A FAMILY living in a home bordering fields where rare video footage of the "beast" was taken say their dogs are being unfairly blamed for killing sheep.
And Keith Davies says he believes a large cat is now more or less resident in the area, killing animals on a regular basis every three or four days.
"That fits exactly into the pattern of how these animals feed. Sometimes there is a lull, when they have killed a fox or something else perhaps," he said.
Mr Davies, whose wife Christina has actually seen the large black animal while in the company of other people, says he has had two angry accusations about his dogs, which are never unsupervised, from local farmers.
On the most recent occasion he actually called the police to come and witness that his dogs showed no signs of having attacked anything, and they agreed.
"If you saw how these sheep were left you would say it was impossible for a dog to have done it," said Mr Davies.
"There is only the head left and bits of the rib cage, picked clean. You can't tell me a dog would have eaten all that, on top of the food you give them. And they would have traces of blood on them."
Mrs Davies said she had seen the large black animal 'something like the size of a great dane' in the field below her property about four years ago, and had watched it crossing the grass with some visitors.
"One of them actually ran down to try to get a closer look," she said. It was definitely not a dog because of the way it carried itself, and it looked all-black from where she was standing.
At about the same time she learned a near neighbour had caused a stir by recording pictures of the animal on his video recorder which have never yet been found to be faked.
She hated the suggestions that her dogs were to blame. "I am getting so fed up with it," she said.