"Is my cat illegal? This very willing participant in this video is Azzy. The thing about Azzy is that he's a savanna cat, which means that he's part wild serval and part domestic cat, probably a Siamese. I don't know for sure because I adopted him. On May 1st, BC updated its controlled alien species legislation, which restricts the ownership of wild exotic cats like servals, caracals, and ocelots. But also, it restricts the hybrids that are crossed between those species and domestic cats. So when BC changed its legislation on May 1st, I had a question. What does that mean for cats like mine? And that's when I met Gary. Gary is a rescued serval cat. He even sat on my lap. The more reporting I did, the more complicated the story became. If they wanna give them up, there's actually very few places for that cat to go. And none of those places are in BC. In fact, there's nowhere you can surrender a serval officially to an animal rescue or a zoo in Canada at all. Another challenge, nobody knows how many of these servals are actually living in BC. They've always been unregulated and many people who own them are understandably pretty secretive. We usually only hear about them when one escapes and makes headlines. So are these regulations enough to solve the problem? And what responsibility do we have to the animals that are already here? That's what my latest story explores. Read it at thenarwal.ca."