'The Strange Beast Darted Out to Attack the Dog..'
Hemelhempstead Today
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Aldbury, Tring (UK):
A horrified horse rider has told how she saw a little terrier being ripped to bits by a big cat in Ashridge Woods. Nurse Chris Garvey, of Beaconsfield Road, Tring, said she was out on her horse, Burr, earlier this monthand was just 30 feet away when she saw a strange puma-like beast darting out of the undergrowth and attacking the small dog.
Chris said: "I heard a dog barking and there was a blood-curdling roar before the attack. There wasn't any sign of the dog's owner. "The cat was like a panther or puma and twice the size of a Labrador. It had short, black hair." Chris said she had witnessed several other strange incidents nearby recently. She said: "I've seen a dead sheep.
The carcass was left there. Then within two days, completely stripped." Graham Canon, estate manager at the National Trust Ashridge Woods, near Berkhamsted, believes foxes are the culprit for the dead sheep.
Graham said he has received around five reports of seeing this animal but Chris' encounter was the most serious one. He said everyone who reported sightings was adamant they'd seen something, but whether it was a muntjac deer, a dog or a panther, he doesn't know.
Nov 27, 2005
Hemelhempstead Today
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Aldbury, Tring (UK):
A horrified horse rider has told how she saw a little terrier being ripped to bits by a big cat in Ashridge Woods. Nurse Chris Garvey, of Beaconsfield Road, Tring, said she was out on her horse, Burr, earlier this monthand was just 30 feet away when she saw a strange puma-like beast darting out of the undergrowth and attacking the small dog.
Chris said: "I heard a dog barking and there was a blood-curdling roar before the attack. There wasn't any sign of the dog's owner. "The cat was like a panther or puma and twice the size of a Labrador. It had short, black hair." Chris said she had witnessed several other strange incidents nearby recently. She said: "I've seen a dead sheep.
The carcass was left there. Then within two days, completely stripped." Graham Canon, estate manager at the National Trust Ashridge Woods, near Berkhamsted, believes foxes are the culprit for the dead sheep.
Graham said he has received around five reports of seeing this animal but Chris' encounter was the most serious one. He said everyone who reported sightings was adamant they'd seen something, but whether it was a muntjac deer, a dog or a panther, he doesn't know.
Nov 27, 2005
