QUOTE(tiesiog3 @ 2009 03 26, 16:47)
[color=purple]Like other types of cats, Savannahs are usually very good
Na nenuostabu, kad veisėjai reklamuodami šias kates daug ką nutyli.. Nes dauguma užsima gryniausia komercija, nes žmonės pamišę dėl laukinės išvaizdos ir leopardinio kailio.
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[B]Savannah Cats - a very bad idea
The Savannah Cat, a cross between a serval and a domestic cat, is the newest pet craze sweeping the nation. Advertised extensively under the heading a leopard for your living room, the cat is marketed as having all the great traits of a domestic cat, and the beautiful markings of a leopard or other wildcat. But cross-breeding a wild cat and a domestic cat is always a bad idea.
The basic problem is that the cross-breed cats are very unpredictable in their behavior - they can be fine, then all of a sudden turn into wild cats hissing, spitting, clawing, and attacking people and other pets. This sounds like normal cat behavior, but in the wildcat it is much worse, and the behaviors are ongoing, not an occasional fit. Some of the hybrids are clearly crazy from the word go, or sometimes, in rare cases, they are fine forever (although almost all of them have bad litterbox habits). Also, there are inevitable health problems, generally in the digestive system and the reproductive system. Male Savannah Cats, for instance, are sterile, so far. This is a problem because that means in every litter, there are kittens that are useless to breeders, and these get sold as pets to unsuspecting people. And, since servals are so much larger than domestic cats, birthing kittens is often difficult and infant mortality is high.
The digestive problems are because domestic cats have evolved a different diet than wild cats. Wild cats are obligate carnivores - they simply cannot get any nutrients from non-meat sources. Domestic cats need less meat and are slightly omnivorous. Not as much as dogs, but they can extract some value from vegetables. This is because they have a longer gut than wildcats relative to their size, which allows them more time to digest and get value from food. So when you hybridize a wild and domestic cat, one of three things will happen. You'll get a cat with a very short gut who has to eat an all-meat diet or it will start throwing up, having liquid stools, and losing weight. You'll get a cat with a longer gut, and it will be able to eat regular cat food. Most likely, you'll get a cat with something in the middle - usually a longer foregut, like a domestic cat, and a shorter hindgut, like a wild cat. These cats can't digest anything easily. They have severe IBS (irritable bowel syndrome), vomiting, uncontrollable diarrhea, gas... they are in constant distress. It's a miserable, miserable life. And since you can't really tell until they are fully weaned, and you have tried various diets and nothing works... by then most likely, if that cat is female and at a breeders, she will have been bred and the problem passed on.
Early generation hybrids are identified by the number of generations they are away from the original cross. So, a cross between a serval and a bengal is an F1 hybrid. The cross between that cat and either a serval or a bengal is an F2 cat. In general, F1 through F5 can be counted on to be a sick, demented, unhappy animal. Bengals have been accepted by some as a true breed, but it is required that they be at least five generations away from a F generation to qualify as a bengal (i.e. it must be a bengal to bengal breeding for five generations back). The problem there is that they begin to lose the spots at about that time. So breeders cross them back to the wildcat to get the pattern back, breed five generations of cats that can't be shown, and then get a show cat generation. And where do we think those five in-between generations go? They go to homes where people are not prepared to deal with the problems that come with a hybrid, and from there they usually go to the shelter to be euthanized.
Its nice to think of having a cat that looks like a leopard or a tiger, but that cant justify the misery associated with breeding these kind of hybrids. While there are some reputable, kind people working on creating them, the inevitable by-product of these efforts are frustrated owners, abandoned cats, and cats living a very poor quality of life. There are many beautiful cats at animal shelters worldwide, perfectly healthy and sweet-tempered, who need a home. I promise you that as soon as you bring him/her home, your rescued cat will be as beautiful, interesting, fun and lovable as any fancy hybrid. And if you are determined to have a unique cat, remember this: all cats are unique in their own way.
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