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Thursday, April 19, 2012

BIG CAT NEWS: Again mostly Gloucestershire and Scotland

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 shocker on Berrow beach for Sheri
This is The West Country
“They must have picked up the scent because about 30ft away stood a big cat. It was jet black and it looked like a leopard in shape and size and stood out from the sand. It froze and stared at us. “We waited for our eyes to adjust at first to make sure ...

A Somerset sighting - the first for a while - by a girl named after a Spanish fortified wine. And now more from Gloucestershire:

Fur left behind by 'panther-like animal' to be analysed
This is Gloucestershire

Mount View Drive resident Keith Baker has collected a sample of hair left by a large panther-like animal he thinks may be an elusive big cat. He has passed the fur, collected from barbed wire in the field, to big cat tracker Frank Tunbridge in a bid to ...

And another outing for the story about Scottish police reports:

Police receive 140 big-cat sightings - Environment - Scotsman.com

ALMOST 140 sightings of big cats have been reported to police forces in Scotland over the past five years, the latest figures have revealed.

And back to Gloucestershire.

This is Gloucestershire

FOOTAGE of a beast seen roaming the fields of Winchcombe could be a hybrid species of giant cat. Big cat tracker Frank Tunbridge went to see for himself what was prowling through land around Mount View Drive in Winchcombe. And residents Keith Baker and ...

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