The image of the feline creature was captured on film and posted on social network Twitter by user OrangeCat@Cocktimusprime4 who says: “I saw the #Cannock #Chase #Cat today walked up tree and stared at me it was the size of a average dog.”
The black and white photograph shows a cat-like creature sitting on a branch amid thick foliage with its back to the lens.
It is the latest reported sighted of a big cat in the forest in Staffordshire.
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Rumours about mysterious beasts roaming the site are as old as the hills in the area and have become legends.
In August 2009 there were reports of big cats preying on deer on the Chase.
The following year a large paw print was discovered, in Norton Canes, by plumber Kevin Goodson who was walking his two labradors. The discovery of the six-inch impression came a fortnight after a deer kill prompted fears of a big cat stalking the Chase. Retired miner Steve Allatt, of Heath Hayes, he discovered a fawn lying dead in a ditch with two puncture holes in its neck.
An expert from the Exotic Animal Registry based in Bristol said that a black panther may have been responsible for it.
Reports of wild cats in West Midland woodlands have been rife ever since the Dangerous Wild Animals Act in 1976 imposed stringent conditions on anybody keeping such animals. Reports of such animals being released into the wild by people who previously kept them as pets have led to countless legends.READ MORE
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