Dolph C. Volker | VBlog Documentary 3 Year Friendship With Gabriel The African Cheetah | My Emotional Big Cat Reunion @CheetahWhisperer | Uploaded March 2017 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
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My 100th video had to be about my favorite animal in this world, outside my dog Shasta, and 4th reunion of my cheetah buddy Gabriel. If you noticed, most of my videos are about him. I was back volunteering at Cheetah Experience this past December 2016 and decided to make a Video Blog or VBlog of our relationship so far.
IT's A LONG ONE but necessary to show our history and true friendship over the past three years; that and a little exposure of my feelings for him. I don't like showing emotion but Gabriel brings that out in me. This video is for me to remind me of him, but was willing to reveal some of my emotion publicly.
New safety and health protocols were in place at Cheetah Experience so I was not allowed to visit Gabriel inside his enclosure as before. The news was devastating for me. I've never so disappointed in my life, but a facility like CE cannot afford an incident or the over-reacting negative publicity that follows. The animals and program are more important than getting a hug from my buddy so I understand.
I was delighted that I did not need to hold Gabriel to reacquaint and re-establish our bond together. In fact, I witnessed a new behavior I had not seen before from him... Rubbing!
I often mimic positive animal behaviors and calls to aid in my relationship with animals and used Gabriel’s rubbing to help solidify ours. I simulated rubbing back against him. I don't know it he would rub me if we were face to face and not separated by a cold rusty fence.
I know my encounters with Gabriel would have been fine but CE cannot take that chance and I understand. Just this past month there were three incidents and attacks at other facilities involving cheetahs. Tragically, a three-year-old boy died from an attack by a captive cheetah that walked out of its pen because of someone's negligence. Manslaughter charges could be pending for this operator. The animals at CE cannot afford to lose support and so safety and health for both human and cheetahs must come 1st.
Enjoy my blubbering over my cheetah Buddy Gabriel. He is the 1st animal that I love that I don't own. This is because he was the 1st to fulfill a life-long boyhood dream of mine. To befriend a wild animal and have it love me back. Gabriel fulfilled that dream and it was his actions that allowed it. He came to me rather than the other way around and I could not be happier about it.
I admit it... I love Gabriel and I think he loves me back.
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Please like this video if you like it ;)
Subscribe: youtube.com/channel/UC25bqOksVyD-SfdAToam-Bg?sub_confirmation=1
My 100th video had to be about my favorite animal in this world, outside my dog Shasta, and 4th reunion of my cheetah buddy Gabriel. If you noticed, most of my videos are about him. I was back volunteering at Cheetah Experience this past December 2016 and decided to make a Video Blog or VBlog of our relationship so far.
IT's A LONG ONE but necessary to show our history and true friendship over the past three years; that and a little exposure of my feelings for him. I don't like showing emotion but Gabriel brings that out in me. This video is for me to remind me of him, but was willing to reveal some of my emotion publicly.
New safety and health protocols were in place at Cheetah Experience so I was not allowed to visit Gabriel inside his enclosure as before. The news was devastating for me. I've never so disappointed in my life, but a facility like CE cannot afford an incident or the over-reacting negative publicity that follows. The animals and program are more important than getting a hug from my buddy so I understand.
I was delighted that I did not need to hold Gabriel to reacquaint and re-establish our bond together. In fact, I witnessed a new behavior I had not seen before from him... Rubbing!
I often mimic positive animal behaviors and calls to aid in my relationship with animals and used Gabriel’s rubbing to help solidify ours. I simulated rubbing back against him. I don't know it he would rub me if we were face to face and not separated by a cold rusty fence.
I know my encounters with Gabriel would have been fine but CE cannot take that chance and I understand. Just this past month there were three incidents and attacks at other facilities involving cheetahs. Tragically, a three-year-old boy died from an attack by a captive cheetah that walked out of its pen because of someone's negligence. Manslaughter charges could be pending for this operator. The animals at CE cannot afford to lose support and so safety and health for both human and cheetahs must come 1st.
Enjoy my blubbering over my cheetah Buddy Gabriel. He is the 1st animal that I love that I don't own. This is because he was the 1st to fulfill a life-long boyhood dream of mine. To befriend a wild animal and have it love me back. Gabriel fulfilled that dream and it was his actions that allowed it. He came to me rather than the other way around and I could not be happier about it.
I admit it... I love Gabriel and I think he loves me back.
My YouTube Channel:
youtube.com/channel/UC25bqOksVyD-SfdAToam-Bg
Subscribe: youtube.com/channel/UC25bqOksVyD-SfdAToam-Bg?sub_confirmation=1
Twitter: twitter.com/Dolph_C_Volker
Facebook: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100011235884507
Google+: plus.google.com/+DolphCVolker/posts
PayPal: To help me finance my volunteering & making these great videos :=) paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=UGXLLG5QK6RRC
Thanks for watching!
Check Out My Book I Wrote: amazon.com/DIRE-ENCOUNTERS-Man-Meets-Wolf-ebook/dp/B00UEHUB2G/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1459509880&sr=8-2&keywords=dire+encounters
