I did some research on them. Pretty amazing. They actually are way more expensive now, depending on where you get them and how far removed they are from the wild cat. They call the half breeds F1 and second generation f2 and so on. F1 are about 8-10,000!!!
They are a bit larger than a normal cat but not much. The angle on the camera made them look way bigger. They get to about 20-30 pounds. But they are long and lean, not fat so they are big. And I guess some can jump upwards of 10 feet straight in the air!! Talk about hops huh?
What I want is a serval cat!! They are about 25 to 50 pounds depending whether male or female and they are the wild part of the savannah cats. Beautiful!! And they really are that big. A full grown one can stand on its hind legs and easily look you in the face. But I guess they are extremely tame and dog-like. Easily trained, they like the water a lot. It's easy to toilet train them supposedly. But they get extremely attached to one owner and they sometimes have a problem spraying everywhere even when they are fixed. A ton of places advocate declawing them completely because of their size. And...you cannot keep them with small children because as they age they can look at a child like prey. They are less expensive than savannahs though. They run about 3500.00. They are unfortunately illegal in a lot of states...