Shanks said no Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 A panther could be stalking the streets of West Lothian after a dog walker spotted a big cat - the second such sighting in a year. Bob Wallace, coordinator for the Scottish Big Cats group, who carry out investigations into big cat sightings from all over Scotland, said he received a report of a sighting at Appleton Parkway in Livingston last month. Bob said the dog walker saw a large black cat, which measured two-to-three metres in length. He is now appealing to members of the public to come forward if they too have spotted the animal elsewhere. According to the West Lothian Courier 15/8/13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indianajones Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 Appears the Pentland Panther returns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy-y Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 Two to three metres? A bloody big big cat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shanks said no Posted August 19, 2013 Author Share Posted August 19, 2013 Just hearing a helicopter is circling Ladywell, Livingston. Panther hunt or the twisted fire starter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottish_chicP Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Templeton Peck Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William H. Bonney Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William H. Bonney Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 **** you Templeton Peck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Templeton Peck Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 **** you Templeton Peck Great minds! (and both went for the first picture on the google search) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William H. Bonney Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 Great minds indeed! I love it when a plan comes together! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argyjambo Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 Was said Back panther wearing the customary black glove? & if so how could you tell? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Seeger Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 I don't know why these things are taken seriously. People always said their was a leopard in the Trossachs. Bollocks. How does a black panther get into Scotland? I'm sure a zoo or wildlife park would notice if they had a big cat missing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArcticJambo Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 A panther could be stalking the streets of West Lothian after a dog walker spotted a big cat - the second such sighting in a year. Bob Wallace, coordinator for the Scottish Big Cats group, who carry out investigations into big cat sightings from all over Scotland, said he received a report of a sighting at Appleton Parkway in Livingston last month. Bob said the dog walker saw a large black cat, which measured two-to-three metres in length. He is now appealing to members of the public to come forward if they too have spotted the animal elsewhere. According to the West Lothian Courier 15/8/13 Absolute NAP some daftie walking around in his slippers wearing Zoomies on his way to the papershop spotted a domestic cat. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sp78DsIOwc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¼½¾ Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 Appears the Pentland Panther returns. I saw a big black cat near Glencorse Reservoir a couple of years ago. If it was a domestic cat it was the biggest one I've ever seen. It wasny anything near two meters long though, maybe it was a baby then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indianajones Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 I saw a big black cat near Glencorse Reservoir a couple of years ago. If it was a domestic cat it was the biggest one I've ever seen. It wasny anything near two meters long though, maybe it was a baby then. Wild cats arent too uncommon in Scotland. We get quite a few sightings at work throughout the year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigC Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 I saw one when I was a kid. My dad lived in the borders just up river from Stobo. We took the dog (black lab cross) for a walk and she immediately jumped in the river, swam across to the other side and went to investigate. We couldn't figure out why until we saw a massive black animal too big to be another black lab, with a stocky build, moving like a cat, and the dog came sprinting back and wouldn't leave our side. When we got back to the house, my old man said a guy had stopped his car outside the house two weeks before and told him that he'd seen a panther, and my Dad just dismissed it as a nutcase that had seen a big dog, but now that we'd both something, he was inclined to believe there might have been something in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reaths17 Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 I don't know why these things are taken seriously. People always said their was a leopard in the Trossachs. Bollocks. How does a black panther get into Scotland? I'm sure a zoo or wildlife park would notice if they had a big cat missing. went into a garage when i was a lad and the guy getting served had an american puma on a lead, way bigger than an alsation dog, scared the shit outta me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig_ Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 Reminds me of the last big cat spotted in Essex: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Price Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 Pretty certain I saw a panther whilst playing golf at Piperdam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jambovambo Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 Wild cats arent too uncommon in Scotland. We get quite a few sightings at work throughout the year! I'm sorry but they are now extremely rare - http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/environment/wildlife/article3775034.ece Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Chae Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 Seen a few "big cats" near Dalavich, at Loch Awe. Scary stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GhostHunter Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 There's a big big cat prowling around Stirling area - have seen a huge cat jump over a railing near the road we live in - whilst that sounds a little hard to believe, it's not really given there are regularly deer being spotted in the greenfield areas IN the city. Not sure if it was a panther or not, but it was certainly about the same size, however was at night so the colour was difficult to say other than it was dark. Plenty of local moggies going missing as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cairneyhill Jambo Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 Reports of big cats in Scotland are a myth. There has not been one piece of evidence to confirm that they actually exist. If they were out there, there would be at least sheep carcasses left. Tests on ones that have been found were examined and were found to have been dead or dying and had been scavenged by foxes/badgers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Das Root Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 I don't know why these things are taken seriously. People always said their was a leopard in the Trossachs. Bollocks. How does a black panther get into Scotland? I'm sure a zoo or wildlife park would notice if they had a big cat missing. Plenty of private zoos back in the day, ended up falling into disrepair and the animals escaping. Victorians loved that sort of shit. These animals could be descendants of the original escapees. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Le Tissier Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 People buy animals as pets when the animal is a youngun. Then when it gets too big it either escapes or they release it into the wild. Florida is a prime example. Burmese Pythons are taking over the everglades Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Stinkfinger Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 Took this a few years back, was scared to go public with it in case folk thought I was a barmy. Terrifying ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GhostHunter Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 Took this a few years back, was scared to go public with it in case folk thought I was a barmy. Terrifying ! That reminds of the time I caught this coming up my stairs. Scared the shit out of me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Chae Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 That reminds of the time I caught this coming up my stairs. Scared the shit out of me. Jesus **** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shanks said no Posted August 21, 2013 Author Share Posted August 21, 2013 Saw one of these on Rothesay Terrace, West End, Edinburgh and had to look it up to see what it was It's a Pine Marten and shouldn't have been running around Edinburgh. They are not meant to be native to the area Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalamazoo Jambo Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 Was mauled by a cougar once. To be fair, I did end up marrying her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Johnson Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 I'm pretty sure there's no such animal as the black panther, it's just what people called black jaguars or leopards before they realised what they were and thought they were a different animal. Sent from my GT-P3110 using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabba Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 2-3 metres? Right you are then. The one in Edinburgh zoo isn't that big. WTF has its mum mated with, a liger? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Price Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Apparently a big black cat has been sighted by a teacher and a pupil in Dundee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Chae Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Apparently a big black cat has been sighted by a teacher and a pupil in Dundee I read this and the front door rattled. MUUUUUUUUUUUM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Old Tolbooth Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 2-3 metres in length aye? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricardo Quaresma Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Plenty of private zoos back in the day, ended up falling into disrepair and the animals escaping. Victorians loved that sort of shit. These animals could be descendants of the original escapees. Seems likely something like this; have heard of Panther stories going back 30 - 40 years; probably some private owner(s) who keep(s) re-capturing the buggers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bilel Mohsni Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 There are absolutely feral big cats loose in Britain. Even most previous sceptics admit this now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sterling Archer Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Power to it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graygo Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 There's a black Puma sitting outside my house right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Gordons Gloves Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 Was mauled by a cougar once. To be fair, I did end up marrying her. There's a bar not that far from my work that is supposedly full of cougars. However, no matter how many times I've been down there with binoculars etc ive yet to spot one. Just loads of woman in their late 30s to early 50s drinking at the bar... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Socrates Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 There are absolutely feral big cats loose in Britain. Even most previous sceptics admit this now. I think most people accept that there may be, or may have been, the odd one or two that were released or escaped. I don't think most people think there is a breeding population out there. The absence of dead big cats, or evidence of them preying on either livestock or deer suggests to me that there are very few, if any in the wild these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armageddon Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greedy_Jambo Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 It's just typical that none of the people claiming to have seen a big cat have a camera phone. There is some evidence going about though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umaswD-tOoc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev 1234 Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 On 19 August 2013 at 21:36, The Frenchman Returns said: A panther could be stalking the streets of West Lothian after a dog walker spotted a big cat - the second such sighting in a year. Bob Wallace, coordinator for the Scottish Big Cats group, who carry out investigations into big cat sightings from all over Scotland, said he received a report of a sighting at Appleton Parkway in Livingston last month. Bob said the dog walker saw a large black cat, which measured two-to-three metres in length. He is now appealing to members of the public to come forward if they too have spotted the animal elsewhere. According to the West Lothian Courier 15/8/13 Hi me and my wife were walking though woods at Houston estate Livingston on Saturday just as it was getting dark my lab. Saw something in the woodS running when we looked round we saw a black animal about same size as our dog and he chased it I had to shout him back as we don't know what it was but it was black all over and fast gave my wife a fright 10/11/2019 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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