Serval Cat Rescue (TSCAER)

TSCAER is a Serval Cat rescue and was formed exclusively for the protection of the African Serval Cat. The name of my organization is “The Serval Conservation and Education Refuge. Founded and directed by Scott and MeChel Whitaker.

We will provide a safe and healthy environment for all rehomed serval cats. We are committed to educating the public about serval cats in order to eliminate the attitude and bias that servals are dangerous and need to be banned.
Specifically, “The Serval Conservation and education refuge” takes in rehomed and rescued serval cats. Some are rehomed to other animal education centers, zoos, private experienced caretakers, and some are kept at our refuge for educational purposes, breeding observation and rehabilitation. I plan to educate the public about the serval cat by using social media, books, and husbandry courses free of charge. I use all funds from fundraisers, serval adoptions and book sales to help cover costs of all my servals needs, including food, enclosure maintenance, vet care and transportation. I am the founder and administrator of a Serval Facebook group called the “Serval cat lover, Educational, and rescue group,” at www.facebook.com/groups/serval The purpose of the group is to educate people about serval cats and to answer any questions about serval cat husbandry, diet, health and housing. The members of the group include serval owners, exotic animal caregivers, exotic vets, zookeepers, conservation group members, sanctuary owners and members, African refuge administrators and a thousand more influential and educated exotic animal caretakers.
The Serval Conservation and education refuge’s purpose is to protect and offer homes to all serval cats that are misplaced or rehomed due to new bans or ownership difficulties. There are thousands of serval cats in the US alone and because of the lack of knowledge about the serval, laws are being written to ban servals. My goal is to educate as many people as I can about servals in order to make state legislators realize that servals are not dangerous and do not deserve to be lumped in with big cats like lions and tigers. They do this because they have no idea what a serval is. There is not a big problem yet but if something is not done about educating legislators and stopping the bans then we will have over 25,000 servals needing homes.