A particularly egregious headline hinting at a big cat report

Monday 25th May 2026

This is a particularly annoying piece of journalism. When you read the story, it stresses that the officials who performed and commissioned the necropsy on the poor unfortunate sheep, said that there was no evidence that this particular sheep kill had anything to do with a big cat. Indeed, it pointed out the intestinal parasite which probably killed it. However, one would never have known this from the click bait headline. To Compound this very misleading article, the image is from a public domain picture library and has nothing to do with Wales. JD

Big cat attack suspected in death of Powys livestock | County Times

It has been revealed that Powys was the site of one of two suspected big cat attacks in Wales over the last five years

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Jonathan Downes
Cryptozoologist, naturalist, musician, singer, composer, poet, novelist and Director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology since 1992. Jon was born in Portsmouth in 1959 and spent his infancy in Nigeria and his childhood in Hong Kong. His wife Corinna died of cancer in 2020, leaving him with two stepdaughters and an eleven year old granddaughter called Evelyn.