Stavanger Savannah
Savannah Child
Do Savannahs have somewhat poor balance and coordination in general as a breed?The reason I ask is that while our little kitten (7 month old F7) is a good hunter when we play with her, she's got the worst balance I've ever seen in a cat, and has since we brought her home for Christmas. 
I was thinking that she would grow out of it, but it hasn't gotten any better or worse. It seems especially difficult for her to place her rear legs on things like window sills, counters, couch backs, etc. She's fallen several times off of what should be easy spots for most cats. She runs straight into her scratching post on occasion, once I saw her try to jump into her "house" in the scratching post and she missed, hit the side of it instead, which seems bizzare to me. She's also run into walls now and again.
Other owners tell stories about Savannahs balancing on the top of shower stalls (a narrow metal strip), narrow ledges and performing all sorts of death defying balancing stunts, even as kittens. Maybe that's only the early generations?
Just wondering out loud if this is typical of the breed. Sometimes it's hard not to laugh at her because she seems so clumsy, atypically so for a cat. Othertimes it's downright dangerous as she's beginning to choose higher and higher perches in the house, and fell off of one the other day by accident. Luckily my son was there and caught her (a 2m drop!).
Other than that she seems wonderful, active, playful, cuddly and very social, just that sometimes I wonder if she's missing some cat genes or something because she's so clumsy!
I was thinking that she would grow out of it, but it hasn't gotten any better or worse. It seems especially difficult for her to place her rear legs on things like window sills, counters, couch backs, etc. She's fallen several times off of what should be easy spots for most cats. She runs straight into her scratching post on occasion, once I saw her try to jump into her "house" in the scratching post and she missed, hit the side of it instead, which seems bizzare to me. She's also run into walls now and again.
Other owners tell stories about Savannahs balancing on the top of shower stalls (a narrow metal strip), narrow ledges and performing all sorts of death defying balancing stunts, even as kittens. Maybe that's only the early generations?
Just wondering out loud if this is typical of the breed. Sometimes it's hard not to laugh at her because she seems so clumsy, atypically so for a cat. Othertimes it's downright dangerous as she's beginning to choose higher and higher perches in the house, and fell off of one the other day by accident. Luckily my son was there and caught her (a 2m drop!).
Other than that she seems wonderful, active, playful, cuddly and very social, just that sometimes I wonder if she's missing some cat genes or something because she's so clumsy!