Wildcats

✍ Scribed by Mike Tomkies, Denys Ovenden

• Publisher: Whittet Books
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 110
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"From this accidental and shaky start, my wildcat breeding experiment began, and the detailed personal adventures were told in my book Wildcat Haven. Ultimately three litters were raised and nine pure wildcats were released into the wild, after Sylvesturr returned from his first winter in the wilds to mate again with Cleo.
It is on these studies, more recent scientific research, and a great deal more observations in the wild than I have hitherto recorded, that the information in the book is based."

✦ Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• What is a wildcat?
• What's the difference between a wildcat and a domestic one?
• The wildcat in Britain
• Senses
• How ferocious are they?
• The wildcat menu
• Are they a danger to livestock?
• How they hunt
• Territory and dens
• Caterwaul
• Courtship and mating
• Breeding
• Development of young
• Raising young
• Enemies
• Can a wildcat be tamed?
• Can I see a wildcat?
• Do wildcats interbreed with feral domestics?
• How is the wildcat doing now?
• Mystery black cats
• Selected bibliography
• Index

✦ Subjects

memoir, wildcat, Scotland, Scottish wildcat, domestication, taming, rearing, domestic cat, illustrated