White Serval Photos
These are not albinos as they have pale blue to green eyes and some golden patches. They are born and mature approximately 20% larger than the normal colored Servals. For the first year, their health is much more delicate and we have never known of White Serval females to survive more than two weeks. We will not breed, sell nor allow others to breed to our White Servals because we do not want them to be exploited and the only way we can control that is to control their offspring. The demand for White Tigers causes many of the normal colored cubs, born to these litters, to be destroyed. We will not be a part of anything that could cause the same to happen to golden colored Servals.
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As you can see from the sequence above, Servals can easily leap 10 to 12 feet into a tree.
Big Cat Rescue 's Family of White & White Footed Servals
NOTE: The two White Servals shown below are world renowned for their unusual platinum color.
There
are only two WHITE SERVALS in the World and both of them
live at Big Cat Rescue!
Pharaoh
Male White Serval. One of only two White Servals in the world!
Date of Birth: 4/22/99
Pharaoh was spontaneously born into the pet
trade. Pharaoh has turned out to be just as light in color as Tonga, although Pharaoh has two unusual dark yellow spots and one black spot on his shoulder and his hind leg. He is not an albino, his white coloring is simply a mutation. Pharaoh is very timid and only likes a very few people. He is however always curious of passerby's. There
was a time when we believed that breeding exotic cats would save them from
extinction and while that may be true we later concluded that it was not
our right to impose captivity upon another creature to ensure that it would
be here for the benefit of man. We ceased intentional breeding of all
of our cats in 1997 and have long since managed to spay, neuter or separate
all of our animals to prevent any accidental births.
Tonga
Date of Birth: 5/21/97
Male White Serval. One of only two White Servals in the World!
Date of Birth: 5/21/97
Tonga was born into the pet trade. Tonga barely had any spots at all. Now as adult, the spots that Tonga does have are silvery gray. Tonga is also a shy cat that likes to keep to himself, except at feeding time, when he magically turns into your best friend in the whole world. When he stretches, the whole cat won't fit in the picture! When we first began we only had the guidance of those who bred and sold cats and believed that what they said was true. We started breeding some cats under the misguided notion that this was a way to “preserve the species.” We had not then figured out what seems so obvious to us today, that breeding for life in a cage an animal that was meant to roam free was inherently cruel. Our males have since been neutered to insure no accidental births.
Male White-Footed Serval
Date of Birth: 1/1/95
The word Serval means Wolf Deer so it is no coincidence that Frosty would speak to you of Wolf medicine. Wolf is the pathfinder, the forerunner and the teacher. The gift of Wisdom comes to you when you have walked enough paths and found enough dead ends to truly know the forest. Frosty urges you to seek out the teachers or pathfinders who will show you the way to new life experiences. He asks that you remember that the teacher may be a person, a cat, a cloud, a book or the Great Spirit embodied in any and all of these. To live is to grow and growing comes from accepting all life forms as teachers. Become Wolf and sniff out the adventure of living every moment in awe inspired learning.
Below are more White Serval Photos. Both are at Big Cat Rescue.
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Due to the vast number of unwanted exotic cats, we do not breed any of our animals. Many people claim to be breeding white tigers, or other types of wild cats for conservation, but the fact is that white tigers, white lions and white servals would never survive in the wild.
The only cats that are truly part of a conservation effort are registered with ISIS (as ours are) and are part of the organized Species Survival Plan (SSP). Anyone else who is breeding them is doing so for financial gain, to fuel the pet trade, or for their own egos but not for the survival of the cat in any meaningful way. Even though our cats are registered and some are even from the SSPs we do not believe in breeding animals for lives of confinement.
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