The Scottish Wildcat - on the verge of extinction

[Nathan]

The wildcat is 'just' a cat - it can interbreed with the domestic cat and produces fertile offspring - the DNA don't give a hoot how it survives, as long as it does. It is against nature for living things to remain unchanging.

The wildcat is a beautiful animal, but it is always going to strive to breed and survive even if it is hybridising - something it has no concept of.

The hybrid animals will probably be living closer to people, their offspring will possibly become pets and survive to breed at least once. The pure bred wildcats might run out of habitat or breeding partners but the DNA will be in a cat sitting by the fire - and no doubt looking smug.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

A wolf can breed with a domestic dog and produce viable offspring too, but that doesn't mean - to my way of thinking - that a wolf is "just" a dog. It would be a pity if wolves were lost to nature and likewise a pity for the Scottish wildcat to be lost as well, not withstanding the fact that they're interfertile.