Cat House!

[furtech]

I recently had the opportunity to visit the home a someone who owns exotic cats. His home is an Animal Planet and cat lover's dream. Nestled in a green valley near Palo Alto, the home is immaculate and located in a hilly area that has a number of hiking trails running throughout.

I was there to get some reference pictures and he was kind enough to let me post those pictures to my Flickr account. He has a servil named Jabari and a desert cat of some kind, a third wild cat species that I can't remember either and one very friendly, boneless domestic cat. Kind of cool to see these big cats (well, little big cats) wandering around the home.

If you need reference pics of servils or desert cats, feel free to check 'em out!

Here is a collage of his servil, Jabari:



Jabari was amazing. He's like a miniature Cheetah in so many ways.

Here is a ser of pics of another of his exotics, the species of which I forget. Once she got used to you, she was a total pest very accommodating. The collars they are wearing are radio tracking devices: interesting how small they've become with all the new technologies.



Here is the whole Flickr set!

Comments

[revengetherapy.livejournal.com]

oh god, servals are GORGEOUS. and i think i've seen that second one before but i can't remember what they're called either /: beautiful, though!

[sailortweek.livejournal.com]

WOW! Amazing cats! What a neat chance to see this babies up close and personal ^_^

[tcreynolds]

SERVAL MEATLOOOOOOOOAF

[hbruton.livejournal.com]

Wow I'm so envious!

[mognetcentral.livejournal.com]

Wow, how cool! I was recently wondering what went into getting an exotic pet license thanks to this video.

Jabari has such a regal but sweet demeanor in the photos you took. :)

[oats-a-plenty.livejournal.com]

I'm interested in interviewing this person for my exotic animal article, could you perhaps get me their contact information? It would be refreshing to do besides reptiles and spiders.

[millencolinf0x.livejournal.com]

Boneless?

[laragoth.livejournal.com]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10364044@N00/4543865580/in/set-72157623910600720/

I saw this and the caption that I thought of was "OMG I NEED AN ADULT!!!"

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

I wanna see!

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

I love the intense look on this http://www.flickr.com/photos/10364044@N00/4543865742/sizes/o/in/set-72157623910600720/ one... :}

[fenris-lorsrai.livejournal.com]

There's a fellow near the school athletic fields that owns servals. One gave him the slip at one point and got loose. It went out and bounced around the unmowed edge of the soccer field, pouncing stuff while a local cop stood there and watched it and kept kids away from it. The owner got fined for a loose animal, but managed to catch the serval and go home.

Our cops here standardly opt for "stand around and direct people away from the animal" with animals that aren't being threatening but also are somewhere they could potentially be dangerous and are in danger themselves. Probably the scariest thing I've seen them doing the Wildlife Bodyguard bit for was a snapping turtle that had a shell the size of the manhole cover. It was crawling across a busy street, so the cop had to direct traffic around it (It was a couple hundred pounds) while making sure not to get so close he lost a limb. That was a BIG turtle.