Definitely not the Beast of Sydenham. Photograph: Alessia Pierdomenico/Reuters
"Prove and Protect" - that's the slogan of the British Big Cats Society. No doubt its site will be inundated with visitors today in the wake of the news of the "Beast of Sydenham", as reported in the Guardian and elsewhere. There are no pictures of panthers with slavering mouths, but a pie chart that imparts a degree of seriousness to the enterprise, revealing that the south-west is big cat central, accounting for 21% of sightings - even though the skull of the supposed Beast of Bodmin was proved to be a hoax, thanks to some detective work from a Natural History Museum entomologist.
If you've seen a big cat (preferably not just your moggie after a particularly large bowl of Whiskas), send us a pic to weblog@guardianunlimited.co.uk and we'll treat your sighting with the utmost seriousness. Or possibly just laugh and point. Either way, you'll get extra kudos if you've seen the Beast of Milton Keynes. (And yes, this is a bid to prove how much harder we are than the Observer Blog.)
