Yes. I don’t get people saying it’s walking on the fence, it’s clearly the other side, you can see the pointed fence palings. If you had access to the site the angle from the camera to the fence might be instructive for scale. At one point you can see the tail and it does look very big-cat like. Although it is such a crappy security camera video it does look like it could fit a puma etc.
. I think I’m right in saying that a dead puma or two have been found in the past, supposedly dating from when the licensing of “dangerous wild animals” came in?
Maybe not bobcat, clue being in bob
They look like domestic cats to me. However, there are some very big domestic ‘breeds’ of cat. We had one here several years ago and you would be forgiven for thinking it was some sort of smallish “big-cat”. It ended up dead on my grass verge one (rta presumably) and it was interesting to see that though it had a large frame it was quite skinny.We have Blink CCTV that the fox triggers when he comes in. I also use a trailcam.
On the big cat theme, we've had large cats here. Now whether or not they are large domestic cats or actually wild, I don't know. We'd not been living here long and I experienced 'something' slinking over our fence, which is 6 foot tall. It was too big for a domestic cat and it growled.
A few years ago, my Wife and I were walking the dogs at a remote spot that we used to take them everyday. We saw something on the track in the distance, near to where we'd left the car. No sign of it when we got there a few minutes later. There's probably a rational explanation for all this but I am open minded.
Last week, we got this on the Blink, probably 2 domestic moggies but I've never seen 2 together like this and both black. One looks smaller and younger to the other. The one that walked along my daughter's pool, you can see its ears just above the top edge of the pool. That pool is 16 inches tall. Pumas they are not but they are near fox size.
They have a wild sense about them.
I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions.
View: https://youtu.be/aQYJEaXi3Cs
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No wonder you are billy nomates. I'd imagine people would give you a wide berth when out exercising them
Yes. I don’t get people saying it’s walking on the fence, it’s clearly the other side, you can see the pointed fence palings. If you had access to the site the angle from the camera to the fence might be instructive for scale. At one point you can see the tail and it does look very big-cat like. Although it is such a crappy security camera video it does look like it could fit a puma etc.
it’s very hard to judge size from these IR blurry video cams. Mine’s better than that but on the IR I can’t tell if I’m seeing moths or bats (plenty of bats here usually).
The fact she has a dog is a plus for it being a big-cat, dogs being favourite fodder for them and ’normal’ cats tend to avoid gardens with dogs.
On the whole my vote goes to big-cat
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That second link says:It looks as big as the fence in the grainy picture...big tail....
Is there a big cat on the loose in Helensburgh?
HAVE you spotted any big cats on your walks around Helensburgh recently?
SIGHTING: Multiple 'puma' sightings in Glasgow park with prints found - Puma Watch
A woman says a puma jumped over her son's head then onto a tree while they were watching deer in Carmyle Park, Glasgow.pumawatch.co.uk
Dunno but all in the same approx locale - and these big cats can span huge distances. There's probably a family of them in SW central belt.
The first thing anyone in the area should do is to go and try to collect hair samples, particularly from the fence at the point where is crossed and the other fences. DNA would tell them what it was.I agree. I see a big cat there.
Terrified woman reports 'multiple sightings' of 'black puma' in Glasgow park
The woman says she spotted the big cat while watching a deer at the park with her son.www.dailyrecord.co.uk
There is precedence for a Puma in Scotland
Big cats: The hunt for the puma caught roaming the Highlands in 1980
She was the ‘wild’ puma who became a celebrity after being captured in the Highlands 40 years ago. Felicity, as she came to be named, had been roaming the
99.9 % agree.
Gambler John Aspinall bought and owned a bona fidelity zoo in Kent, it’s still going as far as I know. Famous for all the keepers that get killed!
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Yes. I don’t get people saying it’s walking on the fence, it’s clearly the other side, you can see the pointed fence palings. If you had access to the site the angle from the camera to the fence might be instructive for scale. At one point you can see the tail and it does look very big-cat like. Although it is such a crappy security camera video it does look like it could fit a puma etc.
it’s very hard to judge size from these IR blurry video cams. Mine’s better than that but on the IR I can’t tell if I’m seeing moths or bats (plenty of bats here usually).
The fact she has a dog is a plus for it being a big-cat, dogs being favourite fodder for them and ’normal’ cats tend to avoid gardens with dogs.
On the whole my vote goes to big-cat
The Daily Record site is truly horrible
. If you are only seeing that shot I’m not surprised you think the cat is on the fence. That’s where the video starts and in the video, if anything, it seems to be ‘looking over’ the 3 foot fence! As the video plays you can see the neighbours garden between the fence and the cat, it then jumps over the fence at the very bottom of the screen..
The Daily Record site is truly horrible
The video often refuses to play for me and then goes to ads. Maybe it’ll be on YouTube? The thing that is odd is why there is no footage before but that happens if the camera is movement activated rather than continuous
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. A pity because it seems genuinely interesting.
Kellas cat. This is measured at 16 inches shoulder height. It’s stuffed of course so hard to know how well it was done but it looks ‘chunkier’ than the usual. It’s a Wild-Cat x Domestic.We have Blink CCTV that the fox triggers when he comes in. I also use a trailcam.
On the big cat theme, we've had large cats here. Now whether or not they are large domestic cats or actually wild, I don't know. We'd not been living here long and I experienced 'something' slinking over our fence, which is 6 foot tall. It was too big for a domestic cat and it growled.
A few years ago, my Wife and I were walking the dogs at a remote spot that we used to take them everyday. We saw something on the track in the distance, near to where we'd left the car. No sign of it when we got there a few minutes later. There's probably a rational explanation for all this but I am open minded.
Last week, we got this on the Blink, probably 2 domestic moggies but I've never seen 2 together like this and both black. One looks smaller and younger to the other. The one that walked along my daughter's pool, you can see its ears just above the top edge of the pool. That pool is 16 inches tall. Pumas they are not but they are near fox size.
They have a wild sense about them.
I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions.
View: https://youtu.be/aQYJEaXi3Cs
