My own theory formed from what I've heard is that there are lynx, cougars, puma and leopards out there, in isolation, but not breeding pairs and not in sufficient numbers to have a broad enough gene pool to form a sustainable population.

It’s already been proven by a university doing dna test on a sheep carcass that came back for a puma gene .

I think there are plenty of big cats roaming quite comfortably in the UK countryside. The numbers missing from zoos would be testament to that. I don't believe we have breeding pairs, however, and this limits their presence. It is comforting to know that there seems to be no record at least that I am aware of that they have come into conflict with people. We do have, of course, developments in selective breeding of larger and larger domestic cats, some I am told close to the size of a small labrador. This recent phenomena is worrying as they are something of an unknown quantity in terms of their behaviour and what they might be able to reproduce with.

'The pussyline' are you guys taking the proverbial? I think there is little doubt that wild cats are roaming our countryside. Numerous sightings by teachers of leopards roaming outside some rural schools is a little disconcerting, though people are not their usual prey and I don't think we need to worry excessively. Leopards are, I understand, safe as long as you don't run away from them. My friend lived in Nairobi before a robust wire fence separated the national park from the capital. One day she strayed into the park and came face to face with a leopard. Knowing not to run, she did not. The leopard slowly approached her and, she said, seemed to escort her out of the park to the city, departing just before she encountered people again.

Seen and heard a large black cat in the new forest while walking with my parents and dogs on 3 separate occasions. Bloody scary.

A BLACK PANTHER LIVES IN BRECKSVILLE OHIO FOUNDED IN 1811

why not hire an experienced big cat tracker like in africa or in asia....surely there is and u need a big team for that operation

My Dad saw a Black Panther in Worcestershire back in the early 90s. It was an early summer morning, and the sun was just coming up as he went out for a cigarette while working a night-shift. As soon as he opened the factory back door, he spotted a big black cat about 40 feet away, disappearing around the back of the bins and into a field. He said he'd never been so scared in all his life, and it certainly made him stop smoking at work ✌️💯

I'm a HGV driver that lives in Dorset, growing up in a rural area there's always been rumour's of bigs cats I was some what a skeptic but had a sighting earlier this year whilst driving in Sherborne (north Dorset) was Definetly a big black cat about the size of a large dog maybe a German Shepard kinda size

Do you never have snow in the UK so you can track the cats? I live in Sweden where you can see lynx tracks in the snow every winter. I once found the remains of a moose calf up among rocks where moose cannot possibly climb. Many big cats carry prey up steep cliffs or up into trees where they can eat the animals undisturbed.

I think I saw a black panther or a big cat that was black about 4 years ago in a place called Castleton, I even saw dead sheep carcasses and everything I saw the big cat in the evening at about 8-9 o’clock if your still doing the investigation I think the farmers knew about it as they had all the electric fences on and they usually don’t so yeah you could probably ask them

My friend and i witnessed a very large black cat (3x larger than my Labrador) in the South Lake District a while back and have always been told we must have been smoking something, but over the years have heard other stories similar and realise how lucky we were to witness such an amazing beast.

We know big cats were released in the UK… apart from maybe some small hybrid feral species there isn’t going to be a breeding population… most of the big cats in the uk are dead now thank god.

A can definitely say was a panther 😮,well whats a panther,no such snimal exisits ,lol

0:09 My home town

Remarkable.

Im on the border of kent in the south east of the UK, about 15 year ago there was reports of big black or dark colour cat roaming around the woodland areas, ive not witnessed it but it caused panic amongst the people that live here👍

Im in the process of obtaining a DWA license from the local council

Panthers will not attack a badger they tend to back off.

I'll believe there are a few lynx running around Norfolk because there have been some found and shot there, like thetford is very forested and quite dense in places. But there aren't any big big cats roaming around the uk beyond maybe one escaped animal or two, certaintly not a population like some believe. i've only seen one big cat like creature in uk, i was on a bus going along a road that was bordered by crop fields. I saw something running in the left field, at first I thought it might be a dog when it was 100 feet away but as the bus started going by it, i saw it was very long and slim, nothing like a dog, it had a long tail which could only be a cat's tail, not fluffy like a dogs, it's face was triangular and the ears were triangular. There was no one in the field so it couldn't be a dog, and in the previous field before this one i'd seen some fallow deer and this looked to be as long as them, so maybe 4-5 foot in length minimum. I've never seen something like in uk again. If I had to guess it might have been a puma. Probably a dumped pet.

well im not going camping again

Shocked by the Northants headline at around 6 and half minutes. A long time ago now, maybe,1998. I was walking near Pitsford with the missus, when a large Black Cat, as big as a Lab, with a long tail drooped in the middle came walking from my right across the country lane about 20 feet away. It stopped, turned it's head and looked at me and then just went on across the lane into a field. I told the wife and we jogged down to where it went but it had disappeared into the hedgeline.

Thanks Guy's, very informative. <:o)

"naturally controlling" the native animals - that dude is clueless how introduced species destroy the native environment. They don't quietly fit in to the established natural order - they completely take over and eliiminate the native species.

Leave them alone they leave us alone .

There’s a cougar prowling around Bournemouth…….no knickers

Did he say that Americans use shotguns to shoot terrorists?? Hah

"Dead lion" If it was a dead lion, you'd get better pictures. End of story im afraid

Don't buy it. None of it. People see what they want to see. If there was a big cat roaming the uk, we'd know

That first photo. That's a bear not a cat, and there are no wild bears here. Fake

One cannot surely give any credence whatsoever to the indigenous theory. How?!?!?

"One puma, felicity was captured in scottland, and her origin was never found" An exotic pet then, come on

Annoying that the people who testify are all literally, without fail, sketchy

That European Linxs must be a very young one because is way to small to be an adult, could be maybe a Bob Cat?

In the early 2000s me and a friend saw a black panther cross the road and run up the hedge line just as you come out of waton on stone just after the railway bridge

In the summer of 2022, I was camping near the village of Brockenhurst in the New Forest. At approximately one o'clock in the morning, I heard a deep roar, and then some twigs braking. All went quiet for a minute and something was moving round my tent. The guy rope must have been hit because the tent shock. Then, the wall of my tent moved inward as if something was pressing against it. In addition, there was no wind. After this all was silent. The animal noise was nothing I know to be indigenous to Great Britain. I am convinced that it was a big cat. This is an honest account.

I live in Telford, Shropshire. In 2006 local newspaper The Shropshire Star published 2 articles about Big Cat sightings in Telford. These Big Cats were sighted between Dawley, Hinkshay and Telford Town Park. I made a video on my channel reading these 2 articles and since talked to a Dawley resident who had his own sightings of Big Cats in another part of Dawley in Telford.

6:30 that woman is smoking something, ofcourse a black leopard would make sense, if someone imported them they’d obviously want the rare

This is the weirdest fucking version of the lion king I have ever seen.

Can. They..survive, Big. Cats. Survive. In los Angeles. Ca..usa

Did they evolve from the same creature what has 4 fingers and a heel pad or is it convergent evolution?

Whilst I believe there probably are big cats in the UK, I think this bloke's talking rubbish. If this bloke was seeing them with such frequency, why not take a picture. Surely if he's seen thirty big cats on at least one occasion, he have had a camera or a phone.

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Need big cats for reforeststation,deer will eat new trees.

Fascinating

A FRIEND OF MINE HAS LIVED IN CALIFORNIA FOR 40 YEAR'S AND AS NEVER SEEN A PUMA ALTHOUGH THEY ARE THERE

I LIVE NEAR CANNOCK CHASE AND WHEN I WAS A KID I FOUND HALF A DEAD DEER UP A TREE THE TREE WAS ALL SCRATCHED UP AT THE BOTTOM THAT WAS IN THE 70s

When is it coming out?

I've seen something and all I know is, I know what it wasn't! And it wasn't: a dog, a fox, a badger, a deer or a stuffed animal.

I saw a massive cat the size of of a Labrador thst was running across the field in Wakefield and me and my whole family saw it and we all couldn’t beleive what we had seen. The way it ran so swiftly and how its tail moved with it. It was without a doubt not a cat or a dog.