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[gwynhefar]

Ancestor of the domestic cat found

Apparently they've discovered a subspecies of wild cat that is genetically indistinguishable from the domestic cat. There's a picture here, and doesn't that just look like the tabby next door?

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[puddock.livejournal.com]

In my teens I used to go grouse beating, it was a good way to walk in the hills and get paid. I spotted what I thought was a domestic moggy asleep in the heather, I could not get my head round it, a cat here in the hills in the middle of no where. So I pointed it out to the gamekeeper. He laughed and told me it was a Scottish Wild Cat. I could not get over how it looked just like a domestic cat.