Cat attack!!!!!

[Snadger]

I have some of my chooks billeted in a coop within a hut on the end of my greenhouse. Last night I opened the hut, fed and watered the chooks in the greenhouse then left for the other end of the lottie to do the daily ice breaking routine.
When I returned to the hut doorway a huge black thing jumped from within the hut at my throat. It must have sneaked in while I was at top of allotment.
Bearing in mind that it was dark by then, I got the fright of my life after wrestling with a huge black cat. I don't know who got the bigger shock, me or the cat. I also can't understand why it didn't just try and dart between my legs, rather than go for the jugular.

Luckily there was no one at the allotments as from the yell I let out someone would have thouight I was wrestling with a bear!

[tlck9]

them big bears in your part of the country....likewise would have given me the shock of a lifetime

[Flummery]

An attack in the dark gives anyone permission to yell like a girlie Snadger. I'd have been looking for dry kecks too!

[TPeers]

Come, come, Flum! I'm sure it was a manly yell!

[Nicos]

"Look behind you!!!!!"

..bet you go in a bit more cautiously tonight though???

....girlie scream indeed????...nah - not our Snadge!

just a thought- you weren't wearing a new aftershave were you???

[ginger ninger]

It must have heard about your reputation for popping the rats Snadger and thought it would get in first

[MaureenHall]

oooooooooooooooo scary!!! As long as the chooks are ok though, hearing their "master" screaming like a girl would have given them something to chat about during the night

[Snadger]

I have a water butt by the door of the hut full, with a thick layer of ice on top! As I disentangled the cats talons from my chest I threw the damm thing in the water butt where it did a richochet of the ice and landed on the path nearby.

This was a BIG feral cat and could have been the thing that locals thought was a panther. (The cat gets bigger every time I tell the story!)

[Eco-Chic]

It's probably the Beast of Bodmin moving norf to escape the wintery conditions in the sarf

[Brengirl]

Have you inspected the terrain for footprints Snadger?

[Snadger]

Have you inspected the terrain for footprints Snadger?

Yep............there are footprints of a big cat!

[snakeshack]

Yep............there are footprints of a big cat!

big as dustbin lids I expect,see if you can get a video,probably need a wide angle lens .
are you sure about the colour could it be the black panther ,or just newcastle brown

[janeyo]

See if you lived by me I would have said you'd had a do with the fen tiger!

[Snadger]

When I started relaying the story I needed both hands stretched out to show its size. Now I only use one!

[Jeanied]

If it'd been more dog-like I'd have said you'd tangled with Black Shuck - but that be darn sarf too.