'There are plenty of good exotic-animal accounts on Instagram, yet there’s something about these serval-owning Russian women that I find particularly evocative.'
Photo: @serval_shanti/Instagram As a dutiful adherent of ‘Adopt, don’t shop’, I always assumed that when I eventually did get a cat, it would be a scraggly rescue with one eye or perhaps a handful of kittens found in a dumpster. Then I started following members of the Russian serval-owner community on Instagram.
I currently follow four Russian serval accounts: Serval Chester, Serval Lexus, Serval Leya and Serval Shanti. They each have about the same number of followers as a moderately successful New York media person, which is shocking, given the elite and high-quality content they produce. All the accounts seem to follow one another, and I like to think of them as a little chosen family, bonding over their shared love of exotic cats in the cold Russian winters.
Shanti has three pets: a serval, a regular cat, and a snake, and she often lets them play together. They even made it on to on a Russian TV show for a segment on their unlikely friendship. Sometimes she holds the two cats up to compare how long they are — a fun exercise, because according to Google, the serval has the longest legs of any cat relative to its body size.
When they aren’t making videos at home, Shanti the cat and Shanti the woman take lots of photos together in various landscapes around the Moscow region, such as a sandy beach, a forest, and a river. I appreciate that I am learning about Russian geography while also getting to look at photos of this very nice and rare cat. Woman-Shanti often dresses up for their photo shoots in chunky heels or an elegant fur hood, and together they make an extremely photogenic duo.
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