Posted by Peter on October 24, 1997 at 03:57:38:
In Reply to: Re: What is your "wild cat"? posted by Charles Coull on October 23, 1997 at 09:52:10:
I must explain why I said I think "Wild Cat" refers to a stray cat. This is the case in new Zealand, we have wild cats, which have probably filled the ecological niche of the Scottish wild cats, they are lean and dark-coloured creatures, seemingly backwardly evolving from the house cat to something much less tame. They are officially called "feral" cats. I am relived to learn that there is a wild cat species, because when my japanese friends re-interpreted "wild" as "stray" it seeemed so disappointing a term for The Terror of The Seas.