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[NiftyWolfie]

Back around the middle to late 90's there was reports of Big Cats just starting to surface on Cannock Chase. I know there was probable some from earlier then this but being young I wasn't really bothered about it then. Feeling brave like teenage lads do we deceided to go looking for the "Big Cat" to see if we could get a glimpse of it. Many hours of an evening and a night were spent out on Cannock Chase looking for it. We would wander the Chase by moonlight some nights hoping to catch a glimpse of something.

When I did finally see the "Big Cat" it was just off the junction of camp road and chase road, on the right and side where the fist pull in is. The location is very popular with the public as at the time alot of food was thrown on the clear bank in-front of the pulling to entice the deer to feed in full view of the public.
I believe that the deer coming to this area every-night was what drew the "Big Cat" into this area as it was rich with prey. Needless to say the experience was a shock as even though I was after seeing one I never really expected to! It was after this that I started to carry a camera around in the hopes of getting a photograph of the "Big Cat".

As the months went by there were more sightings of the "Big Cat" but most of them like my own sighting was never reported. For myself the idea of reporting a sighting made me feel slightly stupid, so I didn't report it. It did make me start looking into the subject more though. Lots more hours was then spent looking for the cat as having seen it once I was desperate to get some proof it was really there. But as these animals are adapted to living in the wild and hunting food without the prey knowing it's there, more often then not I felt the hunted not the hunter. After a few months of searching being a teenager took back over and I started spending more time doing other things!

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