SIGHTING? UK: Ex-detective left baffled by sighting of mystery wildcat in Hawick

A former detective believes there is a wildcat on the loose in Hawick after coming face to face with a creature he reckons might have been a lynx in his back garden. Andy Suddon, of Longhope Drive, Hawick, spotted the mystery animal through his kitchen window on Monday night. Andy Suddon. 

“I was in the kitchen with the light off, and I saw a dark animal in an open bit between trees,” he said. “I saw this movement and at first I thought it might be a young badger, but then I saw it didn’t have any white on it. “I thought it could be a cat, but it was too big for a domestic cat. It just stood there looking at me.”

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