The B.C. government is proposing to ban the breeding, sale and future ownership of all exotic and non-domestic cats, ...

The British Columbia government is proposing to ban the breeding, sale and future ownership of all exotic and non-domestic cats, including servals, ocelots and European wildcats.

The European wildcat is the smallest of Europe’s cats and is a subspecies of the African wildcat, which is thought to be the ancestor of domestic breeds.

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 rise of the domestic cat may have come at a cost to Europe’s native wildcats. Ottoni and Doherty both document a sharp decline in European wildcats starting in the Roman period — centuries ...

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 ...