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This week’s edition of “Cats inappropriate to be pets” is brought to us by way of Scotland: Macchuie: The Scottish Serval Cat

Here’s his story, courtesy the Popbitch Newsletter:

This week’s big cat is Macchuie, the hand-reared
Serval. Growing up in Aberdeen alongside several
Bengals raised from the stock of Popbitch’s
favourite cat breeder, Lord Esmond Gay.

And what of his near-namesake Servalan, aka
Jacqueline Pearce from Blake’s Seven? She’s moved
to South Africa after having her “heart and
spirit captured” by Felix, an orphaned Vervet
monkey. “There is something about Felix. She
makes me laugh just thinking about her. Her
tenacity in the pursuit of what she wants;
she’s the smallest of the babies, but so large
in personality, so huge in spirit and courage
that she dominates, rivets the attention,
shines like the star she is. And she is the only
creature on the planet to have inserted a tongue
into my right nostril. Trust me, that is some
bonding experience.”