Big Cats on The Loose in Britain ft Rick Minter #25

[@msiide0150]

I was on a train in Leeds on the way to London in 2020 about 5mins after the train set off, I saw the back of a big black cat on a garage going past some houses. I thought I was seeing things. Even looked around to see if anyone else had seen it. Always had it in the back of my mind, and then about a year ago, I got curious about Britain's big cats, and I saw a video someone posted saying they saw one in leeds around the same time. I am 100 % convinced at what I saw, and seeing the video a few years later confirmed it for me.

[@curleex3838]

Ive seen a caracal, I’m a keen bushcrafter and have been for many decades and few yrs ago i watched a caracal cross a sand quarry by me, i thought it was a puma at first but upon research i believe it to be a Caracal cat, I’ve seen bobcats in Devon many times, i purchased some game cams as a result trying to get the money shot but covid and lockdown hit and since then I’ve sadly seen nothing.!

[@radicalcartoons2766]

Rick's podcast, Big Cat Conversations, is highly recommended. I've had 2 experiences, visual and aural, in South West England.

[@raymondpenalver7095]

So loving all these podcasts your doing Jack, please keep them coming 🙏

[@MichaelNicol-me8op]

Great podcast, I love listening to Rick, iv shared this in numerous bigcat groups on fb, hope it helps 😊

[@wildlifeexposedtv5895]

Thanks

[@benjaminbuckley2077]

Best interview ive heard in ages.. is there any updates to this now its approaching 1year ago

[@kevinwebb6338]

I was diving along the M4 and spotted a Lynx that was stalking for something it had spotted in the farmers field. There was no mistaking that this was a Lynx as I had a really good look at it, and it was just the other side of the fence some thirty feet away. Just unbelievable.

[@richardland9668]

I’ve problem been very fortunate to see you large black cats in Denton Northamptonshire in central Norway in done Freese and Galloway and Comrie Perthshire… and in Northampton, an animal which looked very much like a mountain lion..

[@edwardtreadwell3859]

Which area of Northampton did you see one?.

[@MarsOatom-oy8ze]

Their prowling east Birmingham. Not far from the airport. They use the railway tracks and forestry. If the deer 🦌 can hide in the daytime, then the apex predator has no problem.

[@edwardtreadwell3859]

I have seen Black Leopards to the east side of Birmingham. Plenty of deer and rabbits for them.

[@davieboywassup]

I’ve just seen one the other night at 5am walking down my street. I am next to a nature reserve with a lot of deer. This is in Kirkintilloch near Glasgow. Is there anywhere I can report this?

[@progressivebusiness4537]

I don’t know why people find it hard to accept there are big cats in the UK. I’m from Cape Town, South Africa. We have wild lynx on Table Mountain, a relatively small mountain range 100% surrounded by coast and city. The live there and avoid people living on small mammals. The hunt at night and avoid humans mostly. They have been captured on camera traps. On another mountain range on the other side of Cape Town we have leopards in the wild. Even though it’s a population of 3 million people and there are farms on the outskirts you still get leopards around. They have also been photographed and occasionally hit by cars. Leopards are highly adaptive and can survive on small mammals etc and they will generally try to stay away from people. Lions and tigers would be a problem as they are not scared of people and would quickly reveal themselves. But lynx and leopard are 100% likely to have been here for decades. Escaped servals and other small cats too. Maybe even jaguar and puma. All solitary, human avoidant. All you need is for more than 10 to have been released overtime and you’d have enough genetic diversity to have a healthy breeding population.

[@bennyozz]

I believe we have big cats in Britain I send a lots of nights in the countryside fishing lakes miles from built up areas had all sorts of animals around me. My question is would we not hear them calling? I can hear a fish jump at 150 yards but never heard anything I would have said was a cat.

[@S.Trades]

A female in heat, will "scream" in the night, calling for a mate. Lots of people haven't seen one, but that doesn't that mean they aren't around.

[@tommygbaby9830]

They’ve been heard on numerous occasions. And recorded on occasions which have been verified by specialists in the field who study these cats in native countries.

[@goblinbollocks2838]

​@@tommygbaby9830 is there anywhere these recordings are available to listen to and any way of knowing it isn't simply a recording of a cat in it's native habitat someone has uploaded claiming it's in the UK

[@Blankingfisherman]

@@bennyozz mountain lion doesn't roar it sounds weird esp female

[@S.Trades]

Puma are a "lesser cat" which means they cannot roar. They do however make a range of noises, including a bird like call, to their kittens. ​@@Blankingfisherman

[@tommyfoley462]

Rick is well informed on this topic.he is the bible of uk big cats

[@davemonday5381]

The Hollywood mountain lion was shot about a year ago. The authorities decided he was getting too old and even though he’d never done any harm. Decided he could turn on people because he was getting older and slower. And food may have been harder to catch. They did try to catch him but couldn’t. Still seems wrong to have killed him

[@rogerbritton2106]

We have a lot of wild animals in the UK, big cat's, bobcats, Wallabies etc, they were let go by zoos in the war and have lived quite well among people and don't believe any of them are a threat,,, people are more of a threat to others than the animals are..

[@townstunsltd6727]

Regarding the threat of Pumas and Leopards to humans? //38:22 "...we're a bother and a hassle to them!" //42:10 "...they're shy and wary of us! //54: 46 (lynx) "...they're pretty savvy..." // 51:27...! // Thank you gentlemen. Appreciated content. All the best to you. Thanks.

[@GG-jw8pt]

So a lady reports a big cat, and this guy waits a week to investigate? And as for guard cats, it was probably only one wannabe gangster who had one on a chain and not on the loose 'guarding'. 😂

[@goblinbollocks2838]

As a disclaimer I haven't watched this yet, just read the comments, however I've watched a lot on this over the years. My opinon is it's something that intrigues, fascinates and excites people so they want to believe it and they find ways of convincing themselves it could be true. One comment here talked about a couple of species being "human avoidant." The main reason this subject is even given the attention it is and people even consider the possibility is because of the probably thousands of people out there who've claimed to see big cats in the UK over the decades, so on the one hand they're human avoidant, on the other hand, the reason we even believe they might live here is because thousands of people have seen them. No pictures, no videos, no encounters that have gone awry even for a dog if not for the human walking it, none hit by cars, no bodies found, no skeletons found. The experts who supposedly confirm X, Y, Z in certain instances as "this was some sort of big cat," are never in these videos. It's always eyewitness claims or assertions from alien big cat enthusiasts. In other videos I've seen some explanations given as to how we do have big cats here but there's none of the things on that list in existence - could be remembering this wring but an example of a credible one was a mountain lion expert who I think very much disbelieved there were big cats here but said he'd been studying them for 20 years in mointain lion country and never come across the body of one that wasn't shot or hit by a car - but for the most part the reasons given just come across again as people who want to believe something so they're deluding themselves.

[@S.Trades]

Tell that to Rosemary Rhodes.

[@edwardtreadwell3859]

What about awful lot of nonsense you talk. They are real and found all across Britain. Even Ireland, France, Spain and Germany all have reports of big cats. As for bodies, photos and video, there is plenty out there if you bother to do your research .

[@Outta_Towna]

Its easy to say there are none until you see one!

[@tinabarber1385]

Think right at the end of your video it’s a fox

[@andreasaunders197]

With respect to bodies, the unofficial policy regarding killing protected species is "3 S"- Shoot, Shovel, Shut up. The last part is what trips most people up.

[@marionsadventuresincameraland.]

Quick to dismiss jaguars considering they tend to stay with a carcass until it has all been eaten therefore leaving no evidence and populations of melanistic jaguars where there are larger numbers of cats will breed smaller offspring if isolated , this is the case in parts of south america.Quite often puma sightings will be mis-identified leopards , so a sighting from a distance of a large fawn coloured cat could very well be a spotted leopard .Is around 500 a very small number or possibly something we should be concerned about ? "if you're in that informal economy " then i'd want a black jaguar....not quite sure equates to don't know.The way it was mounted says it is a british cat explain more ,well it looked british in the photo. he doesn't relay much trust in his sources of information to me ,,p22 is dead and has been for several months , he was euthanized..Great podcast though .

[@234cheech]

cats scratch find scratch marks thay must be signs but no one ever mentions the scratch marks it is a natural thing for any cat to leave wares the evidence of scratching trees

[@edwardtreadwell3859]

People do report scratch marks. I'm surprised you weren't aware of that.

[@mackd2812]

@@edwardtreadwell3859 collect hairs from the scratch-trees for DNA.

[@progressivebusiness4537]

I don’t know why people find it hard to accept there are big cats in the UK. I’m from Cape Town, South Africa. We have wild lynx on Table Mountain, a relatively small mountain range 100% surrounded by coast and city. The live there and avoid people living on small mammals. The hunt at night and avoid humans mostly. They have been captured on camera traps. On another mountain range on the other side of Cape Town we have leopards in the wild. Even though it’s a population of 3 million people and there are farms on the outskirts you still get leopards around. They have also been photographed and occasionally hit by cars. Leopards are highly adaptive and can survive on small mammals etc and they will generally try to stay away from people. Lions and tigers would be a problem as they are not scared of people and would quickly reveal themselves. But lynx and leopard are 100% likely to have been here for decades. Escaped servals and other small cats too. Maybe even jaguar and puma. All solitary, human avoidant.

[@julzhepburn3688]

@@progressivebusiness4537 country people see them quite often around cambrigeshire and the fens ,, The land is literally teeming with rabbits, hare and deer ,, They would barely have to make an effort to eat ,,, In Wales in the black mountains they find dead sheep up in tall trees ,,🤣 That aint Foxes 🤣