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

Right, well I just had to help a friend and her kids down our dark, icy drive with a torch.

On the way back up alone, I heard rustling in the bushes. Can you guess what went through my mind, thanks to you lot?!!

My husband has just come home and showed me a picture on his phone of what appear to be Emu/ostrich footprints in the snow in Bolton!

My bil has an old friend who's family farm boar in Norfolk (I think). They have found livestock carcasses dragged up into trees. Like how cats do it. And boar aren't small.

was watching a wildlife programme with ds when he was 3, in which a yuge bear had smashed into the back of a 4x4 and was blithely scoffing picnic left in the boot

ds said: ooh, look at that norty mouse

I have seen muntjack deer north and south of Brandon. They look like v big dogs, but with the slopey look of big cats....

how does she know they were puma and not nike

haha ive been swithereing whether or not to type that

Ooh, I love stories about wild animals in the UK, always exciting. It fascinates me that there might be big creatures about!
DH and I planned a trip to the Abruzzo in Italy a few years ago solely because we'd read that there are still bears, wolves and wild boar in the forests.
DH saw a bear but I didn't :( Was devastated!!

Have not read the whole thread (sorry folks) but would just like to say that about 10 years ago my dad saw a puma on the edge of a field when he was walking the dog. He was within 20 feet of it and is quite sure about what he saw. He reported it to the police but they didn't believe him until about 5 other people saw it too.

There are big cats in mainland Britain! Exciting but scary.

This might have been said already, but there is some concern about these big cats moving into towns when they get short of food. We already have urban foxes and badgers - one day we might have urban big cats. There is a theory that big cats were released into the wild by rich owners in the late 70s / early 80s and, if this is the case, they seem to be breeding in the wild so the present generation could have no particular fear of humans.

Here comes a bit of blatant scaremongering: if these cats are old, sick or injured, they might decide to take the easiest, slowest-moving prey they can find - e.g. pets, small children...

We have muntjack in our garden! It makes the dog a bit

My father claims to have seen a large 'cat' out whilst fishing in the middle arse of no where (Somerset)He claims it just leap from one side of a wood to the other and was massive.We just nodded.He has a hip flask when he night fishes...

Think the south west has the highest amount of wild cat sightings recorded though

Friend of friend on fb has an update about finding strange, huge footprints in the snow.

Own up. Who went out with blown up rubber gloves last night?

YABU.

Puma Prints....did it say PUMA on them?