Recaptured!
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Something we are not used to in the UK hills!
I hope they get found (safely) soon. It’s a rough time of year to release animals into the wild.
I’ll not get into the argument of whether they should be re-introduced properly.
I rather expected this to be one of those; ‘Member of the public spots a, Leopard/tiger/panther/Jaguar/…’ kind of reports. Clearly not!!
I would have thought that anyone owning two of those would be well known by his/her neighbours.
What next? Wolves?
They have been captured
That has been suggested - it may even be a good idea to control the numbers of red deer!
Brian
Its a good thought, but the only place they are ever likely to be released is in some huge Scottish estate - which would need a huge amount of fencing. They’d be absolute panic if one got free.
Years ago, (1970s?) I remember a young wolf in Norway deciding to head south to the moor populated areas of the country during winter. As it did so the Norwegian ‘red tops’, were having a field day; ‘lock up yer children’, ‘stay inside’, don’t let your dogs, cats, sheep, pigs, cows out unless you guard them and other crap… There were quite a few photos in the press as it was using roads to travel south. Eventually someone managed to run it over, and the press published photographs of it with it’s jaws spread wide open so everyone could see its jaws/teeth.
It would need lots of wolves to reduce the huge number of deer (of most species) at least in Scotland where the estates seem to make a fair amount of cash from deer stalking. And that’s assuming they’d bother with deer when there’s plenty of (or were), Arctic Hares or other easier to catch game to eat.
I’ve always been of the opinion that those that want the predators back are backed by large Scottish estates that will then cry because they have to fence off large areas of land to ensure the safety of people. The fact that it will also deny access to the land by the general populace will simply be a shame.
Which would exclude a large area from public access and even might include a SOTA summit or two. Nah, it’s not going to happen. Breathe easy. 
Two more on the loose according to the Beeb website.
Have you never seen a gate or stile on a deer fence on a Scottish estate?
Oh there’s a doozy on the main trade route up Ben Challum. If your physique is not that of a racing snake then it’s a scary experience. It’s probably scary for skinny people too. Unless it’s been fixed.
Plenty of others, a few in excellent places but a lot where they’re less useful!
Been through many of them from the Eastern part of Scotland to as far west as Islay. The issue is what it the other side… deer or wolf? A herd of deer isn’t an issue, but a pack of wolves on the other hand, well…