View Full Version : Big Cats In Scotland? Your stories....
Ooooo I have just seen something on the web about "big cat" sightings in Scotland from 1978 pumas and an unidentified cat, thought it was really intresting and wondered if there have been such sightings recently?
Would love to hear your stories:)
connieb19
14-Aug-06, 20:54
There was a sighting short ago, at Hillhead I think it was.
Kingetter
14-Aug-06, 20:54
Like this you mean?
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i102/OpenandShut/large_cat_q.jpg
willowbankbear
14-Aug-06, 20:54
Allegedly there was a big cat roaming around Caithness but I never saw it
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/9844/bigcatph5.th.jpg (http://img217.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bigcatph5.jpg)
Although this bloke did
Kingetter
14-Aug-06, 22:05
Its related to the one above I believe.
Last year we were in Budapest and went - as you do - to Tesco's (honest) and there was a cat show there, the main breed were 'Main Coons' and they were absolutely huge, so those snaps above ARE genuine
j4bberw0ck
14-Aug-06, 22:27
Next thing you know, someone'll put a "that's racist" message up as they did when the talk was of "coonskin caps" :roll:
Maine Coons are fantastic. Overall, rather have a dog, but if I had to have a cat, that'd be the one. My neighbours have a dog needs sorting out........ :lol:
This subject would never have raised an eyebrow with me until about 6 weeks ago. I always had the belief that large cats could be at large in Scotland until I saw an oversize moggy that would have weighed about the same as a large border collie. It was huge, now reports of tigers in suburbia are now all fat moggies which seems more likely.
Tiger Jones
14-Aug-06, 23:30
now reports of tigers in suburbia are now all fat moggies which seems more likely.I see... so I'm a fat moggy am I? [lol]
Check out this site www.scottish (http://www.scottish) bigcats.org
About four years ago we were driving to wick from inverness, and a black puma like cat crossed the road in front of us. It was somewhere before Brora. We stopped the car but the creature had disappeared.
Allegedly there was a big cat roaming around Caithness but I never saw it
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/9844/bigcatph5.th.jpg (http://img217.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bigcatph5.jpg)
Although this bloke did
apparently that was a hoax, trick photography. The guy sent it to his friend as a joke, next thing he knew it was all over the net!
Billy Boy
17-Aug-06, 12:59
apparently that was a hoax, trick photography. The guy sent it to his friend as a joke, next thing he knew it was all over the net!
look's like it lol,i thought it looked stuffed:eek:
Hibeechick
17-Aug-06, 13:32
I was on my way to Edinburgh one Friday night a couple of summers ago. Just as I was passing Pitlochery, a large black cat ran straight across the road and off up into the trees. Was far to big to be any domestic cat! I said then and I still believe it was a panther!
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did anyone seeanything abou the ''cat thing'' found in a neighbourhood in America??? Seen a picture it was a right ugly looking thing!
Tiger Jones
17-Aug-06, 15:48
I was on my way to Edinburgh one Friday night a couple of summers ago. Just as I was passing Pitlochery, a large black cat ran straight across the road and off up into the trees. Was far to big to be any domestic cat! I said then and I still believe it was a panther!
xOne thing is for sure - neither of the Hibs first team 'keepers are in any danger of being nicknamed "The Cat". Oh, maybe "The Statue Of A Cat". :lol:
BMcGillivray
17-Aug-06, 16:24
A few years back now, a friend and i were walking back to Thurso from visiting another friend out on a farm on the Halkirk road from Thurso, past Glengolly, neither of us could drive, so we always just walked out, about 5 miles or so out. It was late evening in winter, around 10-11pm or so, snow was thick on the ground, we thought it'd be fun to cut cross-country instead of walking along the side of the road, being adventurous types.
So we were wandering through empty fields, talking and such, and we were getting close to Thurso when i spotted and pointed just up the field from us at what i thought was one of those black plastic liners they sometimes use to wrap bails on the fields, lying in an oblong heap in the snow.. but snow hadn't covered over it... which i now realise was strange.
Anyway, i jokingly said to my friend outloud "look, its a big effing black cat in the snow!"... as soon as i said that... the black bag got up... ran off and leaped over the fence... we near sh*t ourselves...
It wasn't that far away from us, and it jumped distinctively like a cat... and to this day, we both swear it must've been a big cat, and not far Thurso either.
Kingetter
17-Aug-06, 16:29
Like this you mean?
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i102/OpenandShut/large_cat_q.jpg
Unlike the other puss, this is a real one, and does qualify I think as a fat moggy I think.
I encountered a big hairy cat just the other night, it looked like it had been in a fight because it had no teeth and a nasty gash.
Hi we stay south of wick and we have seen a big cat twice once on the old railway track at Clyth and another nr Ulbster , I suppose that knowing how far cats travel they could both of been the same cat .
Billy Boy
17-Aug-06, 20:06
http://www.berro.com/images1/fatcatx1.jpg
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