'It was definitely not an ordinary pussy cat'
A SHOCKED March woman has described the moment she came eyeball to eyeball with the infamous Fenland big black cat on Wednesday evening.
Sue Prothero was in the kitchen of her home on the Woodlands Estate off Creek Road at about 9pm when she heard rustling in the trees outside.
“I had the back door open and all of a sudden I could hear trees and bushes rustling and branches snapping. I wondered what on earth was going on so I looked out.
“And there it was, a huge big black cat. It didn’t really click what it was at first but then it moved off and it was enormous. It had a massive long tail, it was definitely not an ordinary pussy cat that’s for sure,” said Sue.
She said the animal moved off along the rail track.
“I was just so shocked that it was in my neighbour’s garden, you don’t expect something like that to turn up in a garden. It is a bit worrying because obviously there are children around here.
“The next morning I went round to my neighbour’s to tell them what I had seen and we had a look in the bushes, and they were all squashed down. He told me that someone else had seen the cat in the same place a little while ago.”
Earlier in the year the Citizen reported on a number of sightings of a big cat, and it was also blamed for killing a pregnant sheep at the Woodhouse Farm Park at Friday Bridge.
Milkman Peter Housden, who works for Dairy Crest, was on his way to the depot at Begdale at around 4am on Thursday February 19 when he spotted two bright eyes glowing as they were caught in the beam from his car’s headlights.
His sighting came on the same night as the sheep was killed. A vet called to examine the carcass by the park’s owners Kim and Sam Flint said the injuries suffered by the animal had not been caused by a domestic creature.
And around the same time Tim Dewdney was so taken with the footprints he spotted in the snow that he captured them on camera, they were all around his Friday Bridge home.
And a March delivery man was stunned when he spotted a large cat in a field close to Washbrook Farm at Doddington at dusk a few days later.
And various members of the Stevens family claimed to have seen a panther-like creature several times near their mobile home in Upwell in early March.
But there have been few reported sightings between then and Sue’s encounter last week.
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