Worlds Biggest Cat

by Michael
(UK)

F2 Savannah photo © Kathrin Stucki A1 Savannahs

What is the Worlds biggest cat? - people want to know. You're about to find out.

Domestic cat breed

This is a bit tricky because some pure wild cats are now domesticated. I am thinking of the Serval, a medium small wild cat that can, with great care, be a domestic cat, if tamed and trained properly. If included the Serval wins this poll. But I don't think this is the information people are looking for. The next cat down from a wildcat that is big is an F1 or F2 Savannah. F1 stands for first filial and F2 for second filial. Filial means generation.

The top breeders of the Savannah is A1-Savannahs managed by Kathrin Stucki. The heading picture is one of her F2 Savannahs and it gives a very clear indication of the size of this cat breed. I know you haven't seen a domestic cat that big before. So, I'll get right to the point. The F1-F2 Savannah is the worlds biggest cat (domestic cat that is).

Some say that the Savannah can be found under a different name - the Ashera and/or Ashera GD (hypoallergenic variety). This cat is bred (or other cat breeders bred the cat for them) by Life Style Pets Inc. (Allerca is their trading name).

If you're thinking of the worlds biggest purebred cat, totally domestic cat, the Maine Coon does it across the board. Fantastic cat.

Wild Cat breed

I'll keep this short. The biggest wild cat is the Tiger (weight up to about 675 lbs for males but the heaviest was apparently a cat called Amur weighing 1025 lbs).

Individual cat

Really tricky if you want to really know the truth. Guinness Book of Records doesn't help. The picture below is circulating around the internet so I'll have to presume that it is published under creative commons or by permission. Is it a Photoshop job? Doesn't look like it too me. The other very large cat that you frequently see on the internet (white cat) is a manipulated image.



This ginger cat is a male Maine Coon/Siberian type (probably not purebred). Male Maine Coons can weight as much as 25 lbs and this cat looks about that weight.

You can't include fat cats in this category because that it artificially increasing the weight but not the true size of the cat.

But if you did there are stories of 35-41 lb domestic cats. This is about 5-10 lbs more than the biggest domestic cats of normal weight.

That's it folks..............