big Cats Loose in UK?
Post by: Banjax on 02 February 2011, 21:29:38
did you know that a Panther isn't actually a specific animal - its just any large cat that happens to be all black (or pink of course)  :y

courtesy QI ages ago  ;)
Title: Re: Big Cats Loose in UK?
Post by: PhilRich on 02 February 2011, 21:32:50
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did you know that a Panther isn't actually a specific animal - its just any large cat that happens to be all black (or pink of course)  :y

courtesy QI ages ago  ;)



Actually B, no I didn't know that :y
But I do know I wouldn't have argued the point with the bugger we saw! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)
Title: Re: Big Cats Loose in UK?
Post by: the alarming man on 02 February 2011, 22:22:03
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Yep, biggest breeding colony of African green parakeets is Bushey Park near Hampton Court, but spreading all over the Southeast  African Greys also. ::)

African greys...they are worth hundreds..well a couple at least   :y
Title: Re: Big Cats Loose in UK?
Post by: Nickbat on 02 February 2011, 22:58:00
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Yep, biggest breeding colony of African green parakeets is Bushey Park near Hampton Court, but spreading all over the Southeast  African Greys also. ::)

African greys...they are worth hundreds..well a couple at least   :y


What happened to the Norwegian Blues?  ;) ;D ;D
Title: Re: Big Cats Loose in UK?
Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 03 February 2011, 10:55:02
I am sure there are big cats in the wild across the UK as since the 1960s I can remember reports of so many sightings as to make it certain they exist.

In fact I rather love the thought that they are all out their somewhere as part of countrylife.  Africe in the UK wild; how wonderful! 8-) 8-) 8-) :y :y
Title: Re: Big Cats Loose in UK?
Post by: Richie London on 03 February 2011, 11:55:49
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Yep, biggest breeding colony of African green parakeets is Bushey Park near Hampton Court, but spreading all over the Southeast  African Greys also. ::)

African greys...they are worth hundreds..well a couple at least   :y


my mate paid a grand for his affrican grey.
Title: Re: Big Cats Loose in UK?
Post by: Richie London on 03 February 2011, 12:03:13
i forgot i see this a few weeks ago when i was walking past the canal.  ::)



(http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj182/richierich1961/P1010041.jpg)