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Don't leave milk out overnight.

Sounds like it's a Puma, or some similarly large feline.

Awesome!

Maybe his cat was transformed into this beast by some kind of ooze or radiation. You know, like the Ninja Turtles.

HAHAHA.

It's a Geordie cat, visiting for the holidays. Take that shandy drinking southerners.

Kitty!

HAHAHA.

It's a Geordie cat, visiting for the holidays. Take that shandy drinking southerners.

Translationnnnnnnn PLEASE! :D

HAHAHA.

It's a Geordie cat, visiting for the holidays. Take that shandy drinking southerners.

Choice! :D

It was me.
Mwahahahaha!
Like it said, I'm no tame pussy. ;)

Probly this thing... http://postarchives.entensity.net/021405/cat.jpg

Probly this thing... http://postarchives.entensity.net/021405/cat.jpg

Bad link, no work!

Hmmm... most of these sightings are doubtful.
In this case basically the victem was attacked by "a big black thing" that he didn't get a good look at. Unless there's more evidence than is presented in the story (such as actual paw prints or a captured cat, for example) I'm going to remain skeptical. I will say this appears to one of the more believable sightings.



Anyone interested in UK sightings of big cats should read this: Why do thousands of us think we've seen big cats every year? (http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=624046)

It was me.
Mwahahahaha!
Like it said, I'm no tame pussy. ;)
I like a wild pussy... http://img227.exs.cx/img227/8438/pimp4tq.gif :D :D :fluffle: :p :fluffle: :D :D

I like a wild pussy... http://img227.exs.cx/img227/8438/pimp4tq.gif :D :D :D :D :fluffle: :p :fluffle:

Perv.

Me and my cousin seanus saw us a big cat in the bush one day, we chased it and blasted it with our 222's but it gvot away, I think it was a cat.

I made a song about a London cat:

*sings*
Cat in London.
Meow!!
Cat in the friken night!!!

Cat in London
Roar!
Cat with a deadly bite.

With your paws and your claws,
and your deadly jaws,
You've got me in your sights
and I've got no place to run.
And then you pin me down,
round in Soho town,
you're a mistress of the night,
were gonna have some fun.

Cat in London.
Meow. Meow!!
Cat in the friken night!!!
Ohh Baby yeah friken cat in the friken night.....


London cat baby.

Giant Cat loose in London.

Hmmmm... think maybe you can scare him off with poor taste in fashion?

:D

Hey Pluto! Good morning. :fluffle:
And you too, Potaria.

Hey Pluto! Good morning. :fluffle:
And you too, Potaria.

Meh, I'm always about...

Giant Cat loose in London.

Hmmmm... think maybe you can scare him off with poor taste in fashion?

:D

Meow

Hey Pluto! Good morning. :fluffle:
And you too, Potaria.
:fluffle: :p :fluffle:

good morning to you too, my lovely catwoman ;) :D

:fluffle: :p :fluffle:

*Gets on the train North to London* Here kitty, kitty, kitty!

Actually they believe the panthers etc. do exist cos they were released into the wild by owners when the Dangerous Animal License laws came in.

DOCTOR LIVINGSTONE:
Uhh,... I think I'd better come clean with you about this. It's, um,-- it's not a virus, I'm afraid. You see, a virus is what we doctors call very, very small. So small, it could not possibly have made off with a whole leg. What we're looking for here is, I think,-- And this is no more than an educated guess. I'd like to make that clear. ...Is some multi-cellular life form with stripes, huge razor-sharp teeth, about eleven foot long, and of the genus Felis Horribilis: what we doctors, in fact, call a 'tiger'.
PERKINS, PAKENHAM-WALSH, and AINSWORTH:
A tiger?!
EVERYONE:
A tiger?!
PAKENHAM-WALSH:
A tiger... in Africa?
AINSWORTH:
Hm?
PAKENHAM-WALSH:
A tiger in Africa?!
AINSWORTH:
W-- Ah, well, it, uh,-- it has probably escaped from a zoo. Mhm.

(c) Monty Python, "The Meaning of Life"...

*Gets on the train North to London* Here kitty, kitty, kitty!

Actually they believe the panthers etc. do exist cos they were released into the wild by owners when the Dangerous Animal License laws came in.

Only if they've managed to live around twice the average lifespan for the big cats, which is highly unlikely.

Have a look at the article linked in my post above (#12). The only confirmed "big cats" found in the UK have been small ones like Lynxs, leopard cats, and jungle cats (those last two are actual species fairly similar in size to domestic cats). And there are no confirmed cases of bigger cats out there. Just another UL, AFAIAC. (I'd buy into one or two having been released over the years, and those having been built up into the recent mass hysteria cases, but not a breeding population.)

But no clear pictures of a feral big cat have been taken, expert trackers have failed to confirm a single paw print as that of a big cat, and DNA evidence from the remains of livestock allegedly killed by big cats has suggested dogs or badgers. And few, if any, of the kills exhibited the classic go-for-the-throat signs of a big cat attack - many bear the marks of dogs, either ferals or the lurchers used by some lampers and livestock poachers.

The sightings, many sincere but few from those with wildlife expertise, come from all over the UK. In some cases, remote cameras with sensors have been set up but have never captured any big cat image. The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), has sent investigators to examine scenes of livestock kills, but found no evidence of big cats. Sarah Christie, carnivore programme manager at the Zoological Society of London, said: "A few years ago, we had a report of a lion on the loose in north London. We sent a crew up there with nets and so on. It turned out to be a ginger tom."

So whence are these big cats supposed to come? The traditional explanation is from exotic pet owners who have released them or allowed them to escape in the wake of the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976. But that was nearly 30 years ago, and the average life span of a big cat is about 15 years. Nor does the RSPCA "think there are big cats out there breeding".

Customs and Excise report no big cat seizures in the past four years, indicating few entering the country. The RSPCA says that cases of owners asking them to deal with exotic big cats are "extremely rare", and knows of only one recent case of big cats being rescued - two lynxes from a shed in Yorkshire in 2001. As for escapes from mainstream zoos, Ross Smitt of the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquaria said: "I can't think of any cases of big cats escaping off site in the past 20 years."

Ms Christie does concede that a big cat might come from "one of our less reputable small zoos or wildlife parks". The RSPCA agrees that short-term survival of a big cat is conceivable, as is the possibility of feral cats (and an unneutered tom is larger than the domestic cat) producing black off-spring. And, in Scotland, such animals could be a Kellas, a black cross between a wild and domestic cat.

Ms Christie "remains highly sceptical - 99 per cent, if not all, of these reports are rubbish. The whole issue is swamped by hysteria." As she says, after decades of sightings, "You would think there would be one fecal sample, one set of prints, but we have none of these things." Meanwhile, the believers go on believing and go on looking...

But it's been proved that wild and domestic cats can breed. So, a lynx plus a black moggie could give a big black moggie or small lynx.

I bet it looked like this....

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004Z3M2.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Wouldn't you be scared if that came out of the bushes at you? For me, it would be brown trousers time.

what a terrifying picture. That must be the beast.

Does the cat have a hat?

I bet it looked like this....

BAGPUSS

Wouldn't you be scared if that came out of the bushes at you? For me, it would be brown trousers time.

When I was a child I was actually terrified by Bagpuss.

This just in from the BBC:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/m.hodder/kittenkong.jpg

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/m.hodder/kittenkong2.jpg

HAHAHA.

It's a Geordie cat, visiting for the holidays. Take that shandy drinking southerners.

Nah: can't be - nowhere do the words 'wearing only a t-shirt despite the freezing weather' appear in the article.

Anyone interested in UK sightings of big cats should read this: Why do thousands of us think we've seen big cats every year? (http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=624046)

They are corporeal manifestations of the slumbering collective consciousness of Albion: the Tygers of Blake, and signify the urge to finally overthrow the dark satanic mills and build Jerusalem in England's green and pleasent land. Obviously.

When I was a child I was actually terrified by Bagpuss.

This just in from the BBC:
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Ah yes, attack of the kitten...anyone been to Hollywood FX, Universal Studios CA?

Of course if you looked at the science it wouldn't work...it's SA only squares when it's volume cubes, so the poor thing would overheat.

They are corporeal manifestations of the slumbering collective consciousness of Albion: the Tygers of Blake, and signify the urge to finally overthrow the dark satanic mills and build Jerusalem in England's green and pleasent land. Obviously.

Most excellent answer yet.