Having seen the photo of the creature, a moggy if ever there was one!Honestly you can tell its the 'silly season'. Shame the police had to spend so much time on it.
HildaW You're quite right. An experiment was done with visitors to Disneyland and all were persuaded that they had seen Bugs Bunny (a Warner Brothers cartoon character).
We've been laughing at the telly presenter who stands in a field doing a piece to camera saying it's all been a hoax. Why can we not take our eyes of the hedge behind him?
I do think its possible for people to genuinely think they've seen a 'big cat' as there usually isn't any way to gauge the scale at long distances , if its a genuine mistake I'm sure no one would blame them for reporting it just in case.