Pilsbury
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Essex Big catIn todays sun
Cops warned people near a park to keep pets indoors after sightings of a Black panther.
The beast was reported around Weald country park near Brentwood, Essex yesterday
Police dog handlers launched a hunt for the animal that is beleived to have escaped from a private collection.
There have also been unconfirmed reports of a badly mauled deer carcass was found in the country park.
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lottie
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Oh - I used to live in a village there once - there is a lot of countryside and woods for it to hide in.
Isn't it a shame that wondeful creatures, incarcerated in 'private collections' have to be hunted down and possible killed for just trying to survive by doing what comes naturally.
I know that it the only logical outcome and needs to be done to protect us all, but I think that it is just so sad when animals escape and do damage and have to be destroyed.
Not the animals fault - but the 'owners'.
Each year there are sightings all over the UK. I used to live very near a wild animal park (best not mention the name), and it was well known that wallabies had 'hopped it' over the years - but luckily they only ate grass  So live on happily ever after.
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Guest
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I'm very interested in ABC's I find the subject facinating.There have been regular sighting's in our area and even a local zoo keeper came forward last year to say that he had saw one in the area 20 years ago.
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mrutty
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To this day everyone thinks I'm mad but I saw a large orange stripped cat crossing a bridge over the M27 on my way into Portsmouth one Sat morning.
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lloyd
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Interesting you say that young Smutty. I saw one in Southampton once too. I stopped a RMP patrol to ask if they had noticed it, but they just gave me a funny look. That must have been five or six years ago.
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Cabbagepatch
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| lloyd wrote: | | Interesting you say that young Smutty. I saw one in Southampton once too. I stopped a RMP patrol to ask if they had noticed it, but they just gave me a funny look. That must have been five or six years ago. |
personallyl i think you were both on the same boys' night out... 
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nanny-now and forever
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ther are always big cat sightings
mostly by policemen who then get laughed off the shift
however,
we used to all laugh at people who said they saw ostrich and lama and now they are if not common place at least not unknown so who knows, maybe there is a big ginger tom out there.......
jsut so long as he doesn't use my garden as a litter tray i am not that worried
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mrutty
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I saw a sealion in Trowbridge town park 
It had escaped from Longleat and swam miles.
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Cabbagepatch
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| mrutty wrote: | I saw a sealion in Trowbridge town park
It had escaped from Longleat and swam miles. |
sure you wern't hallucinating? very dodgy water in wiltshire...... 
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Becki
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mmm probably fire water!
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muntjac
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just typed 20 lines about cats in the qwick reply box and it ate it , abbreviated bit .. seen two big cats .one black one lynx .black cat on the A12 near blythboruogh suffolk, called cops they just said ok we will make a note of it ... other was on the farm at wrentham A12 it was a lynx ,came out of trees to poop /pee and it sat and squatted a 100yrds from me . called the boss and he said " oh yeh its been around for 2 yrs or so , we found a few dead lambs n ewes we reckon it killed .... so glad he told me it was there ...game keeper killed by big cat ....
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Leonie2
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see Forum Help and Practice, or is it the Announcements section? The quick reply box is not working for some bizarre reason.
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