For the first time in over 30 years a wild cat has been caught on Canister Moors, Caithness. It was striped and measured 36 inches from its nose to the tip of its tail. It was caught alive in a trap set for foxes by Mr Torn Mackay, a gamekeeper, but as it was vicious it had to be shot.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 August 1939, Page 6
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