Dolph C. Volker | Gabriel The Cheetah Sedation Day | Big Cat Goes To The Vet For Close-Up Examination By Doctor Part 1 @CheetahWhisperer | Uploaded August 2020 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
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I follow every step of Gabriel The Cheetahs sedation check-up and examination plus sample taking. It was an VERY thorough examination and was impressed by Dr. Sandra Bertrams knowledge of cheetahs and direction of the exam. She has a practice in Bloemfontein South Africa and allowed me to film the process from start to finish. Much earned praise from me.
Captive cheetahs are under the care of people and is the responsibility of their captors to properly care for them and that includes occasional advanced inspection of their health. Unfortunately, most exams of this nature for a captive wild animal requires sedation via a dart gun that delivers anesthetic and sedatives.
I don't prefer this method but the alternative requires a VERY properly trained wild cooperative animal and not all exams can be conducted with a wild animal without sedation, like x-rays. That takes time to teach to allow such an intrusive exam to include x-rays, needles and biological samples such as saliva, feces, blood, hair, shaving, poking, prodding, and forced maneuvering. An awake wild animal would not allow such intimacy and thus the need for sedation. Some procedures can be conducted using operant conditioning animal training, but not all. The drugs used in sedation can cause permanent damage to an animals immune system as well.
This is a two part series I am producing and covers the sedation and exam the 1st part and the 'awakening' on the 2nd. I hope you enjoy and learn something like I did in this process. I always envied wildlife vets getting close to wildlife and seeing them up-close while examining an animal in such a medical setting. This time I got to experience it 'live' and showed as much unedited and close ups video as I could to share with you.
Thanks for watching!
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Part 2 HERE! youtube.com/watch?v=g9uFTSmfntA
I follow every step of Gabriel The Cheetahs sedation check-up and examination plus sample taking. It was an VERY thorough examination and was impressed by Dr. Sandra Bertrams knowledge of cheetahs and direction of the exam. She has a practice in Bloemfontein South Africa and allowed me to film the process from start to finish. Much earned praise from me.
Captive cheetahs are under the care of people and is the responsibility of their captors to properly care for them and that includes occasional advanced inspection of their health. Unfortunately, most exams of this nature for a captive wild animal requires sedation via a dart gun that delivers anesthetic and sedatives.
I don't prefer this method but the alternative requires a VERY properly trained wild cooperative animal and not all exams can be conducted with a wild animal without sedation, like x-rays. That takes time to teach to allow such an intrusive exam to include x-rays, needles and biological samples such as saliva, feces, blood, hair, shaving, poking, prodding, and forced maneuvering. An awake wild animal would not allow such intimacy and thus the need for sedation. Some procedures can be conducted using operant conditioning animal training, but not all. The drugs used in sedation can cause permanent damage to an animals immune system as well.
This is a two part series I am producing and covers the sedation and exam the 1st part and the 'awakening' on the 2nd. I hope you enjoy and learn something like I did in this process. I always envied wildlife vets getting close to wildlife and seeing them up-close while examining an animal in such a medical setting. This time I got to experience it 'live' and showed as much unedited and close ups video as I could to share with you.
Thanks for watching!
My YouTube Channel:
youtube.com/channel/UC25bqOksVyD-SfdAToam-Bg
Twitter: twitter.com/cheetah_petter
Facebook: facebook.com/The-Cheetah-Whisperer-200126363927484
"Sedating wildlife for their betterment of their health, one animal at a time," Dolph C. Volker
Check Out My Books I Wrote
1: amazon.com/DIRE-ENCOUNTERS-Man-Meets-Wolf-ebook/dp/B00UEHUB2G
2: amazon.com/dp/B072N5M7KB
