Photo of one of Britain's wild Big Cats taken in July 2007 from a distance of 175 metres

BIG CATS

Posted by Jon King on Dec 04, 2008

Tagged with: big cats, mystery, myth & legend, unexplained, weird nature

Are Britain’s Big Cats responsible for mutilating sheep? Certainly evidence for the existence of Big Cats in the wild in Britain is extensive. Have you ever seen a Big Cat – on the Yorkshire Moors, Exmoor, Dartmoor…?

Big Cats In Britain

We realize it would be stretching things if we were to describe Big Cats — leopards, jaguars, pumas — as belonging to Unexplained Mysteries or Weird Nature, per se. Or even Myth & Legend.

But what if the big cats were seen to be living in Britain, in the wild, on the Yorkshire Moors, maybe, or on Exmoor in Devon, or anywhere else in the green and pleasant land for that matter? That would be slightly out of place, wouldn’t it?

Certainly there’s plenty of evidence to suggest this is the case. Literally hundreds of reported sightings of big cats living in the wild in Britain have been logged over the years, including some pretty impressive photographs, to boot.

Only recently, in November 2008, Somerset’s Western Daily Press reported that a mystery big cat was ‘believed to be responsible for destroying 28 … pedigree sheep and dozens of others in a grisly three-week spate of killings in Somerset’.

What we’re hoping to do, of course, is capture a mystery big cat on film — with a little help from you guys, naturally…

image source and further information: Big Cat Monitors