The shelter, located in Bergheim, about 25 miles from Cologne, immediately identified it as a European wildcat, which is the size of a large domestic cat and a protected species native to the area.

The Highland tiger, a subpopulation of the European wildcat (Felis silvestris) found in Scotland, was declared functionally extinct in a conservation status assessment published in 2019 ...

The Scottish wildcat, a population of European wildcat found only in Scotland, ... like a tiger’s. Most notably, a wildcat has a thick tail with a round, blunt tip. Unlike most tabby cats, ...

Oct. 25 (UPI) --A seemingly orphaned or abandoned kitten brought to an animal shelter in Germany displayed unusually aggressive behavior that resulted in it being identified as a European wildcat ...

But “our results do not support a Neolithic origin for domestic cats,” Doherty’s team writes. Their work shows that the animal in Cyprus may have been a European wildcat brought over from ...