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Thursday, 1 November 2018

SIGHTING? UK: ‘large black cat’ is no panther

Police who spent yesterday scouring fields near the B730 in Ayrshire for a mystery “large black cat” have ruled out an earlier theory that the beast is a black panther.


The original alert made newspaper headlines across Britain, and the subsequent downgrading of the animal from big cat predator to (possibly) domestic cat has been vigorously lampooned in press and social media.

Police consulted an expert on big cats, who after studying pictures of the animal reckoned it was unlikely to be a panther - black or otherwise.

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