BEASTWATCH

Well although I found our British big cats a fascinating subject to study, I still felt there was something else missing, then one day David gave me a newsletter from the EAR (Exotic Animals Register) they'd collected reports of all types of exotic animals that had been reported here in the UK, this was it, it was what I needed to climb my ladder to fulfilment, I joined the EAR but they very soon closed down shortly after me joining, so feeling bewildered but wanting to know more, in 2001 I decided to form my own organisation, BeastWatch UK here I'd collated quite a lot of unusual reports from a chinchilla found in a post-box, to piranha in the Thames, but that's not the end of it, because in 2016 I received a report of a gentleman in Barrow-Upon -Soar that had lost his pet skunk, so I went to visit him, and seeing just how upset he was I'd decided from then on, to stop just collating reports and focus on becoming more involved as a Search & Rescue for these exotic animals, this went..

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