They should have been in the wild, exploring the world and learning to hunt by their mothers’ sides.
But instead, they were locked inside a man’s upstate New York house, just a few months old and destined to be sold off as pets.
Last week, officials with New York Department of Environmental Conservation and rescuers from World Animal Protection (WAP) seized four servals and two caracals, both wild species native to Africa, from a home in Buffalo. The cats are illegal to keep and sell in New York, but are commonly bred and sold into the pet trade within the United States.