I saw a wildcat when I was 13. I'd snapped the chain on my wee trials bike and was walking it down the muddy track from the top of the Ewrie(up the back of Lamlash on Arran) when it wandered out of the forestry onto the track, glanced in my direction, walked slowly across then flicked me a disgusted glance before disappearing into the woods again.
It had brown and grey tabby markings and was about the size of a collie.
My father saw one about a year later in much the same area. We figured it was a different one as his had no grey in it's markings.
When one of our friends had his henhouse cleaned out he found large cat prints but was advised by the local insurance guy to blame it on the mink as the agency didn't take wildcats seriously.
Another big cat site.
http://www.bigcats.org/abc/index.html
It had brown and grey tabby markings and was about the size of a collie.
My father saw one about a year later in much the same area. We figured it was a different one as his had no grey in it's markings.
When one of our friends had his henhouse cleaned out he found large cat prints but was advised by the local insurance guy to blame it on the mink as the agency didn't take wildcats seriously.
Another big cat site.
http://www.bigcats.org/abc/index.html
