Wildcat - Wildwood, Kent, England - Sunday August 3rd 2008. Click here to see the Larger image

Well, I should have done what I said I was going to do yesterday....that is go and see the new X-Files film - "I want to believe"....because instead I went to "Wildwood" in Kent, where they have a collection of rare forest dwelling critters....The weather although not wet, was appalling, the light was terrible..and being a wooded environment made it even darker...it was more like a November afternoon then July...I even had to put my car headlights on, on the way home...at 4:30pm...it was that dark!!! Hence the image of this lil wild cat had to be taken with the flash!!..Oh well, better luck next time hey..:O)))

Learn all about the Scottish Wildcats here - www.scottishwildcats.co.uk/

From the above website ~ Scotland's Cat; 400 and counting...

Far back in the history of Scotland clans formed together under the image of the wildcat and fought wars for the independence of the land. Today less than 400 Scottish wildcats remain in the wild and the extinction of Britain's last large mammal predator could come within the next decade.

Welcome to the home of the Scottish Wildcat Association, a new charitable organisation dedicated to protecting and conserving Britain's only remaining wild species of feline; the Scottish wildcat.

No angry tabby or feral the wildcat is a genuine wild species of feline; it was here long before we were and long before the domestic cat had even evolved! The Scottish wildcat is infamously the only wild animal to be completely untameable, even when captive reared; they may look a little like your pet cat but these are incredibly tough superpredators, sometimes called the Tiger of the Highlands.