My dog just chased a ...

[FroOOOOOtshoOOOOOOts]

actually I'm not sure what it was!

As I tried to gather my thoughts and my spaniel from where i was stood It looked like a mutant longhaired tortoiseshell fox!

It was larger than a cat, smaller than my springer. It did look like a cat. (So much so that I phoned dh to check it wasn't our Persian come out to tease the dogs. )
But it was too big to be a cat and too dark brown and fluffy to be a fox. What could it have been?

a big cat? I mean a big domestic cat, not like a puma or anything, rofl...you get some pretty mahoosive cats

at big cat!

Like the beast of Bodmin but the mutant cat of Cambridgeshire! (I'm actually in Suffolk but that didn't go so well!)

could it have been a fox though? we passed a fox the other day that was just casually strolling through the woods in broad daylight.

luckily hunter jrt didnt see it despite being off lead next to me

Maine Coon cats are quite large I believe.

The panshanger puma?

A badger in disguise?

Could have been a ocelot or other medium large foriegn species that got released years ago and has been breeding with local cats.

We have a black leopard near us.

Only just come back to this thread at badger in disguise!

Maybe it was a Maine Coon.
A Scottish Wild cat in Suffolk? Do they come this far, I thought they were tabby.

A panshanger puma? I googled it but it just gave pictures of a football team and it definitely wasn't wearing a football kit.

I think it will forever remain a mystery. But I shall keep my camera at the ready for the next few dog walks just in case!

It was fluffier than an Ocelot but could have been a Persian Ocelot

Definitely a badger in disguise as a Persian Ocelot :)

Badgers have to be in disguise now they know a cull is on the cards.

Maine Coon cat, definitely. They are very fluffy and enormous! My in-laws have five and the biggest of theirs is easily as big as a fox.

That's right Fluffycloud! I saw one the other day in disguise as my son.

you saw a badger disguised as your son?

Where did it get the costume from?

From his bedroom obviously.

(I fear I have started down a path which I cannot keep up so will retire now. It was funny at the time.)