big cats

https://www.tampabay.com/news/nation-world/2020/12/04/big-cat-public-safety-act-passes-house-a-step-to-end-cub-petting/ Moose is ecstatic that this bill passed the House and hopes it will get a vote in the Senate. This law will end private ownership of big cats and cub petting zoos in the US...

A man described as a conservationist in South Africa, who regularly mingled unprotected with his white lions - presumably under the impression that he'd "tamed" the lions so much that they liked him and would never hurt him.... ..... has been mauled to death by those white lions...

Big cat caught on film in Otways, fueling belief that panthers roam our wild places tl;dr It's a cat. At best, it's an unusually large black feral cat. But people will still claim that it's a panther. Something about hoofbeats and zebras comes to mind.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/13/africa/kenya-rare-black-leopard-black-panther/index.html This is pretty terrific stuff. My son's a cat-nut and will go crazy when he sees this later. Anyone got any better pictures? Or is this a single still from the gamecam. ETA: Note to...

Not the usual way this time. Apparently, a large black panther has been confirmed in southern Ohio (no links--got this from residents). They have footprints, scat, and photographs, confirmed by local zoologists. The current assumption is that someone had it as a pet, and when they realized they...

This is in spite of a subculture of cryptozoologists and woos who argue that the Eastern Cougar still exists. As with Bigfoot, there are thousands of unsubstanciated sightings and non-confirmatory evidence... sometimes hoaxed. U.S. officials declare eastern cougar extinct

A big cat has been photgraphed in Scotland. The railway line is about 4 and a half feet wide which by my rekoning makes the cat about 3 foot not including tail. That's a fairly hefty moggie for sure but I'd have thought it was still within the range of domestic cat...

Just been watching UK TV chef Gordon Ramsay's "F Word" show, part of which features his own mini-farm he's setting up to provide ingredients. One of his lambs was recently found stripped of flesh but for the head, neck broken, but not disarticulated at all. The vet and veterinary pathologists...