Yer Polish Puma Panic

Monday 13th July 2026

As regular CFZ watchers will know, I am out of action for a lot of the time at the moment because I’m in the throes of moving house. on top of that, both my office computers are currently non-functional, and at least one of them looks like it is terminal. However, the one thing I can do is to update the news section of the website, and I found this ongoing story about an escaped puma in Poland very interesting. First of all, because there are very few, or probably comparatively few, mystery cat stories from mainland Europe, and secondly because of the way that the authorities dealt with the matter. JD

Puma chase ends in success as big cat finally captured in Polish forest – TVP World

A days-long search for a puma that wandered close to residential areas in northwestern Poland has come to the end after the large feline was .
 

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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.