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Old 27-08-2012, 12:24 PM
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is this genuine
Big cat remains found by dog walker in Scotland - Mirror Online

and i know alot of people including myself who have seen big black cats in the north of scotland

i have seen them 3 times and my relatives have also seen them, they are black and about the size of a labrador has anyone on here seen them

this is not a troll i genuinely have seen them
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Old 27-08-2012, 06:19 PM
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Looks more like an otter to me.
The legs are too short for a cat i would say.
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Old 27-08-2012, 06:34 PM
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Looks like some kind of mustelidae so like bbav said an otter or perhaps pine marten
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Old 27-08-2012, 06:36 PM
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I thought otter too without even reading the article.
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Old 27-08-2012, 06:55 PM
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tbh i thought that was fake and yeh it does look like an otter, but what i really want to know is if anyone else has seen the big black cats that i have seen and i've seen them with my own eyes so i know it was genuine
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Old 27-08-2012, 11:08 PM
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The dentition looks definately feline
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I haven't personally seen anything like this on my holidays in Scotland, but once when I was young my parents had to ram on the breaks as a creature ran in front of them. To their description it was reddish-brown with a large, bushy tail, but looked nothing like a fox, and was much larger.
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Old 29-08-2012, 09:12 AM
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Not in Scotland but I have seen Panthers near dover in Kent. We have had quite a few over the years so they are definitely about and if they are fairly close to big towns etc (within 5 miles) then I imagine they will have a field day in Scotland.
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Old 29-08-2012, 09:23 AM
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that picture looked like an otter or mink/pine martin type animal. also... why would there be a bunch of mutilated bird remains so close to the 'cats' remains... seems a bit weird, surely the time its taken for the animal to decompose the birds bodies would have done the same but quicker.

when i was little me and my dad saw what looked like a big cat while out hillwalking, i don't know if what i saw was some kind of panther, i was only around 12 or something, it could have been a dog but my dad also swears he's seen one up in fife when he was in his teens.

whenever something turns up on the news about big cat sightings he rambles on about the time he saw one.
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Old 29-08-2012, 01:31 PM
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Tail looks very much like an otter tail, the short legs also, and when looking at skulls of otters etc. it definitely fits...

There was most certainly a time when there were big cats released and surviving in the wild, there maybe some around still I suppose, but none of the proof of recent times has come to anything.
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