Report from Brian Godwin
Five geese killed by puma-like animal?
From 'Eyewitness Accounts' in Cat Country, The Quest for the British Big Catby Di Francis, David and Charles, 1983
August 1976, Ballgeich Hill, Eastwood.
By August 1975 the sightings in the Glasgow area numbered over ahundred, including about twenty from policemen. John Stewart, a farmer at Ballgeich Hill 8 miles south of the city, found five dead geese on his land. Each had 1 1/2 deep puncture marks on the body about 4 - 5 in apart. The 6 ft wire fence of the enclosure had been ripped apart and an Alsation was covering nearby. Richard O'Grady, a director of Calderpark Zoo, identified large tracks found nearby as cat-like; he also felt that the puncture marks on the geese were consistent with an attack by a large puma-like predator.
August 1976
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