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Originally Posted by JeffH  Well I'm a birder and I have seen one Rob  Here in rural Cambridgeshire there are regular reported sightings of the so-called 'Fen Tiger' and, like you, I was always very sceptical about such things.
Until, that is, my own sighting about 6 or 7 years ago when I was walking my dog (a Weimaraner) and birding on the former airfield in our village.
To this day I have no idea what it was but I'm no longer quite so sceptical. |
I knew as soon as I posted it somebody would contradict me! I guess until you see one yourself you never really know. I'm not sure whether I would be excited or scared by it? I know my dog would run a mile if anything bigger than a squirrel said boo to her.
I'm not sure how you would distinguish big cat kill from dog kill though. One of my neighbours up here in the Dales recently lost forty sheep to a dog - a Saluki (spelling is no doubt horribly wrong) to be precise. Some had been killed outright, others so badly mauled they had to be put down. They did eventually manage to shoot it so they know this was dog not cat.