Wee Black Beastie. What was it?
Driving home last night at dusk, about10,00pm, I saw an animal loping along the edge of the road, at the bottom of a bank.
In shape, size and movement it could have been a stoat or weasel but it was jet black. Do either of these animals have such definite colour breaks? I have seen jet black rabbits in the wild, presumably from domestic pets abandoned or escaped. It has just occurred to me that a ferret might be another possibility. I know we have a "black panther" roaming the countryside down here in darkest Cornwall, seen again quite recently but this one is definitely a very, very small panther!
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Speaking of 'black panthers' ... I have seen one ... very early one morning while travelling near Grantham Lincs ... it was black, large with a long low-swung tail ... it was moving through a field of straw bales (the old fashioned size not the huge ones) and was definitely bigger than a bale ... it was only about 25 -30 yards from the car I was in and it was definitely leopard in shape/build/outline. I was totally gobsmacked.
I've been told it was a large domestic cat ... never in a million years ... it walked in front of a straw bale and was taller and longer ... I'm an artist and I understand perspective so I know what I saw.
I've also been told it was a black labrador ... never in a million years ... I used to show keep and show black labs ... I know what I saw ...
Those morons who broke into a mink farm and released the animals have done untold damage to native wildlife.
Mink farms are wrong, releasing minks into the wild is b##### stupid.
Thank you everyone, I think it was very probably a mink, looking at the pic. Didn't think of mink.
No one down here has been able to take a convincing pic. of the black panther, the last one was seen by someone who seemed reliable and understood what she saw. I guess one day someone will come face to face with one, cats are born survivor , unless it just dies out from lack of a partner. I have looked at pics of wild cats and have been struck how similar in markings my own moggy is so I assume our pets are not many steps away from wild cats. It doesn't take cats long to revert back to ferule behaviour if left to their own devices.
A new neighbour reported it to the local police station as a panther sighting. The desk sergeant said 'Dinnae fash yerself, that's your neighbour's tom!'
They'd had a few reports over the years......
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