Probably earthling ed dressed as a fox trying to mate with others 😂😂

Get a trail cam out there, we need to know 👍

I remember seeing a feral cat in Cumbria 17 years ago, it was a bit bigger than a fox with weird looking fur. I used to joke that it was a mutant from the nuclear plant, but I was told all the local stories/rumours i.e. exotic pets released into the countryside.

Here’s a story my father passed on to me a few years ago. A few years before, say the early 2000s in the summer time there was a big search for a missing child not far from my parents in South Gloucestershire, a mile or so north of Bristol. A policeman walking a country lane spotted a load of corvids circling something in the middle of some mowing grass, he stood on the gate to get a better look, then rushed over praying it was not the lost child he could see, it wasn’t, he found instead a Lynx / Bobcat lying close to death, it was riddled with mange and in a pathetic state, I don’t know the end of the story other than the cat was removed from the field, so I can’t say if it was destroyed or saved.

Sounds like a Bunyip. Very secretive animal. You were lucky to see one. Usually found near water or marsh land............... Could it have been a old feral dog?

Around my area a lot of people banged on about a predator that wasn’t native a load of years back. It was around the time owning big cats was made illegal so they thought it had been released

Around 1993 my primary school field backed on to old train lines we used to go through a large hole in the railings me and atleast 3 friends saw a lynx/bobcat it didnt run when it saw us it calmly walked off in to thick bushes, there where alot of ferral cats living on the tracks behind are school maybe this attracted it im not sure, i remember it had a thick short tail and a spikey white mane and was about 1.5 to 2 times bigger than a large domestic, this was in preston lancashire and about a good mile from and farm like fields, the area is quite built up although the old tracks where less busy and thickly overgrown

There are certainly lynx in the UK, I live in the Brecon beacons and I only ever saw it once strangely at around 40 yards or so, the shape and features are unmistakable.

My uncle is certain his seen a lynx and his not the sort of person who comes up with that sort of thing so I fully believe him, that was about 10 years ago though

Last week, I saw something brown sticking up from the water and I can tell that its a mammal and I don't know if it was just a giant rat or a beaver or an otter

A few years ago I once saw a massive eagle like bird in the woods. I was pretty stunned. It's wingspan was probably twice that of a red kite.

I mean the good thing about people releasing wolves, lynx’s and the like is going to mean it should relax gun laws (hopefully) because as soon as a few kids get eaten (god forbid) it’s gonna worry people into buying guns

Greetings From America. Bobcat and Lynx have "no tail" just a stubby. Both have a multi colored coat with black splotches and are at best perfectly camoflogded... So they are easy recognized when they are seen..... 🤔🤔 But there are Many other Cats...So who knows???? Bobcats run about the same size as a fox here, but Lynx are twice or more that size....pretty fair size cat! Both have the distinct feature of longer hind legs than the front. I have the pleasure of seeing a bobcat every now and again here, but Lynx are non-existent to all but the most remote of locations. Time to invest in a few trail cams......if your courosity is peaked enough...😉. Might even help in patterning some of those Deer. 😃 The more time you spend in the country side, the more you see....and sometimes you get more questions than answers! Keep a eye pealed, for you just never know! Best Wishes Sam.. 😃

Been shooting for 29 years and often game keeping in the last 7 years. What you described you seen sounds to me like the Lynx which are actually in no shortage in the forests we operate in and my best encounter with the lynx happened last year and was only about 20 or so meters away where we both locked eyes on each other for about 6 to 7 seconds or so before it turned and moved off quite quickly. I just decided to up up big cats again because just last Saturday i had another encounter this time with a black cat at about the size of a German Pointer. I left out the locations of these sightings for obvious reasons.

You could be right about seeing a Lynx, as a very brief surface googling shows that there were plans at some point to reintroduce them to the UK. Apparently they were once native here. :) I hope they're not a nuisance animal, as they are very beautiful!

I seen something exact the same here in Scotland this week. Was either a lynx or a cougar. Was definitely a big cat

I had a sighting when I was younger about 25 years ago and it's actually officially recorded because it was both me and my freind that had the encounter and it was around 30 yards away, this is what happened... We were walking through a small village in Dorset, in the middle of the daytime and a huge black cat with a massive tail came walking out of the hedgeline into the road. It stopped and looked straight at us, but it got weirder, then a much larger black cat came out of the same hedgerow behind it and following a long were three little cubs. I swear as God as my witness this is true. They crossed the road into the garden on the other side. People told us they were dogs, you don't confuse cats for dogs at 30 yards and dogs don't have short faces ,metre long tails and thick muscular shoulders, they also don't walk with that prudent, sleek walk that cats have. I will never forget it. Ever. We ran to our friends house as quick as we could. Big cats have been officially listed as British wildlife according to a newspaper report I read some years back. They're here, and they're breeding. People in Africa where leopards are common, hardly ever see them, and that's with large numbers. That's why sighting are so rare in the UK.

You saw what you saw probably nobody is going to believe you! I do on two different occasions on two different locations I see it.. thanks 👍👌🇬🇧

Someone shared this video to FB, but I didn't realize how old it was. I animal watch with NV and thermal and have seen a few things I couldn't readily identify, but nothing that left me thinking it was a big cat. Although I did myself have a good sighting of a Black Panther near the A55 Expressway in Abergele back around 2006-2008, I drove passed a field that is parallel with Gwrych Castle, and it was a 1/4 way up this field, near the hedgerow about 100m away and I got a really good look at it, when I got home I reported it to Colwyn Bay Police station and initially told the desk Sergeant that he would think I'm crazy but upon telling him of my sighting he said 2 other credible witnesses has already reported seeing the same "big cat" and they were taking the sighting seriously. Incidentally Black Panthers have been seen in the woods there and also further south at a nearby holiday park, Bones also found in a nearby cave that showed tooth pits and indentations normally seen from when a Leopard feeds on an animal's bones.

I work on a golf course that's surrounded by farms and a few years back I seen something that looked like a big cat. I was on my way to work I seen its eyes light up in the middle of the field and next thing it was running across the road Infront of the car. I've seen many foxes and this didn't run like fox and how far it ran in that short time it was quick. Spoke to one of the old farmers about it and he said they heard about cats often in the farming community.

Evening Sam, I live very close to stansted airport in a small village 10 mile or so away. Know as the ‘big black cat’ a very large black panther like animal has been spotted in my village on numerous occasions, my grandad has seen the animal multiple times as he was a train driver for British rail he has seen it either end of tunnels by the airport and has caught it trying to get into his peacock enclosure. Just something I’d share around this topic. Hope all is well 👍🏼

Me and my mates I saw one about 15 years ago in Burnam Beeches woods at about 1.00 am To this day I thought they were common.. only when speaking with someone about wild cats did I realise they were rare / unseen. It was as big as a fox / bigger with what looked like a cross sticking out at the top of its ears. We were in the car and didn’t dare get out to go see it.. no camera phones around in those days

Many, many years ago I was out shooting with a pal on farmland in Brighton UK. My mate shot a feral cat which was huge, it wasn't a Lynx though. It was a feral cat and was approximately 2 to 2.5 times bigger than any cat I'd seen before or since. Is your cap waterproof ? if yes, could you post a link please as I'd like to buy one. Geoff.

That sounds like a Maine Coon, they're that size and colour too.

I saw a big cat tonight , whilst I walked my dog. Was very scary. I rang the police as ive never come across this ever in my life , very surreal experience!

Love your video you are my favourite KZfaqr

There probably are a few. At least 3 have been shot( sadly) in Thetford forest, and there have been a lot of sightings of lynx. The lynx is shy, elusive, it doesn't like to leave forests and it is not a loud animal. It is also not that large, with it only able to take down roe deer at most. They could easily hide in the forests of Uk like Thetford or New Forest, where there's abundant woodland, lots of deer and less human activity, with parts people don't go into. I've been to some parts of thetford forest that are so in the woods I can't even find it on a map, places that me and my dad saw no one else for hours. They probably are few and wary, but a friend found lynx tracks recently this year so they still live in thetford forest. I have seen one big cat in the Uk wild, though it was not a lynx. I was 10 years old going to a PGL place for a trip with my primary school on a bus, and I was looking out the window to see any animals since I always love animals. I saw a whole herd of fallow deer resting under a tree in a field, which was easily visible from the road. Then I see something running across a field ahead, which as the bus passes comes into view. It was a big farm crop field, with woodland on either side. I could see whatever it was had a long thin tail, a long sleek build, it looked at least 4 feet minimum, I could tell because the deer were close enough to the road to see their size and this looked as long at least, it had four long limbs and the head was not a dogs, with their ears and snout, plus there was no person around or a collar or leash in sight, it looked cat like with the face as it was running reminding me of those documentaries of big cats running down prey, like a cougar or leopard. I've seen foxes a lot, this was not a fox, it was not a badger, polecats are much smaller then this and they don't have such long thin tails, only cats have tails like cylinders. But the bus pulled away and it was gone. I've seen polecats since then, and pine martens, and neither match what I saw, this thing was at least two feet tall for a start, much bigger and unlike a fox it was too long looking with a much less fluffy tail and a head that looked too feline to be a foxes, no triangular face.

I seen a lynx run across the road about 10 years ago in Hertfordshire

My buddy has seen something similar while looking for Roe. He has seen it on 2 occasions. Matching same description, a little bigger than a fox but same features as described in the video and comments. Hes wondered what it could be natively and doesn't know. You hear stories in local press every now and again regarding sightings too. It would be awesome if someone got photos or footage. While I've never seen anything myself I have seen some suspect looking footprints while I've been looking around the river on the perm. I'm in Lancashire. It's all a bit of a mystery!

Put bait out for a week then go put a night vision camera up and see what comes creeping around.

I personally have seen evidence of big cats up here in Scotland I have photographs of their paw prints and deer that have been killed by them so yeah I would say they are out there.

We had one escape from the zoo that we back onto here in devon.... and escapes aren’t exactly uncommon down here. I’d say bait and camera trap time! Will be interesting to follow this one

Not a lynx, but about 4 years ago a friend and I were driving at night from Dungeness and a huge black cat ran across the dual carriageway. It was nearly the size of a Doberman and was so black it was like a hole in everything I could see. Freaked us out I tell yer.

Hi I have seen a lynxe too run across the road in front of me in cock lane Hoddesdon Hertfordshire, I met someone who had seen a Lynxe too in the Hoddesdon area there was also a Lynxe captured in Cricklewood North London in the 1980s and in the 1930s one was captured in Scotland

I've seen big cats in norfolk, not tiger's/lions or anything to that extent, but certainly much bigger than most domestic cats.

Me, my ex and my two eldest kids saw a bloody big black cat in Northumberland in 1991. We reported it to the police and weren't taken seriously. When that cat walked out of some trees onto the path we were walking on it was bloody frightening.

There was a breed of domestic cat near me that was huge sore it alot whilst out lamping. It was a grey colour tho but it had large pointed ears large feet and a short stubby tail. Only realised it was a domestic cat when I sore my neighbour's with it

i think its a bengal cat or a serval cat... happens a lot

About 20 years ago i was a passenger in a car north of Redditch, as we were going along i looked out the window at a field and saw a very large black cat. No it wasn't a dog or a large domestic cat. It was a large cat like a Panther, i couldn't believe what i was seeing, my mind was telling me it wasn't possible, but i did see a very large black cat with a long thick tail, a domestic cat would have been too small to see from that distance.

Could of been a maincoon mix of a lynx and maincoon species because you can buy those

I saw a lynx last October in Hertfordshire 2am in the morning

I've heard of similar sightings before...and I think the most likely option is a large feral cat? Of course, it isn't impossible that it was a Lynx, but the most likely option is a feral cat.

Saw your post on fb ,yeah they out there saw a black leapard a few years ago ,got pics of paw prints from Cannock Chase and north Wales and saw what looked like the things that run the bank in Harry Potter ,watched that sideways on through bins for 10 mins ,freaked me out ,if you with to pm on fb I can send u a pic of something interesting as well 😉

It’s possible with all the strange things ppl keep if it’s got out and living wild. I remember the beast of Bodmin Moore turned out to be a large cat.

could be a scab fox? dont know if thats what they are called in english. (storytime) Anyhow this reminds me of something that happened last april when i was home alone studying for my hunters exam on my porch, when i in the corner of my eye see something about 200 meters away on the road over a hill next to the field, i saw it just as it walked over the crest and behind the hill, it looked like an overgrown fox with brown/red ish coloured fur, but it had way longer limbs and walked slouched over like an ape (kinda sideways), it kinda looked like a skinny man with fur, dont remember if i saw a tail. scariest experience ive had in my life since it looked straight at me before it walked over the hill and looked so weird!. It scared me so much i even went inside and locked the doors. Both my older brothers and father have seen animals they cant explain when i was younger, one time when my brother and father were out driving(?) horses in a cart something big jumped or flew over them as they were driving over that very hill, my dad described it as a big bird or bat and my brother thought it was some other animal like moose or wolf, but what animal could JUMP over a horse and cart and an entire road?

Dashcams. You need dashcams. Or some kind of good long range portable camera-scope you could mount on your rifle for such stories.

I am confident that I have seen big cats in the UK. The first time on the south downs I wasnt 100% sure, The second and third times were in Scotland and I am 99% sure it was a big cats on both occasions , much larger than a lynx though. I managed to track the second one for sometime at a distance of around 200m until it went into woodland.

There was a black panther near a wood near me in Worcestershire and the person that owns a massive firtree wood had a black panther on a trailcam years ago and they found a half eaten muntjac up a tree

I once saw a fox in my school when I was 6, this was in 2014 and I don't know if it was a fox but to me, I thought it was a lion and from that day, I just want to know so badly what it is, and my assume would be either a fox or a lynx, but I was very small then so it might've been a fox because I'm nearly the shortest in my school

European lynx have been reintroduced in uk

Back in the early 2000s out working me dog I remember seeing one in tyne and wear

There's every possibility your eyes didn't deceive you . A good few years ago I saw a puma crossing a field in Suffolk. After convincing myself I was wrong I checked online for sightings .Turns out 2 lads fishing came face to face with it ... A Lynx would make a nice fluffy bedside rug .😆

Animal activists released about 12 lynx from riber castle near Matlock Derbyshire they never got them all back I thought I saw what was a huge black cat about Alsatian size and have friends who have seen them also

I think they were going to put s lynx in Kent but there is a wolf sanctuary in Shropshire but it won’t be a wolf it could be a dog maybe but probably a lynx that’s let out of a house when people has them as a illegal pet or something escaped

I had a sighting of one in the west Midlands but i was extremely young so eh

We had a big black cat that was killing sheep the paw prints were as big as a 2 piece

Could it of been a big bengal or a Savannah cat

I saw a big cat, was about 16 years ago.

Time to get some trail cams !!!!

Bait and trail cam 👍🏻 only way to know for sure

there are a few species of very large domesticated cats that look ALOT like lynxs, but they are just very large house cats of an exotic breed, i cant remember the names but I will try and find out, dont want someone shooting what turns out to be an oversize house cat ahaha could you imagine the media fuckfest over something like that

I’ve seen a pretty big fox believe it or not

Its a "main Coone" pet cat, google them.

I saw a large black cat (I don't mean a domestic cat), a Puma I guess, bounding across a field back in 2004 - there was zero doubt what it was given the size, though I was in a car at the time. There's no reason for people to place these sightings into the realms of UFOs etc, we know a number were released in the past (80s).

Wouldn’t surprise me if it’s escaped from a private zoo. I’ve bumped into an escaped capybara on a Thames path in Buckinghamshire before. And an emu escaped from the same place. No word of a lie.

There is good video on KZfaq that shows the back end of a Lynxe running away in Oakland s college between At Alban's and Hatfield in Hertfordshire the best evidence yet I think.

Trail cam you're permission like your mi5 🤣

I have see what you seen its not a lynx I live in about , it's a cross between fox and a wild big cat I believe

Could it be a stray dog?

Brush they are like double the size of a fox 75cm tall 130cm long

Those are just wild cats lad, people referring to them as feral cats as well and they look intimidating and can be aggresive. Seeing one can scare the shit out of you if you not prepared as they are huge and that fur makes them look even more robust 🧔👍

did it have a tail?

If lynx isn't an indigenous specie, How did it get on the british isle, not swimming I guess and the channeltunnel neither.

You’re a couple of weeks early for this sort of video ;)

There's a beast of bucks in my area (Buckinghamshire) and it's attacking dogs. Legalize carry

Use sardines or tuna as bait

Chinese water deer ?

Lamb

bait and trail cam?

polecat ?