Savannah Kitten Breed

Breeder Judee Frank has crossbreed a Serval and domestic cat, producing the first Savannah (named Savannah) on April 7, 1986. Judee Frank’s Savannah attracted the interest of Patrick Kelley, who had been interested in exotic looking domestic cats for many years and purchased one of Savannah's kittens in 1989. Kelley’s vision for creating a new domestic breed based on the Serval / domestic Cat cross prompted him to research what would be needed to be accepted by an official registry. With that information, obtained from Leslie Bowners at TICA, Patrick approached breeders of Servals and encouraged them to attempt the development of this new breed. Initially, no breeders were interested. However Patrick persisted and finally convinced one breeder, Joyce Sroufe, to join him in founding the Savannah breed.

Body has a full deep rib cage and a slight but not extreme tuck-up and a rounded rump. Hip and thigh are full and long, somewhat heavy in proportion to the rest of the body.

Head a equilateral triangular shape, ears extremely large, deep base with rounded tops, set close to the top of the head.

Eyes medium sized, set underneath a slightly hooded brow, bottom half of eye an almond shape.

Coat is short to medium in length with good substance and a slightly coarse feel to it.

Black, brown, black smoke and silvers. Under belly preferred white with spotting. All must be solid spotted.