Big Cat

[Monsta®]

Monsta you seem to be a bit stuck with this extinct 2500 yrs business, according to reports there seem to be thousands still living in the wild. So this means...now let me think.....ahhh....yes they are not extinct :lol:

not in europe but you will find they are extinct in the uk! (apart for 1 or 2 escapees!)

[mercuryg]

not in europe but you will find they are extinct in the uk! (apart for 1 or 2 escapees!)

You're absolutely right, Monsta, the native Lynx is extinct in England and the UK, just as the Wildcat is extinct in England.

However, 'one or two escapees' is an uneducated guess.

As long ago as the 1920's there were known to be three Lynx living together in Scotland; did they breed? In the mid 70's a young Puma cub was shot near London. It was almost a new born, indicationg its parents were still at large (they were never found). The number of sightings of cats alien to our country (that means native to another, not from outer space) over the past 50 years include positive identifcations of an Ocelot in the early 1990's, seen repeatedly in a part of Surrey, if I remember rightly, and many instances of smaller alien cats and even a clouded leopard.

These aren't just tentative assumptions - these are actual, recorded sightings. Given that it was very trendy in the late 1960's among the wealthy to own exotic pets (the famous Harrods store had a pet shop specialisin in them, and a story goes a gentleman once requested a camel; 'One hump, or two?' was the assitants reply) and there are records of many purchases of Lynx, Puma, Jungle cats and more from both Harrods and other stores, where did they all go when, suddenly, owners were required to have an expensive licence following the Dangerous Animals Act in 1976? Very few instances of zoos accepting such animals - animals that existed as we know from sales receipts - yet suddenly nobody owned them! Where, again, did they go?

It's a subject that raises many questions, yet provides few answers; what is certain, and even the most sceptical of commentators admits so, is that there are lynx, puma, ocelot and more living in the wild in England. How many is unknown.

[Merlin]

Monsta ya a wind up merchant, even you can't be that thick!

[Monsta®]

its al a heap of !*!@# theres no fn big cats out there just big domestic cats like.....

about the same size as a lynx!

[mercuryg]

its al a heap of !*!@# theres no fn big cats out there just big domestic cats like.....

about the same size as a lynx!

You wouldn't let that !*!@# out of the house, far too valuable! Would make a nice jumper.

[Monsta®]

another sighting near the golf course only some one had a camera this time!..........

which ones rarer bigfoot or ronald mcdonald!

[Merlin]

Another sighting, but this time of two big hairy poosees leaving the golf course

[Malcolm Robinson]

which ones rarer bigfoot or ronald mcdonald!

Ronald isn't that good with kids.........

[Pete]

There poping up on golf courses everywhere:

http://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/news/local/big_cat_sightings_reported_on_golf_course_1_596626

[Merlin]

There poping up on golf courses everywhere:

http://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/news/local/big_cat_sightings_reported_on_golf_course_1_596626

SSHHHHHH! Don't tell monsta, he thinks they are all extinct!

[Monsta®]

one thing it says it cant be a dog cause they cant climb trees!

watch this!

[Pete]

one thing it says it cant be a dog cause they cant climb trees!

watch this!

Thats a hybread that escaped from the circus Monsta.

[Pete]

Tiger who?

[Merlin]

Nice one Pete :lol:

[Pete]

Nice one Pete :lol:

Anymore sightings Merlin or has the trail gone cold?

[Merlin]

Anymore sightings Merlin or has the trail gone cold?

One more Pete though this one not a golfer, bloke over heard me talking to a mate in the paper shop, about the cats he says he was driving past golf course and nearly crashed his car when a big cat ran across the road in front of him, swears blind it wasn't a fox as he has seen plenty of them in his time. Same as the others didn't want to say owt before, in case of ridicule!

[Pete]

One more Pete though this one not a golfer, bloke over heard me talking to a mate in the paper shop, about the cats he says he was driving past golf course and nearly crashed his car when a big cat ran across the road in front of him, swears blind it wasn't a fox as he has seen plenty of them in his time. Same as the others didn't want to say owt before, in case of ridicule!

Yes I can understand people not wanting to say anything but if the evidence is that strong and it does appear to be so, why not inform the BBC they at least might investigate

[Monsta®]

Yes I can understand people not wanting to say anything but if the evidence is that strong and it does appear to be so, why not inform the BBC they at least might investigate

good idea! i can see chris packham getting attacked know !

[Pete]

good idea! i can see chris packham getting attacked know !

He certainly did in last Thursdays show, the Pole cat gave him a good bite.

[Malcolm Robinson]

Pole cat Pete?????

[Pete]

Pole cat Pete?????

Gooden Malcolm

[Pete]

SSHHHHHH! Don't tell monsta, he thinks they are all extinct!

He could be right according to this news artical

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11586279

[mercuryg]

He could be right according to this news artical

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11586279

That's the Iberian Lynx, unique to the Iberian Peninsular. The Eurpoean Lynx is quite common.In Europe, that is.

[Pete]

That's the Iberian Lynx, unique to the Iberian Peninsular. The Eurpoean Lynx is quite common.In Europe, that is.

Still say the BBC is worth a punt just to get to the bottom of this.

[Monsta®]

Still say the BBC is worth a punt just to get to the bottom of this.

did you watch autumn watch last night? chris packham even said while he was talking about deer "there are no lynx in the uk" something to do with deer having no preditors in the uk! watch it on iplayer if you missed it!

i dont recall if it was autumn watch or unsprung!!! think i was unsprung the bit with the confused deers