The Savannah Shameful Secret

[Samber]

Wow I've never heard of this before. Both my Bengals do not have this. odd that i never read this before even after all the research I've done...

 

[DChap]

Tojo has the pouch. When he was a small kitten and I was at a cat show an Egyptian Mau breeder mentioned the pouch to me as a EM trait. So much later when I noticed Tojos I looked on his papers and saw that he had EM in his heritage so I assumed it was from that. So interesting.

 

[NikkiA]

Both of our boys have it. It is really funny because they are so fit and lean and then have these "beer bellies" when you look at them when they are sitting.

 

[xumi's mom]

Xumi's got "the pouch".

 

[MorganDax]

My F6 girl just recently started to show a pouch, and she's a month or two shy of her 2nd birthday.

I thought it was from being spayed, but after some research online I've discovered that many cats have it. Fascinating!

 

[Carykd7kau]

It's called a Primordial pouch. It is thought to be a place for storage of fat for lean times.. Not all cats have them. noit even all Savannahs. I have a girl that has a pretty noticable one. another has none. and My boy has a barely noticable one.

 

[Kristin]

Jimmy doesn't have one but Zeddie has a big one I love it...she gets so mad when I squeeze it

 

[Rafiki]

Rafiki now has one. She was so sick and scrawny last year that I welcome it! Of course Jammu's puts hers to shame. There is nothing quite like the pouch a Pixiebob can sprout!