A MYSTERY animal that the witness believes was a puma was spotted in Denbighshire.

The location near Cyffylliog is just a few miles from a previous sighting in Llansannan

It is also close to both the Denbigh Moors and Clocaenog Forest thought to be an ideal habitat for big cats should they exist here in the UK.

The encounter with the "grey" animal took place at around 3pm on Thursday, April 1.

In a report to Puma Watch North Wales, the group set up to investigate such encounters, Huw Roberts claims to have seen what could have been the same animal at around midnight a few days earlier.

Mr Morris said: “I hopped over a fence and saw a cat slightly larger than a Labrador in a field about five metres away. It ran away as soon as it heard me land and saw me. I was alone.

“I had already encountered what I now believe to be the same type of animal (possibly the same one), several days before at closer quarters. It was around midnight and so I couldn’t see what it was, but I was startled as it growled at me in a way that did not sound like a dog.

“I could tell in the dark that it was not the right shape for a dog.”