The Taranaki story of the weasel and the eel prompts a Palmerston naturalist to ask if any reader can explain the almost frenzied taste for fish shown by domestic cats, whicn have quite frequently been known to upset a heavy glass bowk in their haste to capture a goldfish (says the local “Times”). These alone appear to indicate that the ancestor was a fisher; but the fact that they have an instinctive aversion to water rather upsets the theory.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4414, 15 May 1922, Page 4
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