Cat head-butting happens a lot. It is scent exchange and friendship reinforcement. I believe this is the hardest domestic cat head-butt on YouTube! Therefore it is the hardest. If someone can disprove that statement, I’d be pleased.
The cat is Titan – an F1 Savannah. This short video is an extract from an earlier video. The person is Kathrin Stucki formerly of A1 Savannahs in Oklahoma who raised Titan. That is why Titan is so close to her. The voice you first hear is the human caretaker of Titan. I have forgotten his name, sorry. They are in a large pet shop, warehouse facility in the USA.
Titan stopped everyone who walked by him, which is bound to happen because he is so impressive. He has a sweet, boyish voice. His “owner” calls him manly. Yes, he is, but he is also quite young and more a big boy than a man (without anthropomorphizing cats). He certainly gives you a belt when he shows his friendship.
F1 and F2 Savannah cats are large and impressive. For a person to wander around a store with a first filial Savannah cat on a lead is very rare and very noticeable. These cats are exceptional. You can count them on the fingers of one hand in the USA. I suppose that makes them very valuable and therefore prone to being stolen on the street or in the store! Just to be clear ‘F1’ means that the cat’s father is a Serval (a medium-to-large wild cat species) and the mother is a domestic cat, probably another Savannah cat with the correct coat type. These cats have a wild side as you can imagine. Living with them takes some organising and people should not make the decision to live with a high filial wild cat hybrid lightly.
Note: This page was first published on 28th Feb 2013. I have republished it because older pages can become forgotten by Google and they become almost invisible which is a shame because they deserve to be seen. The republishing is why the comments are dated Feb. 2013.
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You’re very welcome. I am more than happy to write about our branch, I love writing, so any area of the work we do you would like to know about just let me know.
I am just writing about you right now 😉 I have selected a part of your experiences. Thanks. You’re a star.
I actually need to update, I’ll just do it as a comment, the lovely Eva who is in the blog was adopted on Friday, Trixie on Sunday and Gaia, the little kitten found in a garden I mention went to her forever home a week ago 🙂
You are more than welcome to use it Michael, I wrote it for people to learn more about what fostering can entail 🙂
Ruth, I know how generous the members of PoC have been to our branch, we appreciate every donation they have made, it’s a great site and a wonderful way of helping rescues.
You make an excellent point as usual. I hate to say it but it seems to me that super exotic cats tend to seen as possessions much like a super car or a great kitchen. That is not to say that the owners don’t love their exotic cats and care for them extremely well. They do. But the motivation to adopt such a cat is sometimes different to our motivation.
Vicky, as I love to read about real rescue cases, I have a question. Would you either (a) let me publish your article on PoC or (b) write something for PoC about cat fostering? As a reward PoC would be happy to make a donation to Cats Protection.