Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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Did any of you see this article in the D.M?
I rang Mr Arnold this morning ( the man who researches sightings ) and told him of my sighting some 4 weeks ago up at Swingate farm.
Late evening and a jet black animal a bit larger than a Labrador running across a field. Two of stood there gobsmacked at what we had just seen.
Apparently the surrounding areas of Dover are a bit of a hot spot at the moment and a sighting of a cub crossing a road.
Any of the forumites seen anything like this?
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Ian
Any of the forumites seen anything like this?
Only after a night on the hit and miss. You'll be telling me next that you've seen Nessie swimming in the harbour and a Yeti prowling the streets of downtown River.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Ooooh I'd have loved to have seen that
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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they reckon that leopards are no danger to humans unless we corner them.
i can say categorically that i have no intention of cornering one.
Guest 699- Registered: 3 Jun 2010
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he went for the western heights open weekend
this week will be at margate for the airshow
and wiating for the annual council kearsney abbey garden champagne party !!!!!!
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Never seen anything like that but now worried when i go for a twilight walk round there this eveninig
Been nice knowing you :)
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Paul
Keep your eyes peeled for a large cat but closed when confronted by a dogging
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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spotted this chap in pencester gardens this morning, not many people around for a friday.
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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WHY is it that one can make a decent post on an interesting subject and it gets ripped to pieces.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
Our flower pots were overturned the other night - I was told there are foxes around but as the back end of the Western Heights is not far away am now wondering.... Shall ask He-who-thinks-he-is-real to keep a binoculared eye on the hills when taking the air.
Jan Higgins
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Ian, possibly because nobody really believes there is a large cat on the prowl out there.
Sorry, I know you are well informed about wildlife but I think it must have been a large unusual breed of dog that you saw.
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Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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We've got the railway at the bottom of our garden then the Lydden and Temple Ewell nature reserve. A coupler of years ago we lost some chickens and assumed at first it was foxes but they were eaten completely apart from one or two remains in different parts of the garden, seemed like a very big or very hungry fox, or . . .
Now when the bin gets demolished overnight we just say the beast has been back again.
Now where did I leave that DVD of Dog Soldiers?
How thrilling to think there may be Big Cats out there! I believe!
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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Sorry Jan not a dog, If you had seen the same as me it would have left you baffled. it was the only night I had no camera with me.
I'm told that a pair of these things would have a territory of 85 square miles.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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there is clear evidence that big cats have been in east kent for years.
faeces that have been analysed by experts and carcasses of dead sheep and calves found halfway up trees.
not really a big deal, people used to collect exotic animals at one time when it was legal and we have many wildlife parks that must have escapees.
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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Never mind Ian, I did see what looked like a black leopard in Lydden some 14 years ago. The next day I saw somebody walking two German Shepherds along almost the same route and what I had seen had been larger and definitely feline.
http://kentbigcats.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-01-04T17%3A55%3A00Z&max-results=7&reverse-paginate=truePolitics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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I wonder if it is related to this beastie?
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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Howard a very good likeness of the Dixon type looks like he has just had some Belgium beer. opps there i go being frivolous.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i disagree alan, nothing is as frightening as the brianus dixongus specie when photographed.
jan has still not got his waist measurement even though she has circumnavigated him three times.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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I wondered what the screams were all about.....
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
