Escaped “big cat” found asleep in plant pot

Sunday 19th July 2026

This has to be the cutest mystery animal story of the year JD

Escaped Savanna cat in Norfolk found in plant pot in back garden – BBC

Owners of serval cats and first generation Savannah cats require a Dangerous Wild Animals (DWA) licence to keep them. However, this cat was believed …

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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.