Report from Mike Inglis and George Markie
Two sightings of large cats and near Dingwall
Oct 2000 and December 2000
Date Oct 2000
Time 8.am
Location: Dingwall. Farmland, and pinewood, scrub and gorse.
Weather: damp, not raining.
Description: Puma like, dark mousey brown. Bigger than a fox/size of my Springer Spaniel.
Round head, pointed ears.
Body 3 ft with 18" tail curved with a ball tuft.
Distance 40 yards.
Animal seen "walking up a grass verge as if on outlook for rabbit or food of some sort."
Length of sighting: half a minute
Second Sighting
Dec 2000
Same location.
Mid Morning, snow on ground "Observed it among scrubs and bushes and came into house to get camera and binoculars. Followed tracks in snow but lost sight of it in derelict farm building
There were further sightings in December 2001 and January 2002.
October and December 2000
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