The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper column inches than any other cryptozoological subject.There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived in some way by us, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in.
It takes a long time to do, and is a fairly tedious task, so I am not promising that they will be done each day, but I will do them as regularly as I can. JD
'Big cat' mystery of huge paw prints in the snow at Marston Green
Birmingham Mail
By Mike Lockley
A BIG CAT mystery sparked by giant prints on a snow-covered car park has been solved by the Birmingham Mail. And our investigation proved there's nothing quite as bunny as nature. For the 'paw marks', spotted by Kieron McArdle...
This is probably the stupidest non-story in Big cat News this week. "The cleaning company director believed the marks – as big as a human footprint – may have been left by a big cat". This is just another sign of how our increasingly urbanised and sedentry society is becoming increasingly (yes, I know I have now used the word 'increasingly' three times in the same paragraph, which is probably not the best grammar) divorced from any interaction with the natural world. Its a rabbit as any fule should kno.
Its all happening in Gloucestershire, which seems to have been the veritable hub of British Big Cat news in the last few weeks. No some 'academics' have launched a study:
Academics to study big cat sightings
This is Gloucestershire
They cite Scotland's Loch Ness Monster and the Abominable Snowman as examples. Rhiannon Fisher, a lecturer at the Royal Agricultural College and a part-time PhD student in the CCRI, added, "We are not saying that there is or is not a wild cat in the ...
And yet another Gloucestershire sighting:
Another 'bit cat' spotted in Gloucestershire
This is Gloucestershire
Helen Stratford, of Teddington Gardens, Upton St Leonards, said she spotted a large cat in fields by her house on Saturday evening around 5.40pm. She said she was "shocked" by the sighting, which happened as she walked her dog.
It doesn't actually give a description so it is not really that useful. But here's another - you've guessed it - from Gloucestershire. Except that it's not. It is a round up of sightings from the last seven years, which presents a useful overview, but for a moment I was getting excited. A lion? pride comes before a fall.
Forget Gloucestershire big cats – 'lion' spotted near M5 – This is ...
Forget Gloucestershire big cats - 'lion' spotted near M5, CONCERNED callers alerted county police to more than 60 suspected big cat sightings in seven years – including a lion next to the M5 motorway. Gloucestershire Constabulary figures show they received 61 calls about what people believed were big cats in …
This is a link to a forum comment by some bloke called 'Space Marine' linking to a Daily Mail article about Rick Minter's new book. Well, I have a lot of respect for Rick and look forward to reading it. And, yes. I believe that Rick Minter does live in Gloucestershire or somewhere in that neck of the woods.
Finally for today, a radio interview about the Beast of Stroud. Now guess which country Stroud is in..
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In November Sahar Dimus, our guide on four CFZ Sumatra expeditions, died of liver failure leaving a widow Lucy and four Children. On the 2nd November, Dezyama D. Sangma, wife of our friend and colleague Dipu Marak, our collaborator on the 2010 Indian expedition died, leaving her grieving husband and two small children.
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