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He has only a teddy

Bed time ...  Good night all.

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Putting the cats to sleep needs some patience

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This king size tail to play with must be every kitten' s

dream, but taking such a huge bite might not be the

best game to play. click on the photo to enlarge -

that is a mouth full of teeth ready for the plunge.

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 I'm thirsty !

 

Answer to questions asked:- Is this endangered cat dangerous.

The cheetah is a softy. It is build for speed and not for fighting. In Namibia, when a cheetah hunts on a farm the farmers trap them. The cheetah will pretend to be aggressive but the farmer just gives him a slap in the face and the cheetah behaves. The trapped cheetahs are never killed and always turned over to nature conservation who release them away from the farms.

However I agree that the cheetah can kill the cat with one bite, but so can the dogs. Besides the cheetah is too finicky what it bites to bite a cat (eeeyuk peleeeze).

South Africa and Namibia are very strict about keeping wild animals. I was so annoyed in Namibia, the people eat the hedgehog, but we are not allowed to keep one as a pet. Very few hedgehogs left in nature there.

 The fact remains that the cheetah is unfortunately on it's last leg in nature. That is why in South Africa, any kittens found where the mother died, are raised and given out to nature reserves.
 

It is a challenge to save them as the problem is not only due to habitat shrinking.  They are fragile in the make-up of their genes and started going downhill more than a century ago.   But who knows, it might just be that in modern times the weak spots could be ironed out.

 

 

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