For thinking that this is just a bloody cat?

[TheGMF]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30035666

A women says she saw a tiger in supermarket car park near Paris.

a) no one else saw it.
b) no tigers have been reported missing.
c) it looks like a cat.

I have a fluffy cat.

1.In winter he looks thick set round the neck
2.You can't see the fluff from a small distance, so he just looks bigger
3.He holds his tail down when walking
4.he is big, and looks pretty big cat ish at times from a distance.

1. I haven't seen him this morning.....

It looks a bit like my fluffy cat. If he wasn't lying here beside me I would be suspicious that he's been jetting off to Paris...

Link fail!

m.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/30041408

Wasn't there a case, some years back, where a helicopter was sent to investigate reports of a tiger on open land (maybe in Devon - Bodmin moor maybe, or somewhere in Yorkshire - I forget), and it turned out to be a stuffed toy tiger? Apparently they realised it probably wasn't real when it flipped over in the downdraft from the rotors!

Domestic cats generally walk with their tails up, big cats not so much

My domestic moggie always had his tail down low like a big cat.

Could be one of the bigger domestic cat breads like a Maine coon.

I wondered about a Maine Coon too. We have a ragdoll ginger tom and the fur round his neck is like a lion's mane, in the middle of winter he'd look far more thick set than the cat in the photo.

Unneutered toms have incredibly thick-set necks. Ours was only neutered as an adult and he looks very different from a tom neutered at 6 months.

The ears looked slightly more rounded on one of the other pictures, but I don't think that necessarily makes it a tiger. A lynx perhaps.

If they are following footprints, I'd like to know how big they are.

Is that the alleged wild beastie? Naaah. It's a cat! A saucer of milk, Dreamies and a warm fire and that critter will be purring in someone's lap!

The picture on he bbc website does make it look tigerish i must admit!

Woah. That is not a domestic cat.

That's the picture I was looking at, pickle.

I once met a bloke whilst walking my dog when I lived in Milton Keynes. We got chatting on the subject of big cat sightings in the area and he told me he'd seen what he thought a Labrador in his back garden so he trotted out with a lead and a couple of bonios only to be confronted by a lynx when he got there!

I think the blurring on the close-up gives it tigerish features that it doesn't really have. I wonder if they have le Dreamies in France?

I would say the ears are too small in proportion to the head for a normal cat as well.

TheGMF
you cannot see the face of the cat, its facing away. The small version you put up looks like the cat is facing you as you can only see the outline. The larger blown up version, although blurred, shows it is the back of the head we are seeing.

tbh, any of these pictures could be my cat.

All it takes is a cat with thicker fluffier fur

I take on board the pawprints etc make the experts think it is a bog cat, but all those pictures?
They look like my cat in silhouette

From what I've read she reported a 'big cat that looked like a lynx' but it was the 'specialists' who examined the tracks who said it was a young tiger.

We have a couple of larger than normal cats. Both are fluffy, thick in the neck with big paws.

Points up to previous post ^

Aaarghh, lion. And a, er, lynx. Both v v lovely though.

Dreamies are called "Catisfaction" in France. A much better name, non?

Looks like a normal cat to me. Thick around the neck, but it could just be one with a less delicate build, like on I know nicknamed "no neck the pig cat", lol.