Wild cats

Scottish Wildcat Mum and kitten

Scottish Wildcat kitten

Same Mum and kitten

Lately I have been doing research on small wild cat in particular the Scottish wild cat the Margay cat and some on the African wild cat /domestic cat. Here are some of the things I learned about them. The African wild cat is small with farley small ears and long bushy ringed tail. It is about the same size as a domestic cat which was supposedly bred from the African wild cat they classified as the same species. The Scottish wild cat looks similar to a tabby cat in many ways but it is larger and were a tabby is splotched it is striped also the Scottish wild cat has a blunt tail were a Tabby's is pointed. This wild cat is very fierce and almost impossible to tame even from a tiny kitten. This cat was once found over most of the British isle's but is now found mainly in the highlands of Scotland. The Margay cat looks like an ocelot but is a good bit smaller. The Margay cat also looks like an oncilla but is bigger. The most interesting fact about the Margay is its great agility and its ability to jump from tree to tree like a monkey swing from a single hind paw and run head first down a tree like a marten I think that is pretty cool.