mackem 26,521 Posted April 12, 2023 Report Share Posted April 12, 2023 2 minutes ago, Daniel cain said: most be more than one of these loose in London alone... sightings going back a few yrs and quite regular... Pensioner terrified as big cat sneaks into North London home through tiny window - MyLondon WWW.MYLONDON.NEWS Moses Gerbi was shocked when he found the feline curled up in his study This was a few miles from me,captured after a few days,escaped pet. 5 Link to post Share on other sites
Squirrel_Basher 17,100 Posted April 12, 2023 Report Share Posted April 12, 2023 6 minutes ago, Daniel cain said: most be more than one of these loose in London alone... sightings going back a few yrs and quite regular... Pensioner terrified as big cat sneaks into North London home through tiny window - MyLondon WWW.MYLONDON.NEWS Moses Gerbi was shocked when he found the feline curled up in his study Should be some good footage to follow then ? Link to post Share on other sites
Squirrel_Basher 17,100 Posted April 12, 2023 Report Share Posted April 12, 2023 10 minutes ago, mackem said: Forestry commission reputedly saw two big cats when doing a thermal deer survey?BUT if you dig into the reports the guy says something along the lines of he wasn’t exactly sure what he actually saw. Freedom of info should allow access to that vid .FC is a GOV body is it not . 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites
comanche 3,024 Posted April 12, 2023 Report Share Posted April 12, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, keepdiggin said: Surprised more weren’t realeased I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't the odd one secreted in the fortress-like homes of a certain class of rich people. A couple of cubs wouldn't be much of a challenge to be had via the same routes that bring guns,drugs ,illicit fortunes and even people into the country. Over 20 years ago an unknown billionaire of rumoured "East European" heritage bought a run down local estate. Not much was seen to done to the big house and rumours of Russian money laundering(only local supposition to be fair) were muttered. A fair number of interesting animals appeared in the grounds though ; including a little herd of white red deer and mouflon. The estate was very private but remained poorly maintained and was eventually sold on ,tarted-up and opened to the public. During the transition period a mouflon appeared on the land belonging to one of my customers. It was very shy but intent on reaching my customer's ewes . Local children's zoos and the big estate were contacted. All denied responsibility. Defra had no records and told my customer it was his responsibility to deal with it as it was on his land . I really wanted the job -especially as l drew the short straw of getting close enough to note that it wasn't ear tagged- because it had a rather good head of horns. Unfortunately the knacker man had already been called . Just as well because l only had a .22 at the time and when we trapped it in a paddock it went crazy . After shooting it at long range the knackerer reckoned from the condition of its feet and horns it had been wild for a very long time Officially this thing had never existed . Edited April 12, 2023 by comanche 8 Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 26,521 Posted April 12, 2023 Report Share Posted April 12, 2023 3 minutes ago, comanche said: I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't the odd one secreted in the fortress-like homes of a certain class of rich people. A couple of cubs wouldn't be much of a challenge to be had via the same routes that bring guns,drugs ,illicit fortunes and even people into the country. Overy sold on yyy 20 years ago an unknown billionaire of rumoured "East European" heritage bought a run down local estate. Not much was seen to done to the big house and rumours of Russian money laundering(only local supposition to be fair) were muttered. A fair number of interesting animals appeared in the grounds though ; including a little herd of white red deer and mouflon. The estate was very private but remained poorly maintained and was eventually sold on ,tarted-up and opened to the public. During the transition period a mouflon appeared on the land belonging to one of my customers. It was very shy but intent on reaching my customer's ewes . Local children's zoos and the big estate were contacted. All denied responsibility. Defra had no records and told my customer it was his responsibility to deal with it as it was on his land . I really wanted the job -especially as l drew the short straw of getting close enough to note that it wasn't was ear tagged- because it had a rather good head of horns. Unfortunately the knacker man had already been called . Just as well because l only had a .22 at the time and when we trapped it in a paddock it went crazy . After shooting it at long range the knackering reckoned from the condition of its feet and horns it had been wild for a very long time Officially this thing had never existed . After the mouflon was shot did you keep its head? Link to post Share on other sites
comanche 3,024 Posted April 12, 2023 Report Share Posted April 12, 2023 (edited) 6 minutes ago, mackem said: After the mouflon was shot did you keep its head? No it went off to be "properly disposed of" ie incinerated.Booked down as a sheep.DOH! Edited April 12, 2023 by comanche 1 Link to post Share on other sites
sandymere 8,263 Posted April 12, 2023 Report Share Posted April 12, 2023 Few on here get over excited dreaming about a big pussy, likely near as they're ever likely to get to see one in real life Link to post Share on other sites
DIDO.1 22,838 Posted April 13, 2023 Report Share Posted April 13, 2023 10 hours ago, comanche said: No it went off to be "properly disposed of" ie incinerated.Booked down as a sheep.DOH! I helped out at a knacker yard that picked up from local zoos and Safari parks. They had a few skins and heads on the wall. I think another knacker yard got done for selling a rhino horn so from then on all heads and skins got ruined before being picked up. Horns got cut in pieces with a saw and all skins got repeatedly slashed with a Stanley knife before the knacker van arrived. Would see lions with all there skins slashed. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Squirrel_Basher 17,100 Posted April 13, 2023 Report Share Posted April 13, 2023 15 minutes ago, DIDO.1 said: I helped out at a knacker yard that picked up from local zoos and Safari parks. They had a few skins and heads on the wall. I think another knacker yard got done for selling a rhino horn so from then on all heads and skins got ruined before being picked up. Horns got cut in pieces with a saw and all skins got repeatedly slashed with a Stanley knife before the knacker van arrived. Would see lions with all there skins slashed. Nothing to do with the thread but I was on the foot and mouth clear up team camped at Over in Gloucester .After we had burnt the dead gear from the surrounding farms they brought us several wildebeest from a collection nearby with decent racks .I wanted one but never found the moment to extricate said rack .We we’re also brought a wagon load of bison from a place near there that had been slaughtered . The wagon was all taped up and covered in sheeting .When they tipped them in our makeshift bale yard I realised why ! The corpses were rotten and had been in that wagon for 3 weeks due to the back up for incineration and the thought of rummaging through it for a boss wasn’t that appealing .Had to use the bucket to transport them to the burning pyres . We were right opposite a housing estate and the black acrid smoke of the burning was blowing their way for best part of a month .We had journalists at the gate offering £500 notes for pics of the burning but to my knowledge nobody took it . The army was in charge of logistics and at night one of us would have to be on call to unload or sign in materials for burning ie coal ,kerosene and sleepers . That was abused big time though with squaddies taking bribes to let the load go on to the next burning area . Link to post Share on other sites
Greyman 28,441 Posted April 13, 2023 Report Share Posted April 13, 2023 12 hours ago, mackem said: Forestry commission reputedly saw two big cats when doing a thermal deer survey?BUT if you dig into the reports the guy says something along the lines of he wasn’t exactly sure what he actually saw. What is your angle on things Mac you just seem to want to undermine everything and feed FD with more nonsense, the guy from the Forest of Dean survey couldn’t identify the cats they were seeing because it was on thermal which only shows a shape and not the markings he could clearly see they were cats just not what species they were, his words but as no one bothers fact checking you you just say what you want to try and dampen and derail the topic very very strange behaviour, don’t think I would bother putting so much effort into something I didn’t believe in if I was living such an adventure filled dream life as you claim to be very very strange behaviour Link to post Share on other sites
scotty12 1,988 Posted April 13, 2023 Report Share Posted April 13, 2023 1 hour ago, Greyman said: What is your angle on things Mac you just seem to want to undermine everything and feed FD with more nonsense, the guy from the Forest of Dean survey couldn’t identify the cats they were seeing because it was on thermal which only shows a shape and not the markings he could clearly see they were cats just not what species they were, his words but as no one bothers fact checking you you just say what you want to try and dampen and derail the topic very very strange behaviour, don’t think I would bother putting so much effort into something I didn’t believe in if I was living such an adventure filled dream life as you claim to be very very strange behaviour Thing is with the thermal at night time greyman things can look 10x bigger than they actually are at times …. You could see a normal cat or fox and and actually think it’s something much larger Link to post Share on other sites
greg64 2,826 Posted April 13, 2023 Report Share Posted April 13, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Greyman said: What is your angle on things Mac you just seem to want to undermine everything and feed FD with more nonsense, the guy from the Forest of Dean survey couldn’t identify the cats they were seeing because it was on thermal which only shows a shape and not the markings he could clearly see they were cats just not what species they were, his words but as no one bothers fact checking you you just say what you want to try and dampen and derail the topic very very strange behaviour, don’t think I would bother putting so much effort into something I didn’t believe in if I was living such an adventure filled dream life as you claim to be very very strange behaviour it says two rangers were using thermal imaging cameras and one of them definitely thought it was some sort of large cat Edited April 13, 2023 by greg64 Link to post Share on other sites
greg64 2,826 Posted April 13, 2023 Report Share Posted April 13, 2023 'Reliable' big cat sightings revealed | The Independent | The Independent Link to post Share on other sites
lurcherman 887 13,154 Posted April 13, 2023 Report Share Posted April 13, 2023 Wtf is a mouflon 1 Link to post Share on other sites
greg64 2,826 Posted April 13, 2023 Report Share Posted April 13, 2023 1 minute ago, lurcherman 887 said: Wtf is a mouflon a wild sheep from cyprus ,turkey armenia 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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