Was it a fox or puma ??????

[Mousie]

Originally Posted by Jim Ford

I haven't seen one and won't believe they exist until I've felt the hot foetid breath of one on my face! As I said earlier - extraordinary claims require an extraordinary level of proof


Jim

Well there are quite a few 'cougars' down here, but we do brush our teeth!

[Adrian Vygus]

There are occaisional sightings around Arbroath of large black cats, there was one last year on an industrial estate, in the north of Arbroath. There are in the locality about six deer there are also loads of farm animals, Rabbits etc a couple of years back I found a deers leg on a site I was working on; it had been stripped of meat I believe by a fox. I have however often wondered where the rest of the carcase was!

[Cowgirl]

Originally Posted by Mousie

Well there are quite a few 'cougars' down here, but we do brush our teeth!

Lol

[Beekeeper]

I always think it wise to accept that someone has seen something out of the ordinary, lets face it, most people would recognise a fox or feral cat so if something looks a bit different to the norm then it cannot be discounted out of hand.

As there were well documented sightings of Wallabies in the New Forest, eventually confirmed by the owner who lost them when gales caused trees to demolish the pen fence, why shouldn't similar happenings release a big cat from a zoo or safari park, it is not an impossibllity.

In the case of a private house with a big cat or other dangerous creature, i could see many reasons for keeping quiet an escape if one should happen.


Ian

[eeyore]

Originally Posted by Beekeeper

why shouldn't similar happenings release a big cat from a zoo or safari park, it is not an impossibllity.

no reason at all why a few shouldnt escape this way - but not enough to set up a breeding population or to account for the number and spread of sightings

there is no doubt in my mind that some big cat sighting are real - particularly the smaller ones like lynx and puma, but i think a lot are the result of people being unable to tell a small cat relatively close up from a big cat further away.
and also mistaken identity with dogs and foxes etc.

[Adrian Vygus]

in answer to the original Question Fox or Puma? Probably neither, I can't believe that an animal that big passed that close to somebody ( and a Jack Russell) without a possitive recognition and with out theJR giving chase. you say the JR was looking for it's ball in long grass, at this time of the year? did this animal just materialise in front of you 4 meters away? then vanish in to the eather? a Fox is not three feet high even if you take the measurment from the tip of it's ear to the ground, the whole scenario is improbable.

[lol geoff]

Originally Posted by Adrian Vygus

in answer to the original Question Fox or Puma? Probably neither, I can't believe that an animal that big passed that close to somebody ( and a Jack Russell) without a possitive recognition and with out theJR giving chase. you say the JR was looking for it's ball in long grass, at this time of the year? did this animal just materialise in front of you 4 meters away? then vanish in to the eather? a Fox is not three feet high even if you take the measurment from the tip of it's ear to the ground, the whole scenario is improbable.

There you go it's official...... You imagined the whole thing.