F1 Savannah Cat Magic Wakes Up Andreas

Well, here is another video of Andreas and Magic together. This time Magic wakes up Andreas. The thing is, Andreas is sleeping on the top bunk of bunk beds. So what happens is a WOW. Well it's a totally normal for Magic as she is the world's tallest domestic cat (I think the Guinness World Records call the record Tallest Pet Cat). And she is extremely athletic and a great jumper because her father is a Serval. And the serval cat is a medium sized wild cat with very long legs. The serval kills prey by jumping high and down onto the prey to stun it and kill it.



Enjoy the video, MAGIC and Andreas are fantastic in this. This is a beautiful relationship. Please see it in large format here: Waking Andreas Magically.

Savannah Cat Magic with Andreas and Leonie

Here are two videos I made of F1 Savannah cat Magic with Andreas and Leonie. Andreas and Leonie are the son and daughter of Martin and Kathrin Stucki who own and manage A1 Savannahs and who raised Magic. That is why she is so beautifully socialised and domesticated:





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Tortoiseshell Cats Video

Here is a Tortoiseshell Cats Video that I think I need to spread around a bit. It is one I made some time ago but I think it is really good because the photos are by the very talented and respected Helmi Flick. The best cat photographer in the world - oh yes it's true.



I think the music goes well with the cats and I don't know why. It just feels right for some reason. There are quite a range of tortie cats (it's much easier to type "tortie" than the full word!).

If you take into consideration the tortie pointed cats the range is vast. You can see a torbie pointed Persian in the video. You can read about and see torbie, tortie and torbie/tortie and white cats here:

• Torbie/Tortie and White cats
• Torbie cats
• Tortoiseshell cats

F1 Savannah Cat TITAN

I also can't resist showing a video of an F1 male named TITAN. He is going shopping with his human companion. And as can only be expected most of shop comes to a stand still. Well not quite but walking a fantastic cat like this on a lead in a store is pretty well bound to make other shoppers stop and ask and talk.



TITAN, then, is a great way to meet people. Probably the best way! And I think that for a cat like TITAN (who is still growing by the way) it is a perfect way to both satisfy his need to be stimulated and to do it in a safe way.

It seems to be winning way all round. You can see lots more videos of cats on my YouTube channel: Broadsurf. Also see Savannah cats generally.

A1 Savannahs F1 Savannah Cat MAGIC

A1 Savannahs F1 Savannah Cat MAGIC - this is the cat everyone is or should be talking about! I mean when did you see a domestic cat like this? This cat is probably the biggest and most glamorous domestic cat anywhere. MAGIC is magic and a female Savannah cat who has a Serval for a father and a Savannah cat for a mother. She is 2 years old at the time the video was made (early Sept 2009) and is spayed. You can see the video in large format here: F1 Savannah Cat Magic.



Not only is she glamorous she is very exotic, a heady combination of wildcat, domestic cat, wild spirit, passiveness, gentleness, energy, and perfect socialization. Look how she accepts all the handling by Kathrin Stucki's young daughter. MAGIC now resides at Bellina Gattini Cattery which is owned by Kimberly and Lee Draper.

I can't help making posts about this cat. She is certainly the most impressive domestic cat I have seen except for Motzie of course. You can see Motzie an F2 Savannah cat of great fame at the top of this page: Savannah Cat, and on this page: MOTZIE

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Analysis of the Big Cat Video UK

It has been claimed to be "one of the best pieces of footage of a big cat in the UK". This is my brief analysis of the big cat video UK.



First it has to said that this is simply not a big cat. If it is a wild cat it would be classed as one of the small wild cats (see Wild Cat Species). It is about 2 feet long (excluding the tail) and looks like it weighs about 20+ pounds. This is gauged by comparison with the tracks (apparently 4 feet 8.5 inches wide in Britain). This cat walks like a small cat or domestic cat meaning lightly and without that slightly arrogant and slower paced walk of the bigger cats. Its shape is neither cobby (stocky) nor slender. The smaller big cats like the puma and leopard are quite slender with long limbs. This cat cannot be either. It cannot be a lynx because there is no ruff.

This cat has been described as "fearsome" and a "panther" by the tabloid press. Well it is not fearsome it seems to me. And it is not a panther as this is a term to describe melanistic (black) leopards and pumas. The smallest leopard weighs about 20 kg (44 lbs pounds - small female Cap Province -- Wild Cats of the World) and are normally about 50 kg (110 lbs the size of female person). The puma is quite a large cat with some small cat characteristics and weights at the lower end about the same as a small women. Both are larger by a factor of about 4 or 5 than this cat.

Domestic cats can weigh on average about 8 lbs but some weigh over 20 lbs. The all domestic cat, the Maine Coon can and frequently does weigh over 20 lbs. But this cat is not a Maine Coon as the fur is short on this cat and the Maine Coon is longer bodied.

It is more likely to be a large (top end) domestic cat than a wildcat. And this cat is behaving like a domestic cat wandering down a railway line. This cat is not behaving secretively as a wild cat would. It is very hard indeed to see a Scottish wild cat. It takes a lot of tracking and patience.

One viewer of the video made the comment that it could be a domestic cat/Scottish wild cat hybrid (first generation). This could be the case. They are black apparently and although the Scottish wild cat is the approximate size of a domestic cat with hybrid vigor the offspring could be larger than the parents.

I think it is also worth mentioning that this cat is not very elusive, is it? It is calmly walking down a railway line in broad daylight when it could be hold up in a den and coming out at night as black panthers are meant to do. And why is this oh so fantastic video footage, some of the best ever pretty poor, frankly. Over all the tens of years we have been told about fearsome big cats in the UK the best evidence we have is this poor camera phone video of a 20 lb domestic cat!

Analysis of the Big Cat Video UK - conclusion: Can the papers please stop exaggerating as this is irresponsible and puts fear into some people who might react badly to the cat and try and kill it? Being at the very top end of the domestic cat range it is more likely to be a very large domestic cat or a Scottish wild cat first generation hybrid and it is certainly not a black panther.

More reading:

• World Biggest Cat
• Maine Coon Cats
• Largest Domestic Cat Breed
• Puma
• Scottish Wild Cat

When a Stray Cat Comes to You

What to do when a stray cat comes up to your home? Or there is a cat wandering around in your area and you feel that it is stray. A lot of people take what only can be described as hostile action, against the cat, for example, kill it by poison or kick it etc. (see cat poison). In fact there is a post on this blog made a day or two ago in which the person said she loved cats but puts down poison to deal with stray cats! See Stray Cats.


I have lost the credit for this photo. I think it could be MAR please advise - sorry

But the question is what is the thing that we should do? The proper thing throwing out all other considerations? If the cat is tame it is probably a stray cat as opposed to a feral cat. And in that case it probably lives with someone - but who? And if you can't find out, then what?

One way to find out is to ask around the neighbours. This might seem troublesome to many people who don't care about cats or animals generally. Fair enough but it is the right action to take. Another way to try and find the owner is to place a collar on the cat in which the question as to who is the owner is asked with your contact details provided. You can see an example here.

If the owner (keeper) comes forward you should try and convince them to act more responsibly and I realize that that is going to be all but impossible but at least you know who the person is and can deal with the matter in a better way if things get worse.

Another way to try and find the owner is to contact the local shelters (in the UK - here is a list). Once all reasonable steps have been taken (and ideally recorded) but without success, you can move on to the next stage, which is to rehome the cat. That means deciding whether ownership should pass to you (a very serious commitment for the remainder of the life of the cat) or whether the cat should be rehomed by a local shelter.

Provided you have done all you reasonably could have done to find the owner no one can accuse you of theft. If the cat is feral and therefore wild there can only be one course of action, which is to support the cat (which is effectively wild), while ensuring the cat cannot reproduce. This is called trap, neuter, return and it is probably best left to the experts, provided the experts are simply just not going to kill it after a couple of days at the shelter.

When a stray cat comes to you, you should take the above action provided you are convinced the cat is stray. What I did was to take in the stray cat. He is called Timmy (middle picture above) and he is possibly a time share cat because he lives somewhere else as well as at my place. I took the hardest step and that has to be for life.

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