New York City exotic animal trader sold wildcat kittens as house pets

Young caracals believed to be the ones traded by Casacci

NEWS AND VIEWS: In violation of New York State law governing the commercial possession and sale of wild cat species such as the caracal and serval, Christopher Casacci, 38, of Amherst, traded in these exotic African cats under the guise of selling domestic pets. He sold dozens of caracals and servals for $7,500 to …

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Stryker the Cat is a serval not an F1 Savannah cat

Stryker the Cat is a serval not an F1 Savannah cat

There is a celebrity cat on the Internet called Stryker the Cat. We don’t even know the gender of this cat but I will presume that she is female for the time being because she is on the small side, let’s say, for a serval. And she is a serval not a Savannah cat …

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Why do servals have big ears and short tails?

Seval big ears short tail

The answer is fairly straightforward. They have big ears because most of their hunting takes place in long grass detecting small mammals with their ears. They can pick up the sound of prey travelling through the undergrowth with their highly sensitive ears and huge ocelli (ear flaps). The serval’s long legs go with their …

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Do servals live in groups?

Servals are solitary

Do servals live in groups? No, servals are solitary animals. There have been reports of the odd sightings of groups or pairings but it was found that they consisted of a mother and kittens or a mating pair. That’s the answer and I nothing more to add except that the reference for this information …

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Serval owner faces 21 criminal charges after cat escapes and attacks dog

Stacy Elliot

This is another example of failed serval cat ownership. A complete disaster. Ezekiel Elliott is an American football star and his father, Stacy Elliott, allegedly bought a serval without a permit. Servals have to be confined with the owner’s property because they are too large to wander around. They are wild animals. They frighten …

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