A man who had been on a night out 'drinking with his boys' says he spotted a puma on a roof. James Davies claims he saw the large cat near the Chester City Centre Market when he had stepped out to go the toilet.
Speaking to Puma Watch North Wales he described the moment he saw an animal that was 'far too big to be a dog' at around 7pm on September 3 before it shot out of site, Cheshire Live reports. James told Puma Watch: "I was out drinking with the boys in the market in Chester. You have to go outside and into another old building to get to the toilets and, when I went around the corner where the toilets are, I spotted something moving on the roof opposite that made me look up from my phone.
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“It was sniffing around behind the back of the wall so at first I thought it was a dog on the roof for some reason. It must have heard me because it lifted its head and looked down at me, then immediately turned and ran away.
“I ran to the corner and looked along the roof towards the car park but there was no sign of it, it had disappeared.
“When it looked at me I could clearly see it was a cat of some kind. It was far too big to be a dog, it had short pointy ears and yellow eyes and its face looked exactly like a puma. The evening sun caught against its coat and I could see it was quite silky, like a cat, and it had a big curling tail."
Cheshire Live reports how he managed to snap a picture of the animal but not until after it had turned around to run away. James then went to show 'the boys' but said they were 'sceptical'.
James' report is the latest in a long list of sightings of apparent big, black cats in and around the Chester area. In June, a commuter claimed to have seen a 'fairly large, black' animal near the Texaco Garage near Sealand.
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