Government Agency Confirms Big Cat Sightings In UK

Hi Ellie Back in 2005 there was a report in our local paper that a women had seen an animal that looked liked a black panther savage a dog.This happened in a place called Ashridge which is run by the National Trust. They dismissed it as foxes. This sighting was never confirmed but i do believe that there is defiantly big cats living wild.

[i][b]good Morning ellie, OMG, that first picture looks like Jr. Maybe these cats are coming down because they may not find something to eat or drink. Or maybe if there are hunter in the area they are scaring them and going toward the public. It be sad to kill one of them. We don't have anything out of the norm, we have seen a possum (not sure of spelling) my neighbor has seen a Raccoon but that about it. be careful and put all your animals inside at night.[/b][/i]

I wonder if these cats escaped from a zoo, a circus, or someone brought a couple over from India and it got loose. So did any of the circuses or zoos report that one of their animals got loose? I live in Manitoba, and I saw one strange animal that looked something like a cross between a gopher and a mink but it was giant sized. I took it to be an escapee from a science lab. I heard that sometimes people bring exotic animals as pets. I remember when we used to live in Vancouver, B.C. someone's canary got loose and it was living around our neighborhood.

it was very intersting ellie..hope its not dangerous i wish to see it myself..cheers

It's fascinating, Ellie- and I'm sure people aren't imagining things! In Australia, people have even taken casts of pawprints and found scats. Some of the people are frightened these big cats are venturing closer to homes and might attack a child. Poultry has already been taken - but I guess until someone finds a deceased big cat, there will still be sceptics.

wow..Well In our area,there are no reported wild cats and well I really hope to see big cats because I never did.The picture you've provided us is really scary big black cat but I always fine them cute..:-0 Hehehehe Well I'm pretty sure it is really scary to know that those wild cats are there..Well most wild animals that discovered here is wild eagle or something like that..:-0 GoD bless and have a nice day..:-0

that is really interesting, and scary, no nothing like that every happened here in montreal, that I know of anyhow. It would be so scary if it did happen though.

It comes to me as a surprise to get to know tha wild big cats are in Uk. I did not think that they could survive in the cold temperature of the British Isles. It is quite strange to get to know that there are wild cats in the Uk countryside. Quite weird. I have not get to know that there are strange animals in my area. We have few countryside where such creatures can hide.

That's from the SUN which also reports that the devil has appeared in almost everything & that the world would end on so many days that have already passed that I've lost count. I wouldn't be likely to believe those people if they said they printed their magazine on paper much less anything else.

I've heard about this for years now. I suspect that these are escapees from traveling shows or privete owners. There are stories about a jaguar outside of Austin years ago, in fact, one of the schools in the area has that as a mascot because of it.

i have heard about this stuff on the history channel. Monster quest.

Hi there ellie, this is indeed very worrying. I hope you guys there fix this problem as i plan to visit your country with my girlfriend this year :D Maybe well meet there ? That would be a nice change as you are one of my favorite friends here at mylot :P

Hi ya ellie333 Well I am glad that you have confirmation now that you are not going mad eh? Hahahah LOL . I am neither out early in the morning or late at night to see such ceatures that maybe prowling our suburbs which I think I might be glad of seeings as they are wild!!!

That's so cool. I can remember like 14 years ago driving up in the mountains it was snowing just a little bit we stopped at the lake and on the lake was killing a deer was a pack of about 5 wolves. Now according to the wildlife experts Wolfs did not live any where near to where we were. Then like 3 years later they came clean that there had been many wolf sightings and that wolves had in fact been seen. They were not sure if it was a local pack or a pack that was moving through or even lost. I had seen them about a year after they had been released back into Yellowstone Park. However now we know they were a local pack that had just been able to survive with out hardly any human contact. I have never seen them again but wow what an experience it was.

lol! bout time the government agrees! i remember seeing a show on the National Geographic channel i think that mentioned the reports of big cats in the UK! i mean with 12,000 reported sightings SOMETHING has to be out there! pretty neat actually..hopefully they wont suddenly to decide they need to be hunted down. obviously no ppl have been attacked and since the sighting themselves are rather rare, they will take the "live and let live" attitude about it!

Wow. That is something else. I bet there are many more wild animals and species thathave not been seen yet also.

I've heard people from out of town said they see deers on their way to my town I never see anything when travelling around the town, other than the ones in my backyard like cats, skunk and squirrel 12,000 is a big number. do you live in rural area or close to a forest ?

Puma, mountain lion, panther are all the same animal and at one time roamed all over the state of Iowa until huntedout of the state. I live in Iowa and we kept seeing the animals early morning and late at night and finding tracks but were scoffed at. Then a few years ago a young male about maybe a few years old was hit by a car and the driver called in the law to have the lion verified. It was indeed a mountain lion that their car had hit. The state had it examined and it was said to have been a wild lion with no captive traits and after study they found at least four roaming pairs and some had cubs. Iowa has a huge deer population. Mountain lion will also have a huge wondering ability to find food, shelter, mates and territory markings. They have even been seen tracking deer in Sioux City , IA in peoples back yards. They will eat a human to. Iowa has a hill ridge that borders both sides of the state and is a great passageway for the lion to travel nearly undetected.

Hi Ellie, I have never come across or seen any wild cats or animals myself, but do know that they do roam around in the West Country, if people remember a good few years ago big cats were kept and thene when they got too big and the licensing laws came out about owning a wild cat a lot of the cats were let loose, so it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if it was a wild cat you saw...huggles littleowl

I remember every winter back home in Nova Scotia when I was a child, that we would get a seal in our backyard....my older sister when she was really young thought it was a bear ha ha, it hissed at her.