Big Cats In Britain? Anyone buy in to this....

**CFH** · 05-12-2010 06:33 PM

We have tons of them around here and we get sightings in town on a periodic basis. A cougar came into our backyard and killed/chased away our two cats when I was a kid.

**TheMacMagician** · 05-12-2010 09:42 PM

Originally Posted by CFH

We have tons of them around here and we get sightings in town on a periodic basis. A cougar came into our backyard and killed/chased away our two cats when I was a kid.

Wow, thats sounds absolutely amazing. I remember a while back watching a realy good program, think it was based in Somerset if I remember right. They had two trackers / fur trapper chaps come over from Canada to search out certain places and look at evidence and photos. One of the guys was a Canadian called Mike Jones I think and the other dude was actually a british guy who had been working as a cat trapper in canada for the last 20 years or something. They weren't covinced by the evidence that they saw that anything was kicking around in Somerset anyways...

**CFH** · 05-13-2010 03:09 AM

Originally Posted by TheMacMagician

Wow, thats sounds absolutely amazing. I remember a while back watching a realy good program, think it was based in Somerset if I remember right. They had two trackers / fur trapper chaps come over from Canada to search out certain places and look at evidence and photos. One of the guys was a Canadian called Mike Jones I think and the other dude was actually a british guy who had been working as a cat trapper in canada for the last 20 years or something. They weren't covinced by the evidence that they saw that anything was kicking around in Somerset anyways...

Well, it kinda fucking sucks when they kill your pets. I never saw either cat again after that day, but there were the big claw marks in the tree in the backyard. There is lots of wildlife around here. If you go hiking etc. just outside of the city, you're in bear and cougar country, but they're rarely seen and it's extremely rare that they cause any injuries or deaths.

**Kev** · 05-13-2010 04:16 AM

I think they have been confirmed to be living down here in Devon. Exmoor has had literally dozens of sightings and farm animals killed over the years. They even sent the army in to shoot them a couple decades ago. As has been said above they are just survivor offspring of animals released onto the moors in the 70's after animal licensing laws came into effect. I doubt there are very many, but I'm pretty certain they are they out there, sadly the only cryptids that are.