Welcome to

Rutland & Leicestershire

Panther Watch

updated 08th Jan 2012

Rutland and Leicestershire Panther watch aims are:

Devoted to researching and gathering the evidence to prove the existence of these magnificent predators thriving in the British countryside We have never sought to harm these creatures, Any attempt at capturing a Cat etc is a job for the authorities and NOT individuals

Photo of one of a pair of very well fed Panthers

at DRAYTON MANOR ZOO, and theme park, Tamworth, Warwickshire

Note that wild panthers in the UK will not look as well fed!!!

Contents of this site

Click here for introduction page

Click here for deer kill pics

Click here to find our location

Archive reports

Click here for the early years sightings

Click here for the 2001 sightings page

Click here for the 2002 sightings page

Click here for the 2003 sightings page

You may like to visit the excellent website of the Bigcats in Britain group who we are members of

If you are interested in the research, why not join the national group

Click the logos or links

www.bigcatsinbritain.org

http://britishbigcats.blogspot.com

http://bigcatsinbritaintriggercamerablog.blogspot.com

Latest local panther reports for mid Jan 2012 are:

Black Jaguar or leopard size cat seen on New Years day morning from bedroom window of a house Near Foxton Locks by the canal

Then on the early hours of Friday morning 06^th Jan 2012. Large 2 1/2 foot tall black cat ran across the road in front of a car by Kilby Bridge, Wigston. Shocked the driver turned around and, stood at the spot was a small fox trembling with fear. He said it made no attempt to run off and stood routed to the spot visibly shaking, totally different to the cat he saw in size shape and of course colour

It is more than likely that the animal he saw had pursued the fox and been disturbed by hi car leaving the fox to emerge from the ditch, probably now under fear and relief!! Certainly not unusual for fox or badger to be on the menu with plenty of sightings involving big cats chasing or consuming foxes and roadkill badgers

. One incident some years ago in Dumfries when a whole shooting party out lamping foxes witnessed a fox killed in front of them by a very large panther like cat that emerged into the lamps beam following a fox that was attracted by the rabbit distress lure and killing it by a single bite to the neck before darting off leaving the dead fox in front of the stunned party. The gamekeeper I interviewed like many, was a total sceptic until that point

You can also contact or report local Leics and Rutland sightings direct to

Panther Watch which also go on the national data base

(All reports are recorded nationally although not published on here now)

New for 2011/2012

Probably the definitive book on the whole subject which answers all the critics, superb read whatever your beliefs on the subject with plenty of detailed colour pictures of evidence big cats in the UK and native lands

http://www.amazon.co.uk/

Also published in 2011

The Path of the Panther

by Ian Bond.
AUTHOR: Ian Bond

PUBLISHER: Big Cats In Britain
PAGES: 86
January 2011
ISBN: 978-0-9562016-3-8
PRICE: £6.50 + 50p postage

To order make cheques payable to Mark Fraser and post to:
4 Mill Avenue
Kilmaurs
KA3 2NL
Ayrshire
Scotland.

Big Cats in Britain are proud to announce the publication of Ian Bond's The Path of the Panther (BCIB Publishing January 2011), which is now available.

Want to see hard evidence

Click on the paw to view the Ketton paw print cast.

If you want to see some evidence of sheep kills, click on the field

You might also be interested in these graphic pictures of a suspected big cat attack on a deer in Rutland during October 2000

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