Hello everybody, it's Brittany at Big Cat
Rescue in Tampa, Florida.
And we are being demanded to come over
and check out a new home tour.
This is going to be with Mouser, the
Savannah Cat.
Mouser, hi.
Do you want to show everybody your home?
So you can see he's quite
small. His nickname is actually "tiny
kitten."
He's a Savannah Cat, so that means he's
been hybridized. He's a hybrid between an
African serval
and a domestic house cat.
He pees on absolutely everything. If this
was a smell-o-vision,
you would get the drift. That litter box
training
a cat that's meant to be in the wild, is
just not practical.
See that he's playing with his
grasses. There's probably a lizard in
there.
So we're just gonna walk his entire
enclosure. I'm gonna pan up and kind of
show you
he's got a very, very tall enclosure here
and he's got a big natural tree
right in the center there. He's got a
nice low platform as well as a nice
tree stump den and it looks like he dug
all of his hay
out of that. Right here
is a safety entrance, so if we ever need
to go in the enclosure, that's the way we
would go.
We would shift him into a different
section and then enter the enclosure for
maintenance or to pull out anything that
we couldn't get from the outside.
We've got two toys there, but I can tell
which one is his favorite,
the larger one.
He rolls that around a lot. So this is
one of his feeding lockouts.
This is where he comes every day for his
meals. He gets multiple meals a day
because he's such a tiny, skinny kitten
and
so he actually eats up to three times a
day here.
He gets fresh water in there. We sanitize
these
plates and fill up their fresh water
every single day
and you'll notice that he has 2x4
wire. So this is a little bit smaller of
a gauged wire. The
holes are a little bit smaller. Are you
not going to walk with us?
He looks very content right there in the
shade.
So this was part of the enclosure
when he first got here to make sure that
he could graduate up to the larger wire.
He was big enough, so there is this
tunnel right here.
There's a door on this side that we can
close and clip
shut and same thing on this side,
so that if we need to shift him to one
side or the other we can do that.
So when you come over here, he's got
another big lockout, a water bowl,
another food plate, some more toys. He has
one of the,
one of the dens that's a little bit
lower in the ground.
He's got a coolaroo bed back there and a
bunch of different toys,
so we'll just walk all the way around
him. Obviously, he is a smaller cat, but
he's quite active.
So we do try to pair up the cats
in different enclosures depending on
their size,
species, activity level, age, any other
kinds of restrictions.
He's got a nice big tall platform
and yet another den. He sits on top of
that den more than he's in it, but he
really likes this platform. I've seen
him on all levels of it.
And then we can come around this way.
There's another safety entrance. So if we
had to enter
this section of the enclosure, we could
again with that double door system. So
this side is locked, the inside is locked.
If we ever go inside,
we lock this first door behind us and
then go in the second one,
of course after the cat's safely away.
Now he does have this big concrete den
as well
and again a lot of natural foliage. He
really likes the grasses.
All of the hybrids do.
So this is kind of a view all the way
down from where we just came from.
He's right along the tour path, across
the street from our 22,000
square foot Funcation enclosure.
If you ever want to look up any of the
cats' stories, see where they came from
and how they came to live at Big Cat
Rescue, you can go to bigcatrescue.org/
catbio. So here he comes now. He can show
you that he can
walk through that little tunnel. You want
to come
say hi?
Hi, buddy,
do you show everybody your home?
We're almost to the end. We have to go
all the way back to where we started.
Loves the grasses. All right, so now we're
just on the opposite side from what
we've already seen. Here's that tunnel he
just walked through,
back around to this first section we
looked at.
He has settled in very nicely. He's one
of the newest rescues, just came to us
last September of 2019.
So I'd say for a hybrid, a Savannah Cat,
he definitely has his own
home, a home worth of
acreage here. Isn't that right, buddy?
Plus he gets to do whatever he wants. He
can claw everything,
pee on everything, chew on everything,
and boy, does he do that. So thank you,
guys, very much for watching.
If you want to learn more about our
enclosures, go to bigcatrescue.org/
cages-EDITED-DAL-DQ