The Hungarian Tiger

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "alice_loves_cats"
<hypercolor99 at h...> wrote:

<< The six-year-old who first saw the beast in the Mecsek hills was
rather taken aback, and after running home to Mummy, proceeded to draw
a picture of the animal she had met. It was, unmistakeably, a sketch
of a fully grown stripey tiger-tiger-burning-bright. >>

<< A couple of days later, more pawmarks are found, and the search
intensifies. There is another problem, though: the tiger doesn't seem
to be eating anything - all the sheep in the district, for instance,
are still alive. It also doesn't seem to have any fur: or rather, it's
not leaving it clinging to bushes. People get suspicious of the
paw-marks, and examine them again. They are again confirmed to belong
to a tiger. >>

The website list of msgs showed this sequence: 
23035 The Hungarian Tiger 
23026 So, where's he from?

So, suggestions of where The Hungarian Tiger is from:
1) A new Animagus. Then we would have new information about Animagi,
that they don't shed.
2) An illegal pet tiger that is being walked on a leash rather than
having escaped. Then where are the footprints of the person walking
it, and how does he keep it from leaving fur behind?
3) A hoaxter making pawprints from casts of real tiger pawprints from
India. How does he conceal his own footprints near the fakes? How did
he get the six-year-old to see a tiger? If he bribed the six-year-old
to lie, wouldn't she have told her mother when all the fuss happened?