An animal seized by police, believing it to be of a rare and vicious species, turned out to be a simple domestic tabby cat.
North Wales Police seized the animal, which they believed was a Scottish Wildcat, a species rarer than the tiger, after it was reported that a man in the Conwy area was keeping a member of the protected species without license. The force has now confirmed that was an ordinary domestic house cat.
In February, officers searched a private address and found a one-year-old kitten which was being cared for by St Asaph-based rescue group, Wildcat Haven, who said they were rehabilitating the animal after finding it abandoned in the Scottish central highlands. Wildcat Haven said they were planning to release the animal, named Finlay, back into the wild before he was seized on Valentine's Day, North Wales Live reported.
