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Man reports seeing puma in Midgham




[caption id="attachment_109185" align="alignright" width="345"] Could this be the animal that was spotted in Midgham?[/caption]


The creature, which is described as being around five times the size of an average household cat, was seen walking along School Hill in Midgham on Sunday evening.
Midgham resident Derek Collier, who saw the animal, believes it may have been a puma going by its size and colouring.
Speaking to the Newbury Weekly News on Monday, the 64-year-old said: “I cannot understand what it was. I have lived in West Berkshire all my life but it was not like any animal I have ever seen.
“I would say it was four to five times bigger than the average cat. It was the thickness of the tail which made me think that is not a normal animal. It was huge.
“It was stood about 20 yards in front of me and right in my headlights and took up about two thirds of the road. It was there for about ten seconds then it disappeared up the bank and into the bushes.
“It was a bit of a shock to say the least. It must have been five feet long from head to tail.
“At first I thought it might have been a muntjac deer, but it had this huge tail, probably two or three inches thick, so it can’t have been that.
“Because of the tail I thought for a second it could have been a fox instead but the tail was just too big and it didn’t have a pointed nose.
“The only thing I could put it down to was a puma, but you certainly don’t expect to see something like that round here. I emailed a couple of people to see if they had seen anything similar but it doesn’t seem that they have. It’s very bizarre.”
With his tongue firmly in his cheek, Mr Collier added: “Before anyone says it, no, I was not drinking that night. The Coach and Horses was shut.”
It is not the first time that residents have claimed to have seen a strange animal in the district.
On October 3 2012, a bushy-tailed, long necked creature, dubbed the ‘Creature of Curridge’ was spotted by West Berkshire businessman Don Prater.
Have you spotted the beast of West Berkshire? Email dan.cooper@newburynews.co.uk



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