Following the recent discovery of Panthera DNA on a sheep carcass in the Lake District, a woman from Burton-in-Kendal has sent in a photo of what she believes to have been a big cat in 2008.
86-year-old writer and local historian, Kath Hayhurst, was travelling in Dalton towards Hutton Roof Crags with her husband when they spotted a dead cat at the roadside near Plain Quarry.
She says she took the photograph in the day time of August, 2008 after a spate of black cat sightings in the area.86-year-old writer and local historian, Kath Hayhurst, was travelling in Dalton towards Hutton Roof Crags with her husband when they spotted a dead cat at the roadside near Plain Quarry.
She says she took the photograph in the day time of August, 2008 after a spate of black cat sightings in the area.
.Kath said: "We were driving by when we came across the cat laying by the roadside and quickly noticed its large size.
"We picked it up and put it in the boot of the car and took it home. I measured it from its ears to the tip of its tail and it was 22 inches.
"Its features were more like a domestic cat, rather than a zoo-like cat, however it was just a lot bigger.
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It looks like she found a big cat, not a big cat. However, such large moggies are the source of most of these sightings and definitely explain the local ones at the time.