21.   A big angry cat, it was.

22.   A friend of mine had a big Maine Coon cat named Sylvester.

23.   Add a lack of exercise, and the result is a big cat.

24.   Bounties once paid for the big cats were discontinued decades ago, and restrictions were placed on hunting.

25.   But more wild dogs and big cats are lurking in the bush.

26.   Cougars and other big cats are excited by them.

27.   Craig Packer of the University of Minnesota says in the journal Nature that canine distemper from local dogs has brought down the big cats.

28.   During the next two months, Miller said, he received reports from four other people about being stalked by the big cats.

29.   Elsewhere in Florida, Gwazi, the new double wooden roller coaster at Busch Gardens in Tampa, pits two big cats in a battle of coaster supremacy.

30.   Exxon Corp., which for years claimed to put a tiger in your gas tank, now says the big cats no longer belong at local service stations.