This is a bit of fun (mainly). Light-heartedness after some heavyish stuff. There is a photo on Facebook taken by the Savannah Cat Shoppe called “Serval Cat’s photo” meaning a photo of serval cats. It is also captioned “All seven”. It may have been taken with a mobile phone. It is an interesting photo.
Initially, I thought that there were two caracals in the photo as well. Then I noticed that there were three caracals.
Then I noticed that there were six servals. But there may be a seventh. I am not sure. I can’t therefore agree with the photographer who might be the owner of the Savannah Cat Shoppe. It is not clear how the photographer had decided that he/she had photographed 7 servals. Not criticism intended – just a bit fun.
The picture could be “Three caracals and seven servals (maybe)!”
Here is the picture and my scribbles.

There are one or two lingering questions. What are these wild cats doing all bunched up in a conservatory? The picture is interesting, for sure, but it is a bit odd. The cats look sheepish and anxious or am I misjudging the cats’ demeanour?
They are medium sized wild cat species. Both are quite amenable to being domesticated or being around people. The caracal has been used to hunt with people in Asia and the serval is frequently domesticated and treated as a pet in American homes. There are downsides to that arrangement (a) servals are declawed when domesticated because they are strong cats and (b) they spray everywhere, we are told. If you like cat pee inside the home, fine, otherwise don’t bother and (c) servals can escape and that causes all kinds of problems (mainly for the cat).
Associated: Living with servals and caracals.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Savannah-Cat-Shoppe/117174268304075
I like this topic, combining Savannahs, Servals, Caracals, photo-imaging and photography in one. Okay, so here’s why I believed there to be only seven, rather than the 3 Caracals and 6/7 Servals. I spent some time looking at SavannahCatShoppe’s images on FB and their homesite. She has a lot of distorted? pictures up, such as this one. I think it could be blamed on her tiny, poor lens and one Serval and Caracal being chubby. (?) The cat ontop of the sink in this pic can also fool the eye if you stare for a few seconds. …can we get a higher pixellation? 😉
There is a page on the Savannah Cat Shoppe (or three).
Personally, I feel sure the picture is genuine and there are definitely 3 caracals and 6 servals. If you look closely at the caracals there are three bodies with one body without a visible head as it is behind the serval top right it seems.
Okay, this IS fun. Michael? Got to question this bit: I can’t therefore agree with the photographer who might be the owner of the Savannah Cat Shoppe. -Michael
Might be? Well then, who IS the owner of the Savannah Cat Shoppe? 😉
At first, I thought Marc’s right about that. Two “bodies” aren’t quite right. But after studying it with my readers on, and after comparing to various googleimages of caracals’ frontquarters, I’m thinking that the photographer knows what she’s talking about (even though, two Caracals + five Servals= 7 –the Servals outnumber, so they get the title!).
As for the demeanor, it looks they’d been standing there alert for some time, waiting to be fed, and then slowly gave up on the prospect, knowing what their human is like w/ that cellphone camera. 😉
lol, I’ll bet that was amusing! Those are the ones I’d be keeping my eye on, if I was that Savannah.
I think Marc may be right. Some or all of it looks photoshopped.
I saw a savannah once 2 years ago. A couple had him in their shopping cart at Petsmart.
He was stunning and had a “presence”. I assumed that the almost growls he emitted were normal. He was as docile as a lamb and his people were very kind and didn’t mind answering questions.
It was interesting to watch how many people looked frightened of him and wouldn’t go near.
I loved it.