The mystery of big cats on the Mendips deepens as photographs have
come to light which show an enormous cat taken at the time of a series
of mysterious livestock killings last year. Andrew Highfield, of West Pennard, photographed this big
cat last year, but after failing to identify it thought no more of the
matter.
However, after seeing reports in the local paper of sightings of a "wild cat", Mr. Highfield decided to share his picture. Andrew said: "I showed the picture to a vet and he said it
might be a Russian Blue or a Maine Coon. If you look at the picture, you
can compare the cat to my cat – it's much bigger. And this picture was
taken from 35 metres away or so!" Mr Highfield had seen the cat a number
of times before and after the photograph was taken, often darting
between houses at night or wondering into gardens during the day. This
wild behaviour led him to believe it was not domesticated.
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 by us in some way, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. Curated by Carl Marshall and Olivia McCarthy
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