When Did British Wild Cats Die Out -plus some facts Zoologists ignore through dogma

The above is probably a Gen 3 or 4 wild cat and actually has more of the Old wild cat in it than today's "Wild tabbies" (c)2022 British Wild cat and Feral Study

Here is something for those soliciting money to save extinct wild cats from extinction (I launch my own Save the Dodo fundraiser next week 😁)

 Source: Jardine, The Naturalist's Library, 1838

Cuvier in 1834 refers to the British wildcats and their length of 3ft+ (90cms) and also states that he would certainly not wish to meet the largest "of puma or leopard size"

So, as I explained in The Red Paper 2022 Vol.1 Felids, there WERE wildcats in Ireland and the existence of same was only argued by later naturalists (late Victorian) who simply had not seen or shot one. Origins of these cats I also covered.

When the Red Paper felids is published you can read the exact words declaring the Scottish wild cat as being extinct by 1860.  Coincidentally, that was around the year the last of the British Old Fox types survived to.