five years ago i released a juvenile civet i caught in my house in Bukit Gasing. there was a family of civets living in my rooftop, and this one happened to be found wandering around my porch at night, so i took a cat carrier and enticed it in with a banana. but it kept hissing and getting too stressed up i took it off to Bukit Gasing the next day. Now the family is still up there in my rooftop beams making noises at night, like birds twittering .

civet cats are getting increasingly used to human presence, but they do not allow themselves to be seen that easily.