This a plain, short, video of a very beautiful domestic cat. Nothing happens. Don’t expect fireworks. The cat happens to be Guinness World Record holder but I won’t dwell on that. The cat is Magic and she walks around like any other domestic cat. You sense that she is a little bit sharper than the average domestic cat. That is not to denigrate the domestic cat.
The domestic cat is sharp but the father of the cat you see in the video is a serval, a medium-sized wild cat that lives in Africa. It shows. The hear the voice of Kathrin Stucki. She is a very nice, intelligent Swiss lady. She raised the cat you see. She lives in the home that you see. It is in Oklahoma. This cat now lives in California. Would you like to care for a cat like Magic?
It does seem so very sad that some people breed from wild cats to have something different in their home and meanwhile already domesticated small cats are being killed daily because there are no homes for them.
Why can’t they leave wild cats in the wild to breed with their own kind as Nature intended?
Like everything else in this world, it’s all wrong and very very sad.
Pleasure and thank you for all your information in comments which I have found very interesting and useful.
Thanks for the clarification Michael, I have one book which I am sure refers to the Asiatic Fishing Cat, though that was a book published in 1982, a general cat care compendium type of book. I hope everyone who has a Savannah cat is able to provide a great environment for it. As we know, people’s definition of “great environment” can vary 😉
Thanks Jane. The F5 Savannahs are like standard domestic cats. The cat in the video is pure half wild cat an F1 first filial. Her father was a serval. Normally these cats, the f4s and f5s have Savannah cat fathers and mothers.
The Bengal is actually an Asian leopard cat hybrid (also called “leopard cat”). Yes, the first bengals were breed from leopard cats that were being experimented on in 1960s.
As I responded to Marc, the video is a cold, dispassionate look at what it feels like to have a large domestic wild cat hybrid in the home. They require more input as you can expect than the average domestic cat.
Well said, good comment as usual. The video is a piece of video I had not used. It is nothing special, deliberately so to make it more real and less flashy. The video is not meant to be pro-wild cat hybrid. I guess you realised that. It is just a bit of video to get a feel what it is like to keep a 25+ pound wild cat hybrid.
I agree that cats like this need a lot of input and stimulation and for that a large messy house and a large enclosure (I would think) is the only way.
Yes, I prefer moggies too. Much easier to live with. The big Savannah cats appeal to people who like flashy lifestyles. The King of Morocco keeps one (or more, not sure) of these cats. That sort of person is a typical client.