BIG non domestic cat maybe a Lynx in Nunhead Cemetery

[PeckhamRose]

I'm sober, and my prescription drugs do not make me hallucinate, I promise.

But just been for a long walk around the exquisitely beautiful Nunhead Cemetery and saw a big cat, looked like a lynx, silver grey with pointy ears, and about 2-3 times the size of a domestic cat.

Honestly.

Edited to add: having just searched for previous posts on this sort of subject I note that someone saw a big cat in Peckham Rye Park some time ago, and suggestions were it was an ocelot or lynx. The one I saw looked more like a lynx!

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Sounds like DulwichMum's familiar has escaped again.

[AllforNun]

That sounds like the thing that I ran across

[Brendan]

Here's the other thread. So 2 sightings both by people who claim not to have been on LSD at the time. Intriguing. *strokes beard*

http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,247969,248434#msg-248434

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

You are definitely hallucinating, Brendan. You don't have a beard.

[PeckhamRose]

Should I write to BBCs BigCatDiary programme? They're on a money saving exercise, the BBC. They can come to Nunhead instead of Africa.

But I really am sure of what I saw.

[woofmarkthedog]

PSST It's that LYNXX effect.....

However saw some lovely p**sy at the Bishop.........really !

[PeckhamRose]

But seriously though, I did I did I thaw a puddyLYNX. Where's that pesky journo?

[AllforNun]

I think we should leave them alone, they are definately living there. If the Liberals find out they will have them removed and coralled on Goose Green, they get very jealous about Nunheads wonders !

[Jeremy]

Big enough to attack a human?

[????]

It's been ages since we've had such a rallying cry for communty action

*lights torch wanders out to shed to get pitchfork*

Right, 12.30 at the Clockhouse for 'stirrups'

[PeckhamRose]

Big enough to attack a threatening human, but he saw me and walked off.

I am wondering if I should really have posted this, in case journos are interested and threaten him. He was so beautiful. (Lynx not journo.)

[SimonM]

Must take me camera to the Nunhead open day on the 16th!!

[PeckhamRose]

I hope to attend that day, and will ask other FONC people (Friends of Nunhead Cemetery) if they are aware of it. I keep wondering if I really did see it. I mean, what a crazy thing. But I did. I know I did.

[Zaardvark]

I told my wife about this and she said "Really! And what about the fairies?". My 3 yr old then said "Don't talk to the wolves. There are wolves in the woods, aren't there?"

Anyway, given there is quite a history of this (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4370893.stm) and (this guy used unattributed excerpts from the forum in his report) http://londonist.com/2009/04/the_saturday_strangeness_41.php - I don't think you are (too) mad.

Best

Z

[PeckhamRose]

I'm not mad at all, and I have been given a certificate release form to prove it.

But I now worry about people hunting the poor lynx-or-whatever-it-was down!