Sunday, April 01, 2012

BIG CAT NEWS: One from Buckinghamshire, and two from across the pond

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


Is there a big cat on the loose in Bucks?
Beaconsfield Advertiser
A DEER found mutilated in a wood could have been attacked by a big cat, according to experts. Professional photographer Simon Sarin, of Churchill Drive in Knotty Green, found the deer carcass in Sandels and Netherlands Wood in Beaconsfield last week ...

We have a picture of a bloke who looks like one of Oasis but no picture of the carcass of the deer. There is not much that one can say to that. That's all for the UK but there are a couple of mildly interesting stories from the other side of the Atlantic...

Sheep and cat kills blamed on cougar
McMinnville News-Register

She said a caller had reported spotting a large cat with a long tail walking alongside Riverside Drive about 2:30 in the morning. Howard has a 60-foot-long lean-to where his sheep can take refuge from the elements, but open along one entire side, ...

WILDLIFE: Finding freeways for mountain lions
Press-Enterprise

If the cat — now known as F90 — does either, it would be good news for the beleaguered population of about 30 cougars that remain in the Santa Ana Mountains. The big cats have become increasingly isolated as their historic habitat is chopped up by ...

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