A TEENAGER has provided further evidence that a large, non-native, black cat is at large in South Lakeland when she spotted the animal while riding.
Seventeen-year-old Rosemary Wilson, a sixth form pupil at Dallam School, Milnthorpe, says she saw the cat, which she described as being three feet long, on a piece of rough ground bordered by woodland between Fell End and Beetham caravan parks.
Miss Wilson said she watched the animal walking in her direction for about ten seconds before it disappeared in the hedge. "You read about things like that but you don't expect to see them," said Miss Wilson.
Last week the sighting of a puma-like' animal in Wales created national newspaper headlines when it was seen to savage a dog on a farm near the village of Llangadog in the Brecon Beacons.
January 14, 2003 08:30
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