Just asking for a little net-search help here. I was just told that in the last few days, a Big Cat was seen 1 mile from where I am, and it was on the front page of the Coventry Evening Telegraph, the city paper. However, initially I've not found it online.
It's the second time one has been seen, called "a puma" in the woods here.
I'm interested in the subject for one reason since it all used to be poo-poohed as "nonesense" that there were big cats in Britain, even when police and counsellors had seen them, and armed police were called out. But now big cats in Britain is an accepted fact by the authorities - they are thought to be a breeding stock left over from when in 1976 when a new rule forbade people to keep them - so many just let them loose.
Point being that just like the thread on UFOs, people and the media once mocked the fact - but now it is accepted that there are pumas/panthers in the British countryside. One lady actually stepped on one in the dark as it slept, but escaped with bad scratches. Another was attacked from behind at night, but her dog protected her while she was unconcious. It is now official that they have been seen in every single English county.
Anyhow, can anybody find a link to the incident by Coventry (Brandon Woods) a few days ago?
Thanks!
V
Can't find anything about the article you mentioned but I remember many years ago when the owner of a paintball site I used to go to regularly said there was a big cat on their site. I laughed it off as so many other people have in the past but a few months later actually saw it for myself. When I thought about it afterwards, it wasn't actually that surprising as we were near Greenham Common US Airforce base after the troops had left - some of them apparently brought big cats over with them originally, kept them quiet after the ban but were then a bit stuck when it came to returning to USA so just released them into the wild (a friend of mine married a US serviceman from the base and he confirmed that several of them kept big cats).
Hi Venetian
I found the following link but am not sure if it's near??
[url]What's on the prowl in Ryton Wood ?[/url]
HTH
Moonfairy
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Venetian, if you'd seen a big cat in Brandon Woods it would have been our Moet who is 5 foot from nose to tail tip and weighs over 8 kg!
No, it's in Ryton woods and supposed to be a big black one. It's probably the ghost of our Tammy who died in November!
Anyway I'm surprised you live near me...
Anyway I'm surprised you live near me...
I noticed that you say you're in Coventry a while back :), but TBH I've often changed address. While on HP I've also been in London, Somerset, and time in India.
V