The Merrimack Police Department in New Hampshire is asking for residents to look out for a missing forty pound, four year old African Serval named Spartacus that is a family pet and legally owned and permitted. pic.twitter.com/6Qexuv8cuf
— Only In Boston (@OnlyInBOS) September 11, 2020
Note: The serval has been found.
For more on servals, here's the Wikipedia article. I see: "The association of servals with human beings dates to the time of Ancient Egypt. Servals are depicted as gifts or traded objects from Nubia in Egyptian art. Like many other species of felid, servals are occasionally kept as pets, although their wild nature means that ownership of servals is regulated in most countries."
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Did they find him at Starbucks? Does he prefer dark roast?
Wikipedia article
Wikipedia actually wrote "both genders", which is a "reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones."
I wonder if the New Hampshire cat has a different gender than the cats in Africa.
Probably found him at a Starbucks.
Just not the same until that first cup in the morning.
Making the serval fetch the coffee? RACIST!!!
With coffee a taste of pets and small children???
Hey, it's my home state... where weird is a way of life.
Ha! That’s nothing. Over in Tennessee someone’s pet tiger got out. Glenn Reynolds wrote that if it shows up in his yard it’s gonna get turned into a rug. I like the way he thinks.
Obviously, he got up and decided he wanted a Venti Mocha rather than a regular coffee.
And I promise, I did not read the comments before writing mine!
Live Free or Die, baby.
that Egyptian cat looks constipated.
Reunited with his "Family". Judas Priest. [insert eye roll]. Anyway, we find our 12 lbs. house cat hard enough to handle, there's no way we'd get a 40 lbs cat. Of course, they're not going to attack and eat Adults, but i can see them reverting to their wild nature and lunching on a small child.
Usually people who get wild dangerous animals as pets have a screw loose.
When I first saw the photo, I assumed it was a child dressed up early for Halloween.
Of course the serval fetches the coffee. Why do you think it is called "serve-all"?
Is that thing litter box trained?
When I was a kid in Berwyn, Il, the final straw in our neighbor's growing collection of pets was a lion cub. There was no law against it.
I honestly thought that was a pic of a kid in a catsuit.
A 40 pound cat,if angry, would be a handful and a half.
Did the police walk around asking "Which one of you is Spartacus?" until the serval roared out "I AM SPARTACUS!"?
Did the police walk around asking "Which one of you is Spartacus?"
Cory Booker released unharmed.
Bringing Up Baby is one of my favorite movies
We had one of those running around our neighborhood a few years ago. Found him sitting by the road, scared and lonely, just like a house cat...
Are servals as badly behaved as fictional ocelots, like Baboo on Archer?
I do international wildlife photography and African Serval cats are one of my favorite photography subjects. I didn’t recognize that picture as a serval cat because it was so fat! In the wild they are extremely lithe, slim, and muscular animals that are very stealthy, hiding in tall grass that is about the color of their fur. Like many cats, they hunt in the early morning and late evening hours for rodents and birds. Usually they are very secretive but we were lucky enough to find one once that tolerated us following it at a distance as it hunted the tall grass for voles in the late afternoon. We watched it catch 3. I got so I could tell when it was getting ready to pounce by it’s behavior and have a fabulous picture of it in the air in mid pounce. I can’t imagine one being cooped up in a house because they are so active and wide ranging.
Up here on the Gulch Road weedahaddus some Cerval tacos fer shure!
I'm not sure what made me click through to the Twitter site. Ugh. What a cesspool. I need a shower.
oh sure-- waiting on that purrr-fect cup o' Joe
...should have had a "serval-ity bullshit" tag.
I used to have a screen saver image of a serval. The pic made it appear to be slightly larger than a housecat, but leaner with larger teeth. But 40 pounds?!?
I thought costumed kid too.
Narr
That's an ocelot of spots
I was expecting Laza tiger
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