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BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Glasgow, Lanarkshire and West | Policeman takes 'big cat' video

Did they forget the word for dog?

sarasquares

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Its funny that the only evidence ever presented is a grainy picture or a background that does not show the 'cat' in scale


Its prolly the Lock Ness Monster

SJ_Skyline

That's a cat alright, just look at how it walks - like it owns the bloody place

sarasquares

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I want to know why the guy videoing the cat is panting so much

SJ_Skyline

Read the article Squaresy: He ran back to his car to fetch his camera/phone.

sarasquares

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Thanks for that

Miniman

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Normally I'd agree, but with the railway line you can estimate its size. Assuming its a standard railway gauge 4ft 8.5 inch (West Highland line?), then the big cat is hardly that big. At one point it is length on and doesn't appears to reach from rail to rail including tail. A full grown adult black panther would be as bigger than the gap/gauge excluding the tail. This one is smaller. It's a domestic moggy, not big or fierce!

al4x1

he was knocking one out at the same time he was that excited.

It was a cat but it wasn't that big probably just a big domestic moggy or maine coon

dpb

Which would explain the choosen equipment for filming - best video footage ever , what

scunnered

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Its a rare "Kellas cat".
I saw one myself a few years ago.
They are a bit bigger and and have a longer tail than a normal domestic cat.

Devildog

You know its bad enough that "you English" can't say "loch" correctly, but at least try and spell it properly

DYK

I was expecting something the size like a werewolf from dog soldiers....

Steve_PPP

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definately a cat - can tell from the way it walks, and its bigger than a domestic cat. but its not massive.....

haggis muncher

Gordo

it wags its tail in the first few seconds - looks black lab to me

TopBanana

.. and he's a fat ******

unclebuck

LOL - that's why sightings are so rare...

He's always locked up.... I'll get me coat...

Tenby

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these stories are always funny. i think i saw bigfoot last weekend

scunnered

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These very rare cats were first discovered when one was trapped and shot in 1984 near Kellas in Morayshire. DNA tests have proved them to be a hybrid between a Scottish wild cat, and a feral sub species of domestic cat. They are however larger than both.
There's an example of one in a museum in Elgin.

EddScott

As the cat is by the railway, I decided to ask on one of the model railway forums I use if they could judge the size. This is what they came up with.



If its about half the length between the two rails its about 2ft long. Its big, but not big cat big.

billythekid

Defo a Kellas, but quite a big one IMHO.

Leslie

I think it is a cat the way it moved.

I saw a large cat very similar to that when I was returning from sea trout fishing about 0130 am. I was on my motor bike and when I came out of a blind corner it was sitting in the road in front of me. I did not want to stop so I dropped into second and accelerated to go past it. Its head was about the height of my handlebars as it was sitting. Just as I reached it, it sloped off over the bank hedge and out of sight.

I saw it once more in daylight on the way down a long hill and it was in a field high up on my left. The cows were taking no notice of it.

I have since met three people whom I trust who have also seen the same creature in the neighbourhood. One is a farmer and he said it was after his chickens. The farmer who owns the field near where I saw it that night won't keep any lambs in the field any more.

Les

Simon 69

Perhaps its a Scottish wildcat (felis silvestris grampia [disputed] / felis silvestris silvestris)? Theyre bigger than domestic cats, I believe, at up to 800mm long, up to 8 kilogrammes in weight and with a shoulder height of up to 350mm: thats a big *****!