These cats are (as their name suggests) native animals but pure bred ones are nowadays increasingly confined to remote parts of Northern Europe (there are a few in Scotland). The Dutch nature societies regularly put up cameras and electronic tracking gadgets in the woods to check what animals are in there.
This is what they found in the woods
EN : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_wildcat
NL : https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europese_wilde_kat
It was once commonly believed that hybrids of the wild cat and domestic cat (itself often a hybrid of Felis x Prionailurus spp, Prionailurus being the small Asian wild cats) are untameable; this is untrue although it is mostly strong minded human females in matriarchal/feminist communities who can tame the kittens (there are a lot of these hybrids as pet cats in some parts of Northern England/Scotland, NL and DE 😉 )
Bron (NL) : Bijzonder: wilde kat gespot op Strabrechtse Heide – Heeze – dichtbij.nl – Eindhoven
