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

I can remember mum telling me when I was little taht one of the reasons why she didn't like walking up the dale on her own was because there had been pather sightings - all that I remember thinking was COOL and hoping that I could spot one for myself one day - alas, this is yet to happen...

If my neighbour came round saying that they'd seen puma prints - you'd have a hard time stopping me running roung to see them!! How brilliant - though I'd be pissed off when I had to point out to her that it was some other animal.

my dogs footprints look huge in the snow (and mud) so i think she is being slightly hysterical, but so are you.

stomps off through the snow in a huff

Where are all these lynxes?

I'm in Norfolk

There are lynxes in Norfolk? Fantastic - whereabouts? All over? Are they native or bred from escapees?

I'm going to Norfolk for Christmas (family live there). Are they dangerous? Would they live in Salthouse Heath?

Aha, I see Norfolk is TEEMING with all sorts of big cats Here

I will think twice before driving hme late at night across Salthouse Heath....

TheFenTiger - you can't just make one blurry appearance in 14 years and expect everyone to out you on the frnt of their Christmas cards, you know! You need to comit an atrocity or two, preferably within 200m of someone who has a camera.

OP do tell your kids

not only will they be ecstatic, they will refer to this Christmas as "the one with the puma" forever and ever

(and also probably spend the whole of this week gazing out of the upstairs windows swearing that they've seen it, thus leavig you free for mumsnetting Important Christmas Business)

People here think we've got a big cat in the wild every so often. There's even been a fuzzy, blurry pic of a shadow in the local.
They obviously have no idea of the devastation there would actually be to livestock etc if there really was one.

Good thinking about the reindeer prints though.

"Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!"

But which is more vicious- a puma or a bear?

There's only one way to find out...

Probably be tripping over large pussies all over Salthouse Heath Blu

yay! bear

...can't believe I just watched all of that

Ive lived in norfolk all my life and never seen a big cat .

There is ment to be a black panther living in Sandringham (Queen and co apparently used to release big cats there all the time to hunt them).

Though am more woried about coming face to face with Black Shuck the devil dog that roams Norfolk.

Norfolk seems to be a rather dangerous place to live

Sure it wasnt a reebok or an adidas .

3 prints? Now I just dont understand. In this weather - ie anything deeper than half a foot you dont really get prints - you get a long line as the tail moves through the snow, I know as we have observed our local fox family doing just this across our garden.

Where's Steve Backshall when you need him eh? He can come round right now and explain it to me in great detail...

the queen did whhhaaaattt??

the Queen hunts pumas?

springheeledjack, thats why Norfolk is infested with big cats. Not so sure if it was the modern royals who did it or a few generations back

We have The Beast of Essex. Loads of sightings over the years.

...yours have obviously wandered down from Norfolk, Alouiseg

No we have special Big Cats in Essex. They have Vajazzles and hair extensions.

Hmmmf stomps off and slays a few sheep and leaves trails of blood around
am also Norfolk girl(tiger!)Black shuckshudder