Now I'm no vet or big cat expert but having hunted myself on and off for 18 yrs I have never come across big cats mouling, attacking or even killing livestock. But having said that I would never say is don't happen (not round my NECK of the wood any roads). I beat on a local shoot and a few people have said that there is a Lion, Lynx type cat in the area. I have been on the land night and day but never seen it myself. My point being is that it makes a wild animal attack even more scarey, Even though a human has not been attacked or killed not even a child and as you might know a cat of this type would take a child/toddler as aposed to an adult as a child would be easyer to kill and move to a secluded place to be consumed. I myself would go for the FOX as the predetior in this case, as its May/June fox cubs will be venturing out to kill by themselves mabe with mum and if you have 1 vixon with 2-4 cubs eating for 1-2 hours they will put quite a big hole in a lamb also fox eat from the backside in and up. The head was not touched which leads me to ruleout cats because if a cat has killed an animal by biting the neck would the neck not be the first place the cat would start eating? and if it was a cat the remains would not have been found as the cat would have moved the prey to a quieter place where the cat could have fed in peace away from other preditors, and this place would not have been 50 yards from the kill site, if it was a cat that is. I am still going to say a FOX with about 3 Cubs of 3-4 months of age and maybe a dog fox too.
This has got to be one of the most stupid issues EVER bought up on television! So the lamb was slaughtered... big deal. What ever ate it had a good feed-up by the looks of things and the beast probably went 'Num-num-num' as it bit down on the ewes quivering body and then later on, did a huge Charlotte dump, which probably had bits of wool sticking out of it for all to see. I laughed my butt off when Gordon asked for more information as to her suspicious demise. S#it happens, Mate!
surely with those teeth JS-P would have just chewed the thing to death, rather than strangling it first....? unless it lost the will to live and killed itself first, which is always a possibility i suppose
Originally posted by LondonGirl85: I missed this episode, but reading the diary page. It says the autopsy showed it was strangled??!
Can foxes/dogs/giant cats smother/strangle livestock???? (city girl here, v.confused!)
When they say `strangled' it just means the air supply is cut off. The prefered method of some predators is to clamp its jaws on to the neck/wind pipe of its pray, so killing it by suffocation. I suppose the term strangulation conjurs up the image of some furry beast wrapping its paws round poor Charl's neck. Not so. Hope that clears thing up then.
Cant understand the big HOO-HA about this....I live way out in the countryside and visit many farms....this is a daily occurance for farmers with lambs!
I live in Hertfordshire and i have seen a big cat when out riding on my horse. I was on a bridle path in Codicote, my horse was going crazy and i could not figure out why, when all of a sudden i look up and prowling on top of the steep bank above me is a HUGE cat! it was alot biger than any dog and much bigger than any cat i have seen apart from in the zoo! there has been lots of big cats let free in the 60s when the new laws came in... about 5 years ago a big cat had fallen asleep up a tree in Old Welwyn High street that was spoted by the milk man in the early hours one morning, and by 11am it was still asleep and had to be darted while some one went up to bring it down to safty!(in the papers on the TV) So to be Honest i am not one bit suprised about the lamb being killed like that, there are big cats out there... if you dont belive me go and have a close look at some trees in the woods and really have a close look at the trunk and see if you can see any claw marks where the cats have climed the tree! But if i was you i would not go to the woods at night.... cats hunt at night! Also on a frosty morning in feilds or woods you may see footprints of somthing bit like a big cat! anyway i know what i saw.. just wish i had a taken a picture! but it is very sad to here about the Lamb. x
I live in Hertfordshire and i have seen a big cat when out riding on my horse. I was on a bridle path in Codicote, my horse was going crazy and i could not figure out why, when all of a sudden i look up and prowling on top of the steep bank above me is a HUGE cat! it was alot biger than any dog and much bigger than any cat i have seen apart from in the zoo!
