He said: "I've heard these kind of stories before and I've always thought they were a wind-up but now I've seen one for myself. "I was looking out of the window and then I saw this really big cat, so I ran straight outside to have a look at it.
"It was walking along through the woods at quite a slow pace. It was obviously much bigger than a normal cat because it stood about 18 inches off the ground. But it wasn't anything like a dog. "It was either a puma or a lynx or something.