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In British folklore and urban legend, British big cats refers to the subject of reported sightings of non-native, wild big cats in the United Kingdom. Many of these creatures have been described as "panthers", "pumas" or "black cats".
A police helicopter carried out a search, but Scottish SPCA said pictures taken by the public showed a large domestic cat. August 2010 - Police warn of reports of big cats in Easter Ross and ...
In Scottish folklore, the Galloway Puma is a "phantom cat" said to dwell in Dumfries and Galloway, in south-west Scotland.. The rumours of a big cat in Galloway began in the late 1990s, when Canadian tourists claimed to have seen an animal which resembled a cougar near Kirroughtree, south-east of Newton Stewart.
Sightings of the British big cats, theorised to potentially be a puma or panther-like non-native feline, have been reported in the AONB and across North Wales, since the 1970s (likely in response to the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976, which banned big cats as pets, leading to their subsequent release into the wild).
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Cannot breed big cats; Cannot allow direct contact between big cats and the public at their facilities; Must keep records of transactions involving covered cats; Must allow the service to inspect their facilities, records, and animals at reasonable hours; Internationally, a variety of regulations are placed on big cat possession. [26]
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Bird flu has been on the rise in Washington state and one sanctuary was hit hard: 20 big cats – more than half of the facility’s population – died over the course of weeks.