Yahoo News Big cat seen next to busy sports field in middle of the day
A man was shocked to see a big cat sauntering down a Gloucestershire field next to a green bustling with a weekend lunchtime sports game. The animal was seen by others as it strolled past a fence before going into the woods and sat curiously watching everything happening on the green.
The sighting of the creature happened earlier this month near a busy weekend sports fixture. The man, who does not want to be identified, saw the animal with rolling shoulders walking in the field and he was taken aback by its size and said it was 'clearly a large cat'
He acknowledged that the video he captured of the creature is grainy, making it difficult to accurately gauge the size of the feline. However, he estimated that the animal was about the size of a Labrador.
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The man, who said he only wanted to give the location of the sighting as Gloucestershire, said: "I was at a sports game and another spectator to the right of me noticed the animal and said 'what is that'. I looked over the way and could see a big cat walking along the fence in the neighbouring field.
"That is when I got my phone out to video the animal. It is hard to say the size the animal was because of the distance and perspective however I would say it looked as if it was the size of a Labrador. .
"The size of it and the way it moved was different to a domestic cat. It was different in how it was moving down the path with speed and distance it was travelling.
"It looked out of place being there but it was clearly a large cat. I have been open minded yet sceptical about big cats living in the UK countryside and it took me days before I decided to show the video to a few people who I know.
"In the video, you can see when the cat stops, the animal looks large. It was definitely a cat from the way it moved. It could have been a big cat or a big domestic.
"I seen it walking along a fence in the field opposite and then it went off into the woods. It seemed to sit down in the woods and curiously watch the world go by.
"I’ve heard about big cats living in the UK countryside. What I had seen was a cat of some sorts.
"I am impartial in saying for sure what the creature was. However the evidence is there for people to make up their own mind.
"People who I have spoken to who have watched the video have said the animal in the video is a large cat but whether it is a big cat, I can not be sure."
