New breed of cat retails for $22,000Looks gorgeous and the website says that they are fully socialized and like to be on a leash but still... Posted by DaveH at May 31, 2007 11:00 AM
From the we're-not-making-this-up department comes news that a company called Lifestyle Pets has introduced the Ashera, a new breed of cat that retails for $22,000. Sunroof extra.
Billed as the world's "largest, rarest and most exotic domestic cat," the Ashera is the size of a small dog -- and we're not talking Paris Hilton-style pooch. Top weight is about 30 pounds.
Developed by crossing two exotic feline bloodlines -- the African serval and the Asian leopard cat -- with a regular old domestic cat, the Ashera has leopardlike spots and contrasting tiger stripes and a smile that will scare the mailman. We kid. The news release says Asheras are intelligent, great with kids and OK with being walked on a leash. If this is the pet of your dreams, visit lifestylepets.com and start stocking up on fresh meat.
It's a Savannah, and they think they can get people to pay that for it by writing fancy things about it on their web page. I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't just buy them from a breeder, rather than breed them themselves. You wouldn't be able to detect the fraud by examining the breed registry, because the "Asheera" isn't on any breed registry. You'd have to look at the Savannah breed registry for the date of birth of your kitten and figure out that it was your kitten in the book, and if you were smart enough to do that, you wouldn't by the "Asheera" in the first place"
Posted by: Mike Toreno at June 11, 2007 5:31 PM