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About the Ashera Cat, it's actually nothing more than a poorly bred Savannah marketed by a hooligan who has moved from state to state as he is caught in his many schemes and rip offs. The first real FICTION is that the Ashera is a breed at all.

FACT; A Savannah is ANY cat that has a Serval ancestor, no ifs, ands, or buts about it. I am a Savannah breeder and am proudly owned by an African Serval. Servals used in American breeding programs are not captured from the wild but bred domestically. Pure bred Servals do not make good housepets as we Americans term housepets. There are licenses to acquire and special habitats to build. Some states outright ban their ownership (thanks to PETA and HSUS). The Savannah was developed for the millions of people like me who dreamed of having a beautiful, exotic cat as part of my family.

FACT; It is incredible rare to find a thirty plus pound Savannah, let's look at it logically. An animal gets half of its genes theoretically from each parent. A male Serval ranges in weight from 36-42 lbs. (18.0 19.1 kilos), as a rule. Most female domestics are well under 15 lbs. (6.84 kilos), more likely 9 - 12 (4.1 5.47 kilos), or less. Using just the unlikely maximums we get 28.5 lbs. (13.0 kilos), for a male hybrid, female Servals are close to 25% smaller than the male and it holds true for the female Savannah. I have bred the incredibly rare HP (high percentage) Savannah that is 75% Serval; using my largest F1 (50%) female and maximum weight on these adult males reported to date is around 28 lbs. (12.8 kilos), some lighter. There are exceptions and possible variances of course but to routinely achieve this massive weight in a hybrid mix as they claim of Serval, Bengal, Geoffrey's Cat (smaller than a Bengal) sounds a little far fetched to me.

FACT; Bio-engineered? FICTION; Bunk, pure and simple, this hooligan and his agents contact Savannah breeders regularly looking for first generation females (50% Serval), for their program, they use many different ruses and guises but seldom trick us into selling our cats to them. There are a couple of large Savannah breeders who like Ashera would sell their cats to Satan if the price was right and this is where Ashera gets their cats from. Are they expecting you to believe that these are test tube created cats with genetically altered eggs or spermatozoa? Are you silly enough to believe it? FACT; they are Savannah cats bred the old fashioned way just using different outcross cats.

FACT; The International

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