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Sightings of a big cat in Devon include one by Cedric Munslow, former
commercial manager of Torquay United, who saw what he took to be 5ft-long and 3ft-high puma in Dunchideock, west of Exeter, last November. Last month Martin Heath, from Spreyton, between Crediton and Okehampton, saw an unidentified big cat, the size of an Alsatian dog, in his garden. Two horse riders were startled by what they believed to be a big cat in South Brent on May 15. Friends Tanya Tregaskis and Melanie Marchant were thrown out of their saddles after their horses were spooked by a wild cat about the size of a medium-sized dog. A sighting in Okehampton on May 12 left three children too scared to go out to play by themselves http://www.scottishbigcats.co.uk/engnews162.htm More sightings in that area, a tiger in Yorkshire and other pumas. One was hanging around in Norfolk for a couple of weeks before going to ground. The latest news is that a film company is going to wage an all-out video and infra-red assault on the south west to see if it can do what most have failed at - prove the existence of big cats in the UK. Have a trawl through this website - if you're not convinced they are out there, you may well change your mind. Incidentally, Jake Willers who recently presented a TV series about dangerous animals once told me that the two pumas in his zoo could effectively conceal themselves in the long grass in an enclosure that they could easily ambush him. In fact, one morning he thought one had escaped, so expertly had it hidden itself. Which suggests the film company has two chances - fat chance and no chance! |