prank. People often talk of ??escaped circus animals?? forgetting that hardly any circuses keep lions these days and those few that do would certainly notice the loss of an extremely valuable animal and would make great effort to recover it. What we can say for certain is that the Phantom cat is alive and well. We read  now of the ??Gloucester Big Cat??. The pictures I have seen look about as convincing as those old grainy images of Bigfoot, which was clearly a man in a gorilla suit. The advent of Photoshop and cameraphones has done much to boost the survival prospects of the phantom cat. We laught at all those silly Victorians with their spring-heeled jack nonsense. But of course nothing has changed. It is true the Mexican Chupacabra doesn't exist, it's origin has been traced to the Island of Puerto Rico where it first descended upon earth. DNA shows the Cupacabra (Goat (Blood) Sucker) was first uncovered in the island's countryside. I'm not sure if you're arrogant or ignorant, or both, but found the blog post hilarious all the same. To compare so-called 'phantom cats' with Spring Heeled Jack or India's Monkeyman panic is ludicrous, and I'm wondering how so flippantly you can dismiss countles reports of exotic cats in the UK when there are hundreds of cases of people gathering evidence such as scat (faeces), hair samples, paw prints and also livestock kills as well as deer kills, at times found in trees, and on most occasions