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Merged Alien Big Cats in the UK?

I watched the video on the BBC website. It didn't strike me as being paticularly big. The way it daintly trots along the rail certainly looked more moggie than monster.
 
Dude sounds pretty excited...he couldn't have dubbed in a soundtrack or something?
Eye of the Tiger?
 
While the Moggy Monster theory is attractive, my bets would be on the vid being a moggy of the Siberian Forest Cat, Norwegian Forest Cat or Maine Coon Cat persuasion.
 
Ersby said:
I watched the video on the BBC website. It didn't strike me as being paticularly big. The way it daintly trots along the rail certainly looked more moggie than monster.
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Have to agree - doesn't look that big to me.
 
It's a housecat. People making "alien big cat" claims don't truly understand how large leopards, jaguars and cougars are. The cat in this video also has a walk cadence unlike the real thing. It may be a rather large moggie, but it reveals its height when alongside the rail. Too much of the legs are concealed by the rail when it is briefly walking there. Once the cat has stepped onto the rail, we can see that its legs are not much taller than the rail itself.
 

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The setting is known, so size comparisons could be made on location.
 

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That is, I'm fairly sure, the first time I've ever seen a critical analysis done of anything which included an indication of "Moggie Height"

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ah, I think this is a domestic housecat, but I also think that the UK now has big cats as a native species. This is because I have researched this in depth before.

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Akhenaten said:
"Touch not the cat bot a glaive"

'tis a quiz! Takers?
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"There's no "fear" in "MacPherson"!"

I have to stay the animal strikes me as a perfectly normal, although large, housecat. It even has that type of behaviour. I don't see it being "over 4' in length" like the one guy claims. It just looks like a big kitty to me.
 
Darat said:
doesn't look that big to me.
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Nor to me. The BBC article quotes Shaun Stevens of the "Big Cats In Britain" group:

"Knowing the width of the rail tracks in Chris's video is 4ft 8.5in, the animal photographed by him is clearly in excess of 4ft and as such is certainly not a domestic cat."​

Hm... almost as long as the width of the rail tracks? Look at the length of the beastie (without the tail) and the apparent width of the tracks:

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Perspective is tricky. In this image, I think the cat is moving more or less perpendicular to the line of sight, so there's no foreshortening. The rails are certainly not perpendicular to the line of sight, so there is some foreshortening (exactly how much, I can't say). I'd estimate the length of the cat to be at most 1/2 the width of the rails.

So here's one more vote for "just a big kitty".
 
Michael C said:
Nor to me. The BBC article quotes Shaun Stevens of the "Big Cats In Britain" group:

"Knowing the width of the rail tracks in Chris's video is 4ft 8.5in, the animal photographed by him is clearly in excess of 4ft and as such is certainly not a domestic cat."​

Hm... almost as long as the width of the rail tracks? Look at the length of the beastie (without the tail) and the apparent width of the tracks:
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cats are usually measured from nose to the tip of the tail,
from wiki
Cats average about 23–25 centimeters (9–10 in) in height[14] and 46 centimeters (18.1 in) in head/body length (males being larger than females), with tails averaging 30 centimeters (11.8 in) in length.[15]
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the longest domestic cat species is the maine coon cat.
the world record holder is 48 inches long
http://www.verismocat.com/htmscripts/leo-guinness.htm

so if its over 3 feet long then it isn't a housecat, you'll need to stop thinking black panther, that is not what the various native big cat societies in the UK are proposing, the current paradigm is a melanistic hybrid of a wild and domestic species.
 
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