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AS urban myths go, you can’t get much bigger than the big cat. Reports of giant jet-black beasts - some "4ft long and 5ft high" - bounding through the countryside, leaving a bloody trail of massacred sheep in their wake, are not uncommon. Annual sightings of the elusive animals rep..."
AS urban myths go, you can’t get much bigger than the big cat. Reports of giant jet-black beasts - some "4ft long and 5ft high" - bounding through the countryside, leaving a bloody trail of massacred sheep in their wake, are not uncommon. Annual sightings of the elusive animals reported to the Scottish Big Cat Society have rocketed over the past five years from dozens to hundreds. This year alone there have been numerous reports of big cats in areas across the country, including Aberdeenshire, Ayrshire and Renfrewshire. Fearsome felines have also been reported in much more populated areas, including Edinburgh, where only last month a manclaimed to have seen a large black cat in the grounds of Merchiston Castle School.
The previous month a dog-walker claimed to have seen a 3ft-long black cat "with a 3ft tail" at 5pm one afternoon just outside Haddington in East Lothian. Harder evidence in recent years includes a photograph of a big cat spotted roaming in Fife in 1997 and large paw prints which were found near East Calder in West Lothian. While some witnesses may have overactive imaginations, and a knack for blowing things out of proportion, experts say the beasts really are out there somewhere. Scotland, with its wild, rugged landscape, and plentiful supply of food, is an ideal hunting ground for such creatures. And the Scottish Big Cat Society is about to begin astudy to prove once and for all that the animals are not just a shaggy cat story. Mark Fraser, who will lead the society’s week-long study next month, says: "There are a lot of cases of mistaken identity, and there aren’t as many big cats out there as the reports suggest, or we would have more in Scotland than there are in Africa." Explaining the increase in sightings, he says: "Sightings have shot sky-high, because of publicity [about other sightings]. People are more confident in coming forward because they think they will be taken seriously. Although they genuinely believe they have seen a large cat, nine times out of ten the prints and the sheep kills we find are from dogs." But he is adamant that there are big cats inthe wild in. ...
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AS urban myths go, you can’t get much bigger than the big cat. Reports of giant jet-black beasts - some "4ft long and 5ft high" - bounding through the countryside, leaving a bloody trail of massacred sheep in their wake, are not uncommon. Annual sightings of the elusive animals reported to the Scottish Big Cat Society have rocketed over the past five years from dozens to hundreds. This year alone there have been numerous reports of big cats in areas across the country, including Aberdeenshire, Ayrshire and Renfrewshire. Fearsome felines have also been reported in much more populated areas, including Edinburgh, where only last month a manclaimed to have seen a large black cat in the grounds of Merchiston Castle School. 
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