Watch the big cat hunt

Get one of those wild life video cameras you can attach to to a tree or that bridge. It will turn on and record any movement such as a deer or big cat that walks by.

10 years ago while living near Mirfield,West Yorkshire I watched a black animal I took to be a dog leap onto the backs of my sheep as they were coming back to night housing- they lambed in October-.It had a long tail and what appeared to be a curly coat. The local farmer pointed out that dogs don't attack that way and immediately housed his entire flock. That was a cat he announced. I was dumfounded!
A single ewe was then 'taken' a grey trail of wool the only sign of its exit route. The local cops offered me a gun licence. Having a drug dealer next door I declined! On one occasion my terrier fled yelping from the nearby clough-with all the other stock-geese & horses responding in panic. All I had heard was a sort of bark.I moved the sheep to a farm near Huddersfield.
All was well until I moved further north. The farmer looking after them during my move was a well respected stockman so when he rang on two consecutive weeks to say that a half grown ewe had been completely eaten to the bones I was rather shocked. The cops came, found unexplained faeces on the farmers lawn and we were asked to keep quiet to avoid panic in Huddersfied. I moved the sheep north to join me.
I believe that I had an encounter in Wiltshire but it was restricted to a growling sound from the barn and an unexplained hideout in the straw. Maybe it was a rogue badger.
I now live near Uttoxeter-no sheep but the same dogs and horses.
The neighbouring farmer was loosing about 30 lambs a year-just vanishing. One day I noticed a particularily nice single and ewe who were alone in a riverside meadow. Next day there was a panicky ewe and a half eaten leg, Soon after this some of the horses at the livery yard yard 2 miles away crashed through the gate during the night-the others,led by my gelding were taken to the top of the farm in the morning. The cattle and sheep moved up there in the next door field. The cattle at the farm near me stampeded the same night.
A few weeks later my dogs stopped and sat down on the track where I nearly always take them. The terrier was particularly concerned refusing to move at all. I walked on calling them to no avail. Suddenly the hedge 'growled'.It was more advice than warning but I took it as the latter and cut my walk short.Cat eats dog was not a headline I wished to allow the tabloids.
Bearing in mind that the horse in question almost certainly saw the first sheep in Yorkshire killed and the terrier may well have 'met' my black visitor(now identified as a black leopard) it would seem that 'Cat' is identifiable as such to prey animals. Which sort this was I have no idea of course but I am sure it visited the area frequently as there are places on the livery yard where the horse is always in a state of acute awareness at all times- mostly near ditches and the stream. There have been no incidents for a year so I suspect he/she has met their maker.A pity I should have liked to know what sort it was!!
Lesley

I was sleeping and I remember waking up and I felt really anxious and my breathing was really weird (I've had a panic attack once before when I was little and it felt like that but I felt really anxious and kept moving around). Is it possible that it was an anxiety attack or a panic attack? (Is an anxiety attack and an anxiety attack two different things or the same?) The information you provide here is very valuable - thank you.