Big cat sightings

[Fungus]

How about an adder, or a politician?

An Adder won't kill you though it could be painful. We used to have wolves and bears until not that long ago but they were hunted to extinction.

We do have numerous toxic mushrooms. A forkful of a Death Cap or a Destoying Angel could kill you, and a whole cap almost certainly would. Death would take about a week, commencing with vomiting and nausea, followed by an apparent recovery, followed by liver and kidney failure and death. The False Morel contains rocket fuel - hydrazine - and will kill you.

But we'll soon have no more mushrooms once all the Poles have picked them.

[darmstadt]

what kind of dreary country has no animals that could kill you?"

How about an adder, or a politician?

[Mordac]

I seem to remember reading (some time ago) a group seriously pushing for the reintroduction of timber wolves and bears into the forrests of Grizedale and Kielder. That would have livened up a Sunday afternoon ramble.

An interesting method of dealing with those beardy types who insist on the right to trapse through the countryside wearing sandals and a cagoul. I like the sound of that. It would certainly make those Bill Oddie countryside-watch programmes a bit more watchable

[Fungus]

We have Wild Boar, which are dangerous, and Wallabies. Oh and Eagle Owls which feed off rabbits. One could easily take a pet dog. I think the wing span is a few metres.

And I suppose any bird is now a killer.

[Mailman]

I seem to remember reading (some time ago) a group seriously pushing for the reintroduction of timber wolves and bears into the forrests of Grizedale and Kielder. That would have livened up a Sunday afternoon ramble.

Drove past a Timberwolf in Minnesota a few years ago...god damn thing was nearly as big as our car!

Mailman

[janey]

I seem to remember reading (some time ago) a group seriously pushing for the reintroduction of timber wolves and bears into the forrests of Grizedale and Kielder. That would have livened up a Sunday afternoon ramble.

absolutely agree, much more exciting. who needs extreme sports when you can just take a walk around your own back yard!

[janey]

my Janey, what a large pussy you have.....

PMSL... so many things I could say to that but I'm determined to be a good girl and not have every thread I contribute to sent to light relief!

[The Lone Gunman]

I'm loving this person's comment:

"I don't think this is a problem: it's great. British wildlife is so boring, we have no exciting or dangerous animals, I'm all for releasing crocodiles in the Thames or herds of rhino in the Peak District; what kind of dreary country has no animals that could kill you?"

I seem to remember reading (some time ago) a group seriously pushing for the reintroduction of timber wolves and bears into the forrests of Grizedale and Kielder. That would have livened up a Sunday afternoon ramble.

[Sputnik]

http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thre...20060316120749

I saw this last night:

my Janey, what a large pussy you have.....

[janey]

http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thre...20060316120749

I saw this last night:

I'm loving this person's comment:

"I don't think this is a problem: it's great. British wildlife is so boring, we have no exciting or dangerous animals, I'm all for releasing crocodiles in the Thames or herds of rhino in the Peak District; what kind of dreary country has no animals that could kill you?"

[G8_Summit]

http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thre...20060316120749

I saw this last night: