The big cat returns

Britain is a country mercifully bereft of threatening fauna–or so you might believe. John Lewis-Stempel provides a miscellany of our otherwise benign land’s more fearsome critters

COACHMAN NOW HAS a UK market share of just over 20%, the company’s Swedish owner KABE has said in results for the first half of this year, released in October. Posting an operating profit of SEK73m (£

SARAH DITUM

It was her usual morning dog walk. Only this time, a killer was lurking

Unfairly maligned as a sneaky troublemaker, the quicksilver ferret is a characterful, curious and highly intelligent creature–with fascinating regal and cultural trappings to boot, writes Octavia Pollock

TRAVELLING WITH DOGS is on the rise and has been for quite some time. Several studies and surveys have shown that, more often than not, dog owners prefer to travel with their pets. Earlier this year,