Black panther cat seen saturday

[John_S6 10]

A handful of bits of dead big cats found.

 

Do they self destruct?

[megalithic 10]

While it is *possible* that the odd big cat might be out there the likelihood of any particular sighting being really a big cat is low and there is not much evidence of breeding populations. On the rare occasions the sightings are plausible, the animals will most likely have been lost or abandoned.

 

Bear in mind they would need lots of meat. When escapes happen, you notice straight away.

One important point, and it was one that has already been made but needs drawing attention to, is that it is very difficult to judge size at a distance in the absence of good reference points. People will very easily mistake a small black cat for a large black cat in those circumstances.

 

For example: http://www.itv.com/news/london/2012-08-27/essex-lion-search-called-off-by-police/

 

and http://metro.co.uk/2008/09/01/escaped-lion-was-a-stray-dog-441365/

 

There seems to be a theory that some big cats might have been released by their owners because of a change in the law in the 1970s. Again, a possibility, but unlikely to lead to a breeding population. And such animals do not live very long, either, so any let go in the wake of legislative changes in the 1970s would not still be alive. When there have been escapes of pets or zoo/circus animals, those animals have usually been caught quickly.

 

See for example: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-25091939

 

What if, like myself, you actually had half an hour up close and personal with such a beast, all be it a corpse ? What i saw was the corpse of a black panther, half a dozen others witnessed this too, even the police nervously laughed at it when i flagged them down, the driver stated something along the lines of "f**k that", and drove on to the accident that closed the road off, seeing us stuck there, with nothing to do bar wonder at the remains. People got out of their cars to pee, and i called them over to witness it ! The tail of this beast was as long as any domestic cat's body, tail included, and fully intact. Whatever hit it crushed it's back end and it's head, about the wheel gauge of your average car, the rest was complete. No one can tell me i didn't see the corpse of a black panther that day, it couldn't possibly have been anything else. People looked at it and retreated back to their cars in fear.

Call me a crank, but this is 100% true, it's on record with the Lincolnshire police if anyone cares to check, also reported to Danny Bamping, the owner of the website "British Big Cat Society". The same DB who later appeared on Dragons Den with his puzzle box.

 

The real shame of this story is that once i'd pulled myself together, my mother, whom i'd just picked up from an East coast holiday, told me at the last minute she had film left in her polaroid camera, in one of the cases in my boot, i searched frantically for it, even tipping clothes out onto the road, but the jam had cleared, and the police insisted we moved on. This was before the days of camera phones, even mobile phones.

 

Book me a date on that programme that does lie detector tests, no one will mock this post then.

[XXTickerXX 10]

Well that's certainly a well trained fox, and most definitely not unheard of now!

 

:hihi:

[Dannyno 19]

What if, like myself, you actually had half an hour up close and personal with such a beast, all be it a corpse ? What i saw was the corpse of a black panther, half a dozen others witnessed this too, even the police nervously laughed at it when i flagged them down, the driver stated something along the lines of "f**k that", and drove on to the accident that closed the road off, seeing us stuck there, with nothing to do bar wonder at the remains. People got out of their cars to pee, and i called them over to witness it ! The tail of this beast was as long as any domestic cat's body, tail included, and fully intact. Whatever hit it crushed it's back end and it's head, about the wheel gauge of your average car, the rest was complete. No one can tell me i didn't see the corpse of a black panther that day, it couldn't possibly have been anything else. People looked at it and retreated back to their cars in fear.

Call me a crank, but this is 100% true, it's on record with the Lincolnshire police if anyone cares to check, also reported to Danny Bamping, the owner of the website "British Big Cat Society". The same DB who later appeared on Dragons Den with his puzzle box.

 

The real shame of this story is that once i'd pulled myself together, my mother, whom i'd just picked up from an East coast holiday, told me at the last minute she had film left in her polaroid camera, in one of the cases in my boot, i searched frantically for it, even tipping clothes out onto the road, but the jam had cleared, and the police insisted we moved on. This was before the days of camera phones, even mobile phones.

 

Book me a date on that programme that does lie detector tests, no one will mock this post then.

 

"Lie detectors" are pseudo-science too.

 

It's perfectly possible you saw a black panther corpse. It sometimes does happen that these things escape. I said all that. My point was that there is no evidence of a breeding population, and that on the rare occasion there is an escape, they usually get caught quickly.

 

It's also possible that you wouldn't know a black panther if you saw one.

 

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See for example this story, plus the video update at the end:

http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/07/big-black-cat-caught-on-film-in-louisiana/

[Uptowngirl 10]

There's a whole herd of them and they hunt and feed off the pack of wallabies that live a bit further up towards Strines.

 

My garden is regularly ruined by a herd of rhino.

[Boothybabe 10]

My garden is regularly ruined by a herd of rhino.

 

Is that code ?

[megalithic 10]

It's also possible that you wouldn't know a black panther if you saw one.

 

I totally understand what you're saying, but this was a black panther.

The features we're quite recognisable, the tail for one. I can't think of another creature with such a tail. Then there's the teeth, the size of the legs, and it's fur. There was no mistaking it.

 

Btw, i still kick myself to this day for not at least gathering a fur sample, but i was sort of in shock, maybe disbelief ? Plans were made to go back and do this, but the guy then cancelled citing the busyness of the road, and what remains were still likely to be there after two days.

[icecool 10]

As a telephone engineer during the early seventies I was called out to repair a fault on a line at a small circus stationed in a remote area of the penines. The circus was a disgrace, on arrival i was met at the gate and escorted up a muddy drive to the office which was an old caravan. On the way we passed several lorries with large cats living in the cabs with just a windscreen between them and us. My guide reassured me that we were safe and on arrival at the caravan I was told to wait outside whilst he took the cat out. He went in and came out with a puma on a lead and put it into the back of an estate car. When I went into the caravan office it was a total wreck. there was a sofa a desk and a chair all smashed and ripped apart including the telephone and wiring. All the guy said was that the cat went wild when he left the office, evidently he treated it as if it were a pet dog. The guy told me that he usually fastened it to a stake with a chain in a field and that in the recent past it had escaped and jumped the perimeter fence. He hadn't reported it, but managed to find it a week later after it had killed several sheep. He said he'd had to compensate the farmers well to keep quiet, he also said that he'd often taken a lion to Barnsley in the back of his estate car. I worked as fast as possible to repair that line, shortly afterwards the authorities thankfully closed him down. This whole event left such an impression on me that i've never forgotten it. Sorry for the lengthy post , but thought it was relevant to the subject.

[phylisdoris 10]

I totally understand what you're saying, but this was a black panther.

The features we're quite recognisable, the tail for one. I can't think of another creature with such a tail. Then there's the teeth, the size of the legs, and it's fur. There was no mistaking it.

 

Btw, i still kick myself to this day for not at least gathering a fur sample, but i was sort of in shock, maybe disbelief ? Plans were made to go back and do this, but the guy then cancelled citing the busyness of the road, and what remains were still likely to be there after two days.

 

Never seen one myself...what colour is the fur?

 

[megalithic 10]

Never seen one myself...what colour is the fur?

 

 

I meant the texture, the nature of it. Unlike any dog, which given the size that's the only other animal i guess people think it could be mistaken for.

[WilburrUK 10]

...Where I live in the South West sitings of big cats are taken very seriously as there is danger to livestock; humans; and pets. In South rural settings the police will make a search after a report or two. ...

 

Great wet Southern nancies.

[Tess 10]

Not right now. They're on my mums phone. The photos aren't very good. She's only got an old Nokia phone. Next time i see her, I'll ask if she's still got the pics. Not sure how I'd get them from her phone onto my ipad though.

 

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The one my mum and dad saw was in Port Mulgrave near Whitby.

 

Its funny you say that. I came on here to see if anyone had mentioned North Yorkshire because I thought i'd seen something similar at Ravenscar. Looking at the map, thats about 30 minutes down the coast from where your parents think they saw something.