Exotic Big Cats for Sale
Why pussyfoot around it — this is one giant house cat.
The Ashera, a 4-foot-tall cross between the African Surval and Asian Leopard cats (with a healthy dose of domestic house cat mixed in), is the latest in exotic big cats for sale, which are making the public purr.
This hybrid kitty is the “largest, rarest and most exotic” domestic cat in the world, according to British businessman Simon Brodie (you may remember him from such projects as the hypoallergenic cat).
Brodie and his lab full of geneticists developed the Ashera, which now sells for $22,000 — and there’s a year-long waiting list to buy one! (Some other cat breeders are hissing that this “new” cat is nothing more than the Savannah breed.)
The Ashera exotic big cats for sale, which can live as long as 25 years, are shaped much like your average housecat, but these are much bigger and have the markings of their wild relatives.
Ryan Oylear, a handler for Lifestyles Pets, which boasts the hybrid exotic big cats for sale, told reporters, “They’re definitely above domestic cats in that they are much larger and possess much higher energy; they like to be up high. You could say that for most cats, but these guys prefer it that way.”
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So, in other words, be prepared to be stalked from atop your bookshelves by a 4-foot-tall cat. If you’re into that sort of thing.
And in case things get, you know, out of hand with your exotic big cat (“It may become a little too hyper,” a Lifestyles Pets spokesman conceded), the 20G price tag includes a decade’s worth of visits with an animal behaviorist.
Ashera owner Jo Cachia told reporters, “We’re hoping that he is socialized enough with our playfulness and our kids playing with him, but hopefully he doesn’t get too wild.” Sure, sure, good luck with that.
