Overview

• Authorities have received multiple eyewitness reports of an exotic feline near the town of Schwaan in Rostock district.
• The Landesamt für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Geologie (LUNG) is planning to capture the animal using a live trap.
• Initial analysis suggests the cat could be a purebred Serval or a hybrid Savannah cat based on photographic evidence.
• Servals are granted strict protection under CITES and the German Federal Nature Conservation Act, and Savannah cats are considered less hazardous to humans.
• Officials have ruled out an escape from a local enclosure, leaving the animal’s origin unknown.