A women has just knocked on the door & told me infront of my 3 children she found Puma sized prints in her garden.

[TheSleepFairy]

Thank fuck DD's don't know what a puma is!!!
Said negibour then went on about how huge they were & that she feared it was after her rabbits etc.

AIBU to think she is thoughless?

DD's are 8, 6 & 2 & currently think she found reindeer foot prints in her garden

do you have regular puma sightings where you live?

we do here in SE kent

Well, if they don't know what a puma is, it doesn't really matter.

I think you may be getting worked up about the wrong thing though.
FFS, you may have a PUMA in your garden!

A Yeti more likely with all this snow...

I expect its just prints that have got larger

I would not say that she is thoughtless tbh. If she really has seen HUGE prints then she is probably freaked out!

I can't believe you're more worried about the sensibilities of your happily ignorant children than you are about the evidence of a large cat in your garden? Won't somebody please think of the rabbits?

Fox.

You loon.

I don't think too many children have been eaten by Pumas on mainland Britain this year, so I wouldn't worry.

Thoughtless? Maybe just a little bit nuts

We have them here too in East Anglia. The Fen Tiger is quite famous.

I don't think she was thoughtless in the least. Not unless you are intent on creating hysterical children who feed on fear of the highly unlikely, at any rate.

Mad as cheese, possibly, myopic, quite likely, but not thoughtless.

I was walking the dog this morning and the biggest hugest dog I've ever seen bounded up to me for a stroke. It was like a cross between a lion and a bear! Unless she is an expert in animal paw prints she really shouldn't be bandying about the word puma.

I do agree though she was probably just freaked out and not thinking logically about your children listening.

PUMAS, real pumas, in the UK?

DH and I once woke at the bottom of the Grand Canyon and saw some large prints and were thinking OMG puma! ... then we realised they were too much in line and worked out actually they'd been made by a large toad hopping by our sleeping bags in the night. The same toad that DH had sleepily seen head on in the dark and momentarily thought was a snake

Surely someone would have noticed a big fuck-off puma wandering around. Could they be polar bear tracks instead? :)

YABU...why don't your 8 and 6 year olds know what a puma is?

I think you should follow the tracks and find out where the puma lives.

Then you can leave out some food so it's not ravenous and doesn't try to devour you.

Well, if she really thinks she's found evidence of pumas, I suppose she'd feel it would be unneighbourly not to pass the information on to you.

And I feel an eight year old should know what a puma is!

We have had a few puma sightings over the years.
I do think she could have waited until the children were in bed before knocking.
Appparently she knocked on a few neighbours this morning for them to take a look but didn't take any pictures - I want pictures before I get all hysterical.

Last sighting was at 2am last month by some pissed gentleman taking a shortcut across the marsh lands & then a few jumping on the band wagon more reports from late night -doggers dog walkers.

samay

can you get hold of David Attenborough?...I'm sure he could identify the dog puma footprints