A witness says that a large “leopard-sized” beast was spotted jumping from a garden tree in an evening sighting earlier this month.
Puma Watch North Wales, which tracks big cat sightings across the country, has reported a sighting in the area by a man named ‘David’.
He reported witnessing what appeared to be a leopard-sized animal jump from a garden tree and over a wall on the evening of Thursday, April 16.
David told Puma Watch: “Was in the middle of closing window blind last Thursday around 8:20pm and saw a leopard-sized silhouette jump down from a garden tree to over the wall.”
There have been multiple alleged big cat sightings in Powys in recent years. These have included a sighting in Knighton in 2024 and another on the Powys border near Crew Green only last year.
Puma Watch has found that big cat sightings have been recorded in Powys since 2003.
It has been theorised that big cats have been in the wild since the mid-1970s. It was made illegal to keep big cats such as leopards and pumas without a licence under the Dangerous Wild Animals Act of 1976 made. Before this exotic animals were kept
One theory has it that before the act came into force many of these animals were released into the wild so that the owners did not have to pay the fees for a licence.
Some people think that the animals that are sometimes reported in the mid Wales countryside are descendants of those animals, and are now wandering the British countryside.