Thinking of Getting a Savannah Cat…

[VaporRyder]

So I’ve kept a multitude of snakes (including Retics, Burms, and a juvenile Green Anaconda), many tarantulas, a few frogs and lizards, and just a couple of mammals - rabbits and chinchilla. Oh, and an African Dwarf Crocodile on a DWAL.

Now I’ve suddenly realised that I absolutely *need* a Savannah Cat!

Anyone know anything about keeping these? Discuss!

 

[birdonfire]

Save a life. Foster or adopt a shelter cat.

 

[KelKel]

In my limited experience, I would advise against it unless you enjoy every material item you own being shredded. The only ones I have met personally were two Savannah "kittens" (they were much bigger than your average domestic feline even then) that came in for a spay and neuter (1 male, 1 female) where I worked as an auxiliary veterinary nurse in a vet hospital and they ended up staying overnight afterwards. It was a wild ride. The male was relatively placid for a hybridized wild cat, the female...not at all.

 

[l4nsky]

If you don't have experience with wild cats, look for an F2+. F1 are 50-50 hybrids, an F2 is a F1 bred to a domestic cat, so it's a 75-25 hybrid leaning towards domestic and so on. I don't have any first hand experience with them personally, but I've heard they're like dogs in a cat body. They also have a very high prey drive and this can translate to them constantly playing with and destroying things they deem to be toys.

 

[Frogdaddy]

They like high things. Like your average "cat tree" isn't high enough. Think of them jumping back and forth from the ground to 8 feet up. All day long.
All that said after having a Bengal I want a Savannah or Ocicat as well.