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About the Serengeti

Origin: United States
Serengeti cat
Photo by Shandris at English Wikipedia, Public domain
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Todavía no hay ningún criador en el registro aquí. El club portugués miembro de la FIFe no lista esta raza en su directorio de criadores, así que una ausencia aquí no dice nada sobre si alguien la cría en Portugal.

Typical life span
13-15 years
Size
Medium — from its typical weight
Weight
3.6-6.8 kg
Height
30-38 cm
Registry status
Reconocida por la TICA
Breed group
Short-haired
Origin
United States
Known hereditary risks
None well documented

About

What is a Serengeti?

Medium to large, long-legged spotted cat developed to resemble wild serval without wild genetics.

Serengeti history and origins

Developed in the 1990s by crossing Bengals with Oriental Shorthairs. Goal was to create a cat resembling the African serval using only domestic breeds. TICA registered breed.

Serengeti appearance and size

Typically 3.6-6.8 kg and 30-38 cm at the shoulder — published as one range rather than separately for males and females.

Serengeti temperament and personality

Generally described as confident, friendly, patient, loyal, vocal, alert and active.

That is the breed in general, not a promise about one animal. Ask the breeder what their own line is like, and meet the parents before you decide.

Referencia de la raza de The Cat API.

Pros & cons

Pros y contras de la raza Serengeti

Lo que obtienes con la raza Serengeti

  • Descrito habitualmente como: «Confident, Friendly, Patient, Loyal»

Lo que asumes

Nadie ha escrito todavía este lado. Es un juicio y no datos, así que espera a una persona — no a una fuente que falte.

Extraído de fuentes y no escrito como opinión — investigación de salud citada, el estándar del propio registro, y estudios de longevidad revisados por pares. The Cat API. Los animales de un criador pueden diferir de todo esto, y una columna vacía significa que no tenemos nada de ese lado, no que no haya nada que decir.

Characteristics

Temperamento

ConfidentFriendlyPatientLoyalVocalAlertActive

Información a nivel de raza, de The Cat API. Describe la raza Serengeti en general; cualquier animal concreto puede ser distinto.

Health guide

Health & screening guide for the Serengeti

No hay nada hereditario documentado en la raza Serengeti, pero aun así hay documentación concreta que pedir a cualquier criador antes de pagar una señal. Un criador responsable tiene esta documentación a mano; esquivar la pregunta es mala señal.

No breed-specific hereditary condition is documented for the Serengeti in either DNA-testing-laboratory records or peer-reviewed veterinary literature. The breed does not even appear as a distinct entry in UC Davis VGL's cat breed list, consistent with there being no breed-associated genetic test on record anywhere checked. Serengeti is a young breed (developed from Bengal × Oriental Shorthair from 1994, with no serval ancestry) and has a small population, so the absence of documented risk may partly reflect how little the breed has been formally studied rather than proof that it carries none.

Qué pedir de todos modos

  • Cardiologist echocardiogram on both parents (general HCM screening)
  • PK deficiency and PRA-b DNA tests, as a precaution drawn from the founding Bengal breed rather than a documented Serengeti-specific finding
  • PKD1 DNA test or renal ultrasound
  • FeLV/FIV status of the breeding cats
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Kittens

No kittens listed right now

No Serengeti breeder has a record on this platform yet, so there is nothing to list. That is a gap in our coverage, not a fact about the breed.

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