First item: Yes, cats as well as other exotic animals are killed on our roads. Wallabies or boar often are a small snippet in a locals newspaper. Muntjac deer are hardly newsworthy it seems. I have had reports from very qualified people who have seen dead wolverine as well as various large cats killed on very busy roads. The roads in question are deadly to try to stop on and do not even have breakdown pull-ins.
Asking the police they would not stop at the locations given due to "high risk of causing a road traffic incident or possible fatality".
Highways England leave these animals where they are for nature to take its course as unless they are a hazard to motorists there is no call-out.
If you do see such an animal find the nearest turn off and look for the land at the back of the road in question as a carcass may be recoverable or photographed from there.
Second item: As previously discussed, there are plenty of black leopards, puma as well as lynx in wildlife parks/centres. These are not all zoo "excess" (breeding) stock. There are puma, etc, in wildlife rescue centres along with privates and canids as well as zebra. Where do these animals all come from?
Private and illegal; breeding. We know that as we were putting a stop to this in the 1990s but in the 2000s someone decided to undo all of that. Now, if you get on a Face Book exotic pet page you will find almost anything you want (often you'll be contacted privately if you show an interest in a specific animal) and all available via "secure mobile app"....well, sounds legit, right?
Therefore various cat types, marsupials, silver foxes, porcupines, primates, civets and other animals seen or reported out in the UK countryside or towns -it shows how unregulated exotic animal breeding and selling is.
