The mention of the earlier black dog blamed for kills is a useful local memory, since the cat reports of the 1990s sit alongside older stories of surplus-killing animals of unknown kind. The dead sheep is the sort of evidence that is often ambiguous, and the source did not say who examined it. The pin is approximate.
Beasts & cryptids
The Black Cats and the Sheep near Netherburn, November 1996
Woodland near Netherburn, near Larkhall
November 1996
- Evidence
- Single witness account
- Access
- Access unrecorded
- Location
- 55.707, -3.911 (Parish-level only, treat as an area)
Sources: Scottish Big Cats, "Two sightings of large black cats near Netherburn" [other]; Scottish Big Cats, "Non-native Cat Sightings in Lanarkshire" [other]
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