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Thread: Big Cat's On The Shoot.

  1. #16
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    Don't Want To Give It A Chance!!!

    Quote Originally Posted by greebo_Brat
    Has there been any reported attacks on humans? I get the impression that a big cat is more likely to avoid human contact.
    Been in the wood with wolves. They are kinda noisy...
    Been in the wood with a big cat. When they are stalking, all is quiet. Even the crickets don't crick.

    So if they attack humans, thy better attack me from behind, cause that's the view their gonna git.
    A quick walk to to car is better than a .308 anyday...
    Be Quiet, Be Still, Be Precise or Just Be Hungry!!!

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    There was an article on the local news today saying that the largest number of big cat sightings have been in Devon, followed by Yorkshire and then Scotland.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wally
    I found this in the paper today.Has anyone else got a story to share?

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...087641,00.html

    One night about 15yrs ago I had just pulled out of the BP truckstop on the A5 at Crick in Northamptonshire at about 1.30 am.I was heading north up a fairly big hill (Rolls Royce Eagle Power) when I saw a slinkey black shape cross the road about 200 yds in front of me.I was sitting well of the ground in the cab of a 38t twin headlamp 24 volt Leyland Roadtrain so I got a pretty good look at it.Way to big for a mink and it did not move like a dog.
    Thats exactly where I live.

    Richard
    A man can always use more alcohol, tobacco and firearms.

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    A puma was near South Brent, South Devon, about 6 years ago. A week or so later, there was bit on the local news with armed police in evidence, filmed at the farm cross-roads about someone seeing a lion (the same cat?). It was very impressive, bigger than the farmer' collie! I thought someone was pulling my leg when I saw it first. I thought it was a cardboard cut-out but then it stood up, walked along a hedge bottom and hopped up and went through the hedge. As cat-like as a cat! Cat's head, long body, very long tail. The body was the length of an alsatian dog. It was jet black but when the wind caught its fur as it turned, going through the hedge, the under-fur was a light buff/brown/tan colour. I asked the farmer about it and he said not to shout about it because it was keeping the rabbits down. I only saw it once, but once you see something like that you don't forget it. I have looked regularly for tracks or other sign but I think it moved on.

    Keith

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    Yes, I remember that! Most of the sightings seem to involve pumas. This is also known as the mountain lion or cougar. The melanic version - that is, the specimens with black fur, are also called black panthers. I used to work in a private zoo which was part of the filming industry. Mostly we did TV adverts with fluffy ducklings, or we took exotics along to studios for things like the Really Wild Show (never did meet Michaela ).

    Sometimes though, we used to do more involved stuff - the company provided the snakes for the famous Indiana Jones scene, for example. As a result we used to hear horror stories of how our competitors would buy a puma for a film shoot, and then turf it out of the back the van on the way home to save money (it costs £100 or so per week to feed an adult big cat...).

    So - do I believe there are big cats out there? Oh yes! As for the cats never being around one place for very long - you have to bear in mind that they naturally have very big territories, and can range 60 miles in a night...

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