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Yes, the serval can have the top bunk

oxdottir says...

A serval is not domesticatable. They are real wild animals, and just like lions and tigers, while they can be very sociable when they are in the right mood, they can hurt you badly. I suspect there are things in the nature channel at least as inappropriate as this totally wild animal that is failing to hurt anyone this minute as it is in a house (I checked and there are zoo animals, and of all things, pigeons in the nature channel--this cat being on a bed is equivalent to a bear being on that bed). Not that I care about the channels you put this video in, but that it seems you are thinking that Serval is a pet. No matter what that woman thinks, it is not a pet. When I went to college there was a guy who brought his "pet" lion to class. Seriously. Equivalent situation.

Servals can behave well for short periods, and on the african continent, keeping an orphaned kitten serval was easy--for a while. A bit like how easy and cute baby racoons are in the US--until they get a bit older and gut your furniture for you. All of the smaller cats can interbreed with domestic cats, and the resulting hybrids have certain personality traits and instincts, and they vary with how sociable they are. Serval hybrids become "diluted" very quickly and are very sociable and box-trainable even at the earliest generation. Other felid hybrids come from Asian Leopard Cats, Margays Jungle Cats, Indian Desert Cats, Geoffroy's Cats, and European WIld cats. All those cats are wild, wild, wild. They can just breed with domestic cats (producing infertile males and fertile females) the same way wolves can breed with dogs.

I have cats that are part-serval, but they are not servals--not at all. My cats are very gentle and behave like domestic cats that got a bit of a brain transplant from a terrier (dog). If I were to have a serval, I would need a license, a cage, and all the other stuff you need for keeping a wild animal of any kind.

Don't let the cuteness of the serval fool you: it's a wild animal. Period.

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