Kellas Cat

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The Kellas Cat is a small black feline found in Scotland. Once thought to be a mythological wild cat, with its few sightings dismissed as hoaxes, a specimen was shot and killed in 1984 by a gamekeeper named Ronnie Douglas^{[citation needed]} and found to be a hybrid between wild and domestic sub-species of Felis silvestris.^[1] The specimen was named by cryptozoologist Dr Karl Shuker after the village of Kellas in Moray, where it was first found. Shuker suggested that the Cait Sidhe of Celtic mythology might well be based on folk memory of Kellas Cats.

The Kellas cat is described as being over 65 cm (25 inches) long, with powerful and long hind legs and a tail that can grow to be around 30 cm (12 inches) long.^{[citation needed]} A specimen is kept in a museum in Elgin.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Wild Cat
• British big cats
• Phantom cat

References

• Karl Shuker: Mystery Cats of the World. Robert Hale: London 1989. ISBN 0-7090-3706-6
• Karl Shuker: 'The Kellas cat: reviewing an enigma'. Cryptozoology, vol. 9, pp. 26–40 (1990)

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