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
This came up on an email list I am on.
http://bit.ly/FVD1Z4
To be serious now, that reference to the "Padiham Panther"; that area is about the least likely spot for a big cat I can think of anywhere in the Padiham area. It isn't a moor, but rough grassland mostly used for horse grazing. The lady who reported lives overlooking the Leeds
Liverpool canal, the towing path of which is a popular dog-walking and cycling route.
The area she was looking at has several farms in it, and is crossed by a number of foot paths. There's a bit of woodland there, but not much, and no deer that I have ever heard of (though the area is heaving with rats).
Anyway, I'll have a shufti around there for a while; odds are she's just seen some farm moggie and mis-identified it.
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