Wildcats
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Here's a news clip[FONT=arial, sans-serif][/FONT]originally posted By Dogoak.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...lands-19569538
Very similar to the problem of hybridisation within the Rea deer and Sika deer population.
The only way ahead surly is to keep a pure bloodline going by isolating some pure blood Wildcat's as a breading stock, if not its down the Capercallie route and reintroduction.
I always wondered why one of the wildlife organisations SNH,SWT whoever never introduced some breading pairs to some “domestic cat free” forested islands of Scotland so we would always have a pure line breeding stock in the event of this, after all this interbreeding problem has been known about for many years now.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...lands-19569538
Very similar to the problem of hybridisation within the Rea deer and Sika deer population.
The only way ahead surly is to keep a pure bloodline going by isolating some pure blood Wildcat's as a breading stock, if not its down the Capercallie route and reintroduction.
I always wondered why one of the wildlife organisations SNH,SWT whoever never introduced some breading pairs to some “domestic cat free” forested islands of Scotland so we would always have a pure line breeding stock in the event of this, after all this interbreeding problem has been known about for many years now.
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Same thing's happening in the N.E. of France with hybridisation of the wildcat populations. Banning cats within, say, a 20 mile radius of known wildcat sites & natural corridors, would be in my opinion the best solution but I suppose that would be denying the inhabitant's human right's to have cats.
