Greyman
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I think it would just be a wildcat, the Scottish bit is just were its last remaining stronghold is, among all the other things I get to try and sift through, I have seen a stuffed wildcat that was killed in Dorset in recent times and as I said before it's the same cat that's running around in some of the more wild parts of Europe in reasonable numbers, house cats are just wildcats that learned years ago it was easier sitting round fishermen and eating scraps from the floor than hunting your own, the only thing that keeps them species specific is isolation, as we brought in domestics they bred
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As a little aside from the big cats, I have a book somewhere called a highland year by Leigh McNally, he was a gamekeeper back in the day s they were considered pests and there are some good accounts of hunting wildcats with his terriers in there, some nice pics as well if your a reading type
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So did I when I first read it, but it's to do with the offspring and how many they have, how many survive and how soon they start there own family if you had 2 rabbits in an enclosure and 2 cats in another the cat family would outgrow the rabbit family within a year, possibly to do with rabbits being a natural prey animal for everything and everyone to dine on and cats even domestic/ferals are still a decent preditor so would have a much higher survival rate, cats have a much longer lifespan than a rabbit so the one original cat can also still be pumping out kittens in ten years time when bugs
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The bloke doing the Lynx project also runs a wildcat project up there as well, he goes round trapping and sterilising local feral,s because as said a lot of times cats are slutty and the biggest risk to the Scottish wildcat is its hybridised so much it's hard finding pure blood stock, but on a positive note it was once native all over England and is still native over much of Europe so though not a true jock the species is,nt as badly off as some suggest, cats are so promiscuous that one pair can outbreeda pair of rabbits over the course of a year
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Spot on,??
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A pumard mate, leopard puma X popular as pets in years gone by due to the fact the cross created dwarfism
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Most of the cats can and will interbreed but from observation I would say a jaguar is just to big and to specialised to be in the uk without being seen and causing big damage, melonism also clouds the water as many cats seem to revert to black, some people are of the opinion that England will end up with a species of its own due to small gene pools and hybridisation, As i,ve said before I,m not dealing with facts I,m trying to work things out without a manual or text book a lack of competition also makes them work differently here as there are no bears, wolfs or other preditors to disrupt th
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Your dead right mate except Jaguars, the first three are general hunters and all three thrive in multiple situations usually unnoticed by people, the jag is a specialist hunter and the third biggest cat,it would struggle to survive un noticed for long, I have seen several pictures of cats that have the size but not the appearance of the three you mention and the only conclusion is they are hybrids
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You not really takeing in what's being said mate, could you find one fox in an area of 150 acres, ? Probably not without a lot of leg work and a small miracle, we only need around 200 cats in the whole of the U.K. To maintain a breeding population we are not in America were they are travelling the same trail every few days, if I miss my opportunity this winter it will be a year at least before I get the chance to get it again as that seems to be a normal cycle, I have one spot I,ve found two kills in two years on the same track, so next year a month before the last two kills I will put up a c
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He,s in his 80s mate and was asleep when it happened it's the authority's saying it was a cat, if you have the money and the inclination any cat is still easily available, like the bloke who lost the clouded leopard recently, there are still lots of them bringing things in it just requires stricter paper work and the accommodation has to be in a inner and outer fenced enclosure and have 24 hour cctv and things like that, the serval is the pet cat at the moment for those after a big cat without so much hassle also think domestic X servals will be flooding onto the market next when the £12000 bu
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We have a few contacts in America that help with what we do, one fella that has been using camera traps as a full time job for 25 years in the Rockies has had 1000s of mountain lions on his traps but has only ever glimpsed 2 in the flesh in that time and as I,ve said before the population is massive in the places they are filming in comparison to a tiny population here, so if you forget there are a few cats here and had an area of land roughly 150 miles square with one fox living there, it would be a massive undertaking to find that one fox and cats are much more stealthy, also as I've mention
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I think I,ve worked out who you are, are you mr Ben, from the children's program of my youth ??
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A little update, coincidently I am hearing that in the area the old fella lives there is a savanna cat loose, not a make believe one that only people with special powers like me can see, but a privately owned licence one, just because a cat is mentioned it's not always a lie, there is sometimes a quite normal explanation and you would be quite surprised how many get brought in legally each year
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I,m sure someone will put up the pics of his injury,s, soon mate, I have one cat in my house and it won't allow any others in my garden let alone in the house, but I,m not really a domestic cat person so could well be wrong sorry I,m in and out at the mo so won't be able to answer for a while after this
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A little wee and a small pooh I would imagine, though he is armed and in an advantageous position should it happen, there has been a report this week of an old man attacked in his bed in uk by what police are calling a feral cat? If anyone is interested, he lives in a houseful of cats which would put off another cat coming in the window unless it sees them as food????check it out
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It's a fools route I know a young couple on the verge of losing there home as they are trapped in contracts for cars and can't afford there home, no company does anything that will profit the customer more than the company and when people tell you it's not costing them a penny they are lying because you are non stop paying, I know of many people that got trapped in this shit system all have got out of it after one or two motors regretting ever signing upto it in the first place, if you are self employed it can be a bit better as you can claim more back against your tax by leasing than owning,
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Sorry to hear that' I thought he had some collie in him and had a bit of wall eye, I have a terrier with hardly any sight left but she's fine walks by my side off the lead and uses her nose a lot but for a sight hound it's a no go, really hope it turns out ok for you and the boy good luck
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Interested to no what's brought him to my neck of the woods and what he knows, but also have a nagging doubt it's just a quick earner for a total chancer, you only need ten people to turn up and you,ve made a £100 I,ve attended bigcat talks by people I do respect on the subject and have seen between 30/60 people in audience,s so it can be lucrative if your willing to talk shit for money
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I,ve had quite a few emails and phone calls regarding this expert and he seems to talk the talk without ever backing anything up and is avoided by most interested in the subject he has also had Bigfoot encounters in the Forest of Dean and what a mad coincidence his nephew was the boy that had his face scratched in that famous big cat encounter in Wales and he managed to get himself on the police helicopter to help look for it ?? Don't no if I,m willing to pay a £10 to hear what he has to say and don't no if I could keep my mouth shut for very long if I do go, decisions decisions
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Get a nice dress and tuck it in
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Have a look on eBay see if there are any simular ones for sale look at the ones being auctioned as opposed to the ones with a buy it now price as many of them are dealers asking top dollar, but you should get a reasonable idea by working out an average if there are a few on there, good luck
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Putting aside weather or not anyone believes me, I,ve just seen an add for a talk by big cat expert called Danny nineham and it's very local to my areas of research, I,ve had a little Google on the bloke and some of the claims he has made are pretty far removed from what I see as reality, so I was just wondering if anyone knows or has heard of him ???
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Shame the fur industry is gone, that would of been like finding a days wages when I was in my youth
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Has anyone seen the news this wolf is tame and friendly and better behaved than many dogs I,ve seen,, they just put a lead on it and walked it back, another total non story over a non event, all the press are ever looking for is a scare story even when there is nothing to be scared of
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Wrap and tuck check required!!
Greyman replied to Bush Rummager's topic in Catapult & Slingshot Hunting
Could be a little tighter but as long as you can pull the pouch back to your anchor point without it undoing alls good, you can get a metre of tbg and a roller cutter on eBay for about a £10 mate then you can play around all day
