Posted on 07/04/2016 12:34:43 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister
This adorable footage shows the moment a wildlife volunteer is reunited with a cheetah he helped care for a year ago.
When he was volunteering at Cheetah Experience in South Africa, Dolph Volker bonded with 10-month-old cheetah cub Gabriel. He spent a lot of time with the cub, feeding him, playing and cuddling him.
When he returned to the sanctuary, Mr Volker was reunited with the big cat, and their embrace is adorable.
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Interesting that the cheetah remembered him.
If this is the same place, I went on a “Cheetah Walk” with my daughters there four years ago today! It was the Fourth of July, and an interesting way to celebrate the holiday while we were vacationing in South Africa. We got to pet the cheetah and walk the fields with him. He purred the entire time. It’s what they do! What a memorable experience!
he smeared anchovy past all over himself
nice nice nice Kitty!
My brother and sister-in-law got to frisk with cheetahs when they were in South Africa a couple of years ago. I wonder if it’s the same place.
Even a house cat can injure you just playing around. And then of course there are moments when you’re playing around with a cat and you do one thing that they don’t like and the next thing you know you’re getting bitten hard.
That was cute adorable footage but there is no way h e double hockey sticks I would do that with a jaguar. I don’t care how much the cat loved me.
There’s always a buzzkill in the room. Lighten up, Grandma.
Jaguar. Cheetah. Different.
Yeah it is.
With their odd genetics, there is very little genetic diversity in the species, and their ease of taming I have often wondered if they were not specially bred as pets by some long gone civilization who then managed to survive in the wild after that civilization fell.
Yes’m Auntie Maim!
Cheetahs don't attack humans unless they are rabid or they feel you have threatened them or their cubs.
Now Jaguar, Leopard or Lion are all different cases.
But there are civilizations who have vanished from the pages of history so, why not?
I know that several civilizations hunted with cheetahs but they did not seem to breed them but capture cubs from the wild.
They show all the signs of coming from a careful breeding program.
I think cheetahs might attack children but they definitely know their place in the predator hierarchy and do not ‘bite off more than they can chew.’
Big Kitty ping
LOL, should we call you a bigot for mixing your big cats?
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