BIG CAT NEWS: Gloucestershire, Ripon and more...

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's howl heard
This is Gloucestershire
BIG cat believers and deniers have been out in force after an alleged sighting in the Forest. John Powell and his Labrador cross TJ heard a howl and saw green eyes, apparently a cat stalking them in woodland near Ellwood. Big cat tracker Frank...

Big cat DNA tests reveal it's a domestic moggie
This is Gloucestershire
DNA analysis of suspected big cat fur in the county reveals it's from a domestic moggie. University of Warwick,conducted a further test on hair taken from an empty building where a suspected big cat was sighted near Dursley. This is after its experts ...This is Gloucestershire

And once again it all happens in Gloucestershire. A new story for Frank Tunbridge (I really like the cut of this man's jib, and would like to meet him some day) and a disappointing result from some hair analysis. But now over to Yorkshire where, ignoring the fact that someone involved in all this doesn't know the difference between a panther and a puma, there is a very interesting sighting...

In the News tomorrow - Shipley Country Park's possible panther
Ripley Today
A distressed woman phoned officers just after 2pm on Thursday, when she and two friends saw what they thought was a big cat prowling the grounds of the popular nature spot. The friends said they saw the creature, generally indigenous to South America, ...

It was big, it was black, it had a long tail. WEe've heard that all before, but here another local official admits that these reports are a regular occurrence. And our very own Lindsay Selby comments on the recent Corpach footprints:

cryptozoo-oscity: Monster and big cat news from the Scottish highlands

"I suppose a big dog could have been responsible but they look more like a very big cat's prints to me."I found the prints just below my living room window, ...