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My neighbor looked into a serval here and found that they are against the law to own in most of Washington state unless you have a certain kind of license (same goes with most non-domestic animals). Recently two 'pet' servals got loose somehow from their home and now they're stuck at the zoo, sequestered away from the other 'more feral' cats. The zoo doesn't know what they are going to do with them. If the owner is found, he'll be find and possibly jailed.
It goes for most other animals too.. I'm not picking on servals mind you. I own pixie bobs which are part (very dilute) bobcat. The exotic animal trade is much the way the old exotic bird trade used to be. People would buy new to the country just caught exotic birds (Macaws, Parrots, etc). I've seen documentaries and read articles about how these birds are lured in mass, captured and transported. How many of them died in the process.. all in the name of the almighty $. The US finally made their import illegal. It cut alot of the market in a hurry. Never by any sort of exotic animal unless you have some facts on the seller and the history of the animal.
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