This is another tidbit of exotic Americana; the world of private zoos, exotic cats and equally exotic names and behaviour. Joe Exotic has been in the news a lot recently because he is serving a 22 year prison sentence for … Continue reading →
It is all over the news today and people are hunting for answers on this site to questions about the need for a license to own a serval or F1 Savannah (first generation serval x domestic cat hybrid). I wrote … Continue reading →
Pictures showing mouth and nose swabs being taken from tigers at Miami Zoo to test for Covid-19. They tested negative but had symptoms of a feline infection perhaps a cold.
Continue reading →It appears that the cat was calmer than the people because someone decided to try and nudge the bobcat down on the assumption that he or she was stuck up there.
Continue reading →This 30-year-old man living in Cornwall, UK says that he was attacked by a 6 foot panther-like big cat which grabbed his hand through a window. He says that as he has thick skin he didn’t suffer any damage! It … Continue reading →
You may already know that some wealthy people in the Middle East like to pose in their flashy cars with exotic cats in the passenger seat. They often pose with tiger cubs or sometimes cheetahs. This unfortunate craze promotes a … Continue reading →
This is a regrettable incident which concerns a domesticated serval whose name is Copper. Copper was hand-raised and brought to the Potawatomi Zoo when he was six months old as an education animal and is today aged four. He is … Continue reading →
A rare clouded leopard was trapped by a Cornish farmer, after wandering around the countryside allegedly feeding on sheep. The evidence points to the escape of this cat from an enclosure owned by a man, Todd Dalton, who had relocated … Continue reading →
Don’t blame the leopard, he was there first in the evolution of leopard and human. In India, his territory has often been occupied by people and as a result the leopard in general has been (a) forced to live in … Continue reading →
The IUCN Red List (the “experts”) says that there are some “vagrant” jaguars in America close to the Mexican border. They are correct except that there is only one known jaguar in the entire United States and it has been … Continue reading →
