Out with the dogs.

[Ian G]

Originally Posted by trikey

Out with the dogs tonight, what the heck made these footprints! my work boots are a size 9 for comparison.

Take or send the photo to Banham zoo Andy.
https://www.banhamzoo.co.uk/
They will do an ID for you.

[trikey]

Originally Posted by RPWC

Having done some searching, that appears to be a lion print.

Oh FFS don't say that, I quite like walking down there I know there are big cats loose in the UK just didn't want one on my doorstep!

[trikey]

Originally Posted by Ian G

Take or send the photo to Banham zoo Andy.
https://www.banhamzoo.co.uk/
They will do an ID for you.

Thanks Ian, I have sent the picture over.

[HarryM1BYT]

Originally Posted by trikey

Out with the dogs tonight, what the heck made these footprints! my work boots are a size 9 for comparison.

Should be easy to spot, it has odd sized feet

According to folklore, the 'Bungay Black Dog' prowls along dark lanes and lonesome field footpaths of The Suffolk Coast, where, although his howling makes the hearer's blood run cold, his footfalls make no sound. If you are unfortunate enough to encounter him it is said that you will soon be extremely ill-fated!

[trikey]

Originally Posted by HarryM1BYT

Should be easy to spot, it has odd sized feet

According to folklore, the 'Bungay Black Dog' prowls along dark lanes and lonesome field footpaths

Is this one lonesome enough! The footprints were leading out of a field at the bottom end of the lane.

NB Meg is not black shuck!

[wraymond]

Definitely drag Baskerville.

[Fusilier]

Originally Posted by trikey

Out with the dogs tonight, what the heck made these footprints! my work boots are a size 9 for comparison.

Andy

That is one of them Hippa croca dog afrog apig's, found in only East Anglia area

Stu

[trikey]

I have received a reply from Banham zoo, they are saying the print was made by a very large dog.

I shall be keeping eyes open for him or her!!!

[RPWC]

Originally Posted by trikey

Oh FFS don't say that, I quite like walking down there I know there are big cats loose in the UK just didn't want one on my doorstep!

We have one round the north east/Tynedale area, although it hasn’t been spotted for quite some time now. There was a time when it was spotted fairly frequently, it was rumoured to be a black panther like creature, the size of a large dog, but longer with a long tail that curled up slightly at the tip.
I have never seen it myself, but a friend saw it a couple of years back around 7am in daylight, on his way to work, just glimpsed it disappearing through a gap in the hedge.. About 20 odd years ago, I went out one winter with another mate, to take some photos, out in the sticks, and we came across some large prints in the deep snow out on the moors. John stopped to have a chat with another bloke who was out shooting, and he had seen the prints too, but not what had made them. A short while later John spotted the animal bounding along a hedgerow about 1 field distance away,.
I missed it, as by the time I turned round to look, it had gone behind the hedge. It turned out to be a cougar or mountain lion.

[Astraeus]

Originally Posted by trikey

I have received a reply from Banham zoo, they are saying the print was made by a very large dog.

I shall be keeping eyes open for him or her!!!

Ah well you should have sent the photo to Edinburgh Zoo. It is obviously the footprints of the Machillier Haggis. You see the right legs are smaller than the left to aid walking round the steep hills and mountains of its natural habitat.