Our vets recommend adopting a regular moggy as they are much easier to accommodate and make really great family pets. they have a wild parent), they still require a lot more care and attention to meet their needs than normal pet cats. Though Bengals are fairly common and therefore less likely to be close to a ‘true F1’ (i.e. These animals don’t make great pets due to their complex needs. Bengal (F1 domestic cat x Asian Leopard cat, although most available now are many generations from a wild ancestor).There are a few breeds of exotic hybrid cats you may see available in the UK. There is also the question of whether keeping a part-wild animal as a pet is the right thing to do, as they are less used to living among humans and may be much less comfortable in a home environment than a normal pet. You may find that you have to make costly changes to your house to accommodate a wild hybrid and make changes to your lifestyle. If you’re thinking of getting a wild hybrid, you’ll need to thoroughly research their needs and seriously consider whether you can accommodate them or whether you would be better off with a domestic pet. They often need to spend much more time outside being active (which isn’t always possible for owners). They’re likely to have much stronger hunting instincts and don’t always settle well into family life. However, they come with a lot of extra responsibility as they have complicated welfare needs compared to domestic pets and even several generations removed can be very different from a normal pet of that type.īecause of their wild parent, these hybrid breeds won’t have the same temperament as a domestic cat or dog. The higher the ‘F’ number, the further back the wild ancestor was, so the more diluted the wild genetics are.Įxotic hybrid breeds tend to be much larger than domestic pets and they look a lot more like their wild parents (which is one reason why people like them so much). Where this has been done, you will often see them called ‘F1’s, meaning they have a ‘wild’ parent and are ‘first generation’. This means that an exotic hybrid has a direct genetic link to a wild animal and usually doesn’t behave quite like a normal pet. Wild hybrids may appeal to a lot of people as they look a certain way, but they’re very expensive and unprepared owners may find they’ve bitten off more than they can chew! Our vets don’t recommend owning a wild hybrid as they come with complex additional needs compared to a normal domestic pet that we as owners simply cannot meet.Įxotic hybrid breeds are the breeds created when a domestic pet is bred with a closely-related wild animal species. When we say ‘hybrid breeds’, you might think of mixed breeds such as Cockapoos or Labradoodles, but we’re talking about exotic hybrids, where a wild species is mixed with a domestic one, like Wolfdogs or Savannah cats.
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