Man thinks he’s noticed a panther roaming free… in Scotland

An enormous-cat fanatic is satisfied he’s noticed a ‘hybrid panther’ stalking theScottish countryside – and he even has the footage to show it.

Gordon Welsh says he was walking alongside a street close to the hamlet of Blackdog in Aberdeenshire (sure, Blackcat would have been higher) when the suspected feline made an look.

‘I was just walking at the time and I’ve simply seen it like limping – that’s what caught my eye,’ he mentioned.

‘I was like “‘the hell is that?” But then I was like “it’s nae a cat, it’s too huge”.’

Gordon, from Aberdeen, added: ‘I’ve been a ghillie [hunting expedition attendant], deerstalker, farmhand the very best of my days, so I ken the distinction between a home cat, a feral cat and that cat.’

He mentioned the animal was probably the scale of a greyhound or larger and was ‘well solid looking’.

He thinks it might be a ‘hybrid panther’.

‘From the way it was moving, the tail size and that, it was slightly like a panther, but it could be a crossbreed,’ he mentioned.

Gordon – one in every of many lovers who consider the UK has it’s personal inhabitants of huge felids- mentioned it wasn’t his first huge cat encounter.

‘I’ve seen ‘em plenty of times, I’ve seen lynx, I’ve seen panthers, I’ve seen crossbreeds – they’re everywhere in the place, belief me.

‘To be quite honest with you, most will think you mad, but these things are out there, as a certainty.’

In his footage, the creature is seen limping down a hillside, earlier than disappearing within the lengthy grass on the subject’s edge.

Gordon shared the clip on a Facebook group devoted to Scottish huge cat sightings and a number of other folks agreed it seemed like a panther.

One wrote: ‘It’s clearly a panther, take a look at the scale of it.’

While one other mentioned: ‘That’s no home cat.’

Not everybody was satisfied, nonetheless, with some claiming it was in reality a home cat, albeit a big one.

But Gordon isn’t too bothered by the nay-sayers.

‘A lot of folk are saying they’ve seen different sightings spherical about the identical space.

‘You always get the one or two who think “no, this is just total crap, it’s a cat”.

‘But you’re like “ah well, believe it if you want,” if you happen to dinnae it’s nae pores and skin off my nostril. I’m nae worrying, I ken what I’ve seen.’

Gordon believes the animal might have been interested in the world by the abundance of native wildlife to eat.

‘There’s loads of deer, and likewise down in direction of the ocean itself you’ve received different deer, rabbits, foxes, the rest like that,” he mentioned.

‘They would not bother humans, really. They’re extra skittish of us than of the rest.

‘He was only out during the day because he was hurt, or was just taking the path of least resistance across a park.’

In 2018, police issued a warning to residents of a black panther sighting in Ayshire, Scotland.

A police helicopter was even dispatched to attempt to find the creature.

However, after inspecting photos taken of the ‘panther’ it was determined the animal was in reality a home cat.

The existence of a wild huge cat inhabitants in Britain stays unproven. And although there have been remoted instances of massive cats being captured, sceptics declare they had been illegally-kept unique pets that escaped, or had been launched by their overwhelmed house owners.

Black panthers usually are not a definite species of cat however an umbrella time period for any huge cat with with a black coat, brought on by a particular gene mostly present in leopards and jaguars.

The animals are native to Asia, Africa and the Americas and are classed as endangered.

Generally nocturnal and solitary, black panthers are mentioned to be quiet and cautious however have been recognized to be aggressive.

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