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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 13:47:35 +0100
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Subject: [zzzzteana] Big cats 'on the increase'
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2220922.stm
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Big cats are on the loose in Britain and breeding their way towards record
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numbers, a monitoring group has claimed.
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The British Big Cats Society said it has received more than 800 reports of
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animals including pumas, black panthers, leopards and so-called Fen tigers
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over the past 12 months.
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And while it admits that many sightings are of nothing more exotic than the
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average moggy, it claims to have "firm evidence" that the majority are real.
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Society founder Daniel Bamping told BBC News Online he could cope with the
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critics and doubters, adding: "I was a sceptic, I thought it was in the same
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realm as the Loch Ness monster.
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"But it's not, they are really out there."
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'Cats with cubs'
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Mr Bamping said there have been reports of big cats from every corner of the
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country.
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Big cat reports
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Hotspots include Scotland and Gloucestershire
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January 2002 - Kent man clawed by suspected Lynx
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November 2001 - farmer reports animals mauled by big cat
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April 2001 - Lynx captured in north London
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1999 - Puma-like cat attacks horse in Wales
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"This weekend alone I have had sightings from Wales, the Scottish borders,
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Kent, the West Midlands, Devon, Somerset and Wiltshire," he said.
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The society claims some of the big cats are breeding with domestic animals.
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But Mr Bamping said others, particularly lynx and puma, probably exist in
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sufficient numbers to breed among themselves.
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"We have had sightings of cats with cubs," he added.
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'Trigger camera'
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The society claims to have evidence proving the cats' existence, including
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photographs, paw prints, sheep kills and hair samples.
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But it knows it will have to do even more to convince a sceptical public
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that it is not spinning them a shaggy cat story.
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A national "trigger camera" project is planned which, the society hopes,
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will provide footage to prove the existence of the big cats.
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Mr Bamping said: "The idea is that the cat will walk past the camera and
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take a picture of itself."
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'Like dogs'
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The society believes many of the sighting are of pets released into the
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wild, or their descendants.
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Its spokesman Danny Nineham said: "In the 1960s and 1970s, people had big
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cats like leopards as pets and they used to walk them like dogs.
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"But in 1976 when the Dangerous Wild Animals Act came into force, people
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released their cats because they did not want to pay for a licence, put them
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down, or take them to a zoo."
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