savannah cats

Diablo
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Diablo

Male Savannah CatDOB appx. 1/1/05Rescued 3/4/08 Moved to Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge on December 14, 2023 Diablo is a savannah cat, which is a hybrid between a domestic cat and an African serval. This cross-breeding is not only cruel to the animals involved but also produces confused offspring that can not figure out how to…

Beacher
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Beacher

Savannah CatDOB 11/11/12Arrived at Big Cat Rescue 11/13/17 Moved to Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge on December 29, 2023 On Beacher’s 5th birthday his owner gave him the gift of his freedom…well, the most freedom he can have anyway, as an F1 Savannah Cat. Beacher had been purchased as a 7 week old kitten from the…

King Tut

King Tut

Male Savannah Cat 1/1/2009 – 5/3/2022 Arrived 10/16/2012 King Tut has long dealt with a neurological condition that we were never able to treat fully.  In the end, his lab reports showed a thyroid condition that we tried to treat, but by May of 2022 he had lost his will to fight the underlying issues…

Simba Savannah Cat

Simba Savannah Cat

Simba Savannah Cat 4/1/05 – 12/4/21 12/4/2021:  Simba Savannah Cat Has Been Euthanized.  A few days ago Simba Savannah cat began acting weird, including tearing up his blankets. Thinking he might be bored inside, where he’d been brought in to keep him from the mosquitos that caused his allergies, and with the cooler weather, we…

Loki

Loki

Loki Savannah CatDOB 1/1/14?Date Arrived 12/26/17 Loki was purchased from a breeder by a family.  Sadly when the husband and wife divorced neither had room in their lives for this young wildcat and tried to relinquish him to the local shelter.  The shelter however would not take him.  It was their policy to refuse all wildcat hybrids. Lucky…

Hybrid Facts

We Love ALL Cats We love big cats, small cats, wild cats, tame cats, friendly cats, fierce cats and YES, hybrid cats.  It is because we love all cats, for who they are, that we fight so hard to protect them.  Hybrid breeders will tell you that we seek legislation that will take your hybrids from…

The rise of the supercat

The rise of the supercat In our “bigger-is-better,” super-size-me society, it may not come as much of a surprise that demand for designer “supercats” — domestic breeds crossed with larger, exotic African or South American wildcats — is surging skyward. In the United Kingdom, breeders are reporting up to six-month waiting lists for new kittens,…