A man is looking for answers after he managed to get pictures of a ‘large wildcat with big claws’ at the end of his garden.

He described the cat as being the size of a fully-grown Labrador when it was seen near Coldham’s Lane, Cambridge, on Saturday morning. A local resident claimed that it wasn’t the first time the ‘large cat’ had visited the area, but they were pleased that it had finally been pictured.

He said: ‘It was around 8 or 8.30am this morning when I saw the animal from my kitchen window. I think it somehow keeps coming to this place to hunt rabbits or other small animals.’

He added that he thought it was a species of wild cat, but when he looked closer it was too big.

He said: ‘Initially I thought it was a wildcat like a Felis Silvestris, but then I went to my colleagues at the university, and they said it can’t have been as this animal was way bigger.

‘Looking at the tail it’s definitely a different species. It is a wild cat but not that species I don’t think.

‘The animal was a brown and black colour with a very long tail that had lots of black circles on it. The tail was so long, and its legs were thick as well with big claws.

‘It was about the size of a fully grown Labrador dog.’

Source:
courtesy of METRO

by Richard Hartley-Parkinson

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