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Sat 03 Mar 2007Pine marten link to decline in grey squirrelsAnother Life:Among the potential excitements of opening up one's holiday house in any conifered corner of Ireland this Easter may be a sense of other presences upstairs, together with a whiff of something musky or worse and a muffled miaowing that doesn't quite sound like cats.The pine marten is, indeed, the "cat crainn" of Irish tradition, but in exchanging the treetop for the second-home roof-space, it can become something other than a pet.