A Little Bit of Africa in Atlanta, Or, You Brought WHAT Home?

This is a rather weird story that took place in my hometown just this morning. Fulton County Animal Control responded to a call about a wildcat in a neighborhood near Georgia Tech. The cat was hard to catch, but when they caught it, no one knew what the heck it was. Here's the cat in the Fulton County Animal Shelter later in the day:

For those of us who aren't experts on African cats, aside from lions and cheetahs and the like, this is a serval. Servals don't normally roam the streets of Atlanta; most live in Africa, especially in subsaharan Africa, on the savannas. No one knows yet how on earth this cat got to the Peach State, but whoever brought this little kitty here will probably face charges.

Here's the story on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution website.