Mutilated Cattle Blamed On Big Cat

A farmer in Prudhoe, Northumberland made the grisly discovery of a badly mutilated calf carcass this week, on two separate occasions.

On Saturday (16th May) farmer Stewart Pittendrigh was checking his livestock when he noticed a calf was missing.

“I thought it must have been asleep somewhere, but then I came across the carcass – all that was left of it was the head, the four legs and a piece of skin lying over it,” he told the Hexham Courant.

“I thought it was a bit strange, but I imagined it might have died during the night and that foxes or something like that had eaten it. So I kind of passed the first incident off.”

But tragedy struck again that weekend, and Mr Pittendrigh made another gruesome discovery on the following Monday morning.

“Everything had gone from the middle – there was not a picking of meat that had not been eaten away,” he said.

“That’s when I really started thinking about things; it’s not natural for something like this to happen twice in three days.

“I didn’t see anything, but I know we used to have wild boar in the woods around Prudhoe Hospital.

“The other explanation is that it could be a black cat.

“That could just be a myth, but I reported the incidents to the police and the officer I spoke to said he had seen the creature with his own eyes.”

In the past few years the Hexham Courant have reported several sightings of large black cats roaming the Northumberland countryside, the creature has been dubbed the Beast of Tynedale.

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