Gabriel The Cheetah Sedation Day | Big Cat Goes To The Vet For Close-Up Examination By Doctor Part 1 @CheetahWhisperer

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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.

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Gabriel The Cheetah Sedation Day | Big Cat Goes To The Vet For Close-Up Examination By Doctor Part 1

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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.

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Kimi & Kayzer Cheetah Cubs 1st Birthday One Year Old | Cat Box Toy With Meat Presents & Antelope

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Cubs born June 2022. A Shorts celebrating Kimi's and Kayzer's the cheetah first birthday. Cheetahs don't seem to bother with boxes... like the ambush cats do, so placing some meat toys inside gets them inside!

Some wild cheetahs have cub mortality rates up to 90% before reaching adulthood. Inside an ethical and proper nurturing captive cheetah breeding project, that rate is reversed. Abi The Captive Cheetah bore two cubs and both are doing very well.

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Cheetah ASMR Crunching Down 6lbs Of Chicken In 10 Minutes | Slow & FAST Cat Teeth Licks Bowl Clean

Dolph C. Volker 2023-05-29 | Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC25bqOksVyD-SfdAToam-Bg?sub_confirmation=1
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00:00 ASMR Cheetah Crunching 6lbs Chicken
00:54 Slow Mode Cheetah Teeth
01:02 ASMR Cheetah Crunching 6lbs Chicken
05:02 Slow Mode ZOOM Cheetah Teeth Eating
05:15 Back To ASMR Cheetah Crunching 6lbs Chicken
08:55 CHEETAH SPEED==} Fast Forward
09:20 Conclusion - Meeting Gabriel After Meal

4K. I setup a camera to capture feeding Gabriel 6lbs or 4kilos of chicken as an ASMR relaxing observation of a cheetah peacefully eating. He tries to take the chicken out of his feeding pen but that is not good for him. He takes it to the grass and dirt and gets all kinds of dangerous debris in his stomach and intestines, not good. So he must eat larger piece of food in his pen. Thus me closing it. He growls, thinking I'm taking his meal. Never.

I toss in a couple slow modes and fast forwards in there for time sake and interesting motion.

What amazes me is that all this food ends up in white broken down bone and tiny amount of poo! His body uses most all of this food to maintain his body. All cheetahs are like this. ENJOY!

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Meerkat Versus Scorpion - Battle To The Death | Digs Up Arachnid & Eats Stinger Pinchers & Body 4K

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Chapters:
00:00 Enrichment MEERKATS
01:05 Pablo The Meerkat Hunts Scorpion!
03:17 Meerkats As Pets?
04:10 Meerkat Play - Need Family (MOB)
04:21 Conclusion - Observe In Nature Or Sanctuary/Zoo

We take a couple of rescue meerkats on an enrichment walk into a game reserve next door from where the cheetah project is located and let them experience the wilderness. I looked under a bunch of rocks until I found one that had a burrowing scorpion under it. Pablo, one of the meerkats, waltz over and smelled it! Hiding inside its burrow. He worked his legs and claws and extracted it with precision! Nicely, I was there recording it to watch this natural event take place.

Meerkats are omnivorous, meaning they eat both plant and animal. Grubs, insects, fruits, scorpions and even snakes are on the menu of meerkats. Amazingly, meerkats have some immunity to regional snakes and scorpions. It's an adaptation like their cousins, the mongoose which also have immunity to certain snakes and scorpions.

Meerkats are quite cute and smart but I emphasize how they are NOT pets and don't make good pets. Wild animals should be personal pets for folks. Rescues, rehabilitating ones for release, in a sanctuary because they can't be released (like found on a farm alone or parents killed) and certain quality zoos are the places where I agree a meerkat or wild animal could be housed and cared for. Pablo and Zulu are rescue meerkats that someone found alone and needed a home or would die. Running Wild Conservation brought them in and care for them.

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When Cheetahs Get Angry! | Gabriel Hisses Like A Cat, Warning Neighboring Cheetah To Back Off!

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A SHORT about Gabriel getting defensive about a cheetah neighbor that gets too close next to his camp. This hissing behavior is not really being angry, but defensive. When a cheetah sees something it is either surprised by, something unfamiliar, or does not like and these things breeches a comfortable proximity, cheetahs will 'HISS" at it to scare it away or just keep hissing by the annoyance of 'said' object. House cats do this as well.

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Cheetah Rather Encounter Friend Than Play With Cat Toys & A Box | How Captive BIG CATS Get Enriched

Dolph C. Volker 2023-04-16 | Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC25bqOksVyD-SfdAToam-Bg?sub_confirmation=1
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Chapters:
00:00 Enrichment Cheetah Cubs
01:43 Gabriel At 8 Months
01:58 Trying to enrich Gabriel NOT
03:26 Gabriel Can't Hunt
03:49 Gabriel Enjoys Sniffing Pee & Stink
04:34 Box enrichment For Gabriel & Abi!
05:00 What does Gabe do with box!
06:02 Gabriel chews Ear instead
06:45 Why Gabriel chews ear and grooms so much?
06:40 Sounds Of Kimi Yelling Brother
08:30 Conclusion - I am Gabriel's favorite enrichment

Ever since Gabriel has matured from his cub and teenaged years, he's mellowed and changed what enriches his life. In this order it is Females, Food then Friends. Gabriel is a non releasable breeder at this Cheetah Breeding Center called Running Wild Conservation. Abi and her two cubs Kimi and Kayzer are there as well. I show how cubs are easily entertained but adults are much harder. They all seem to enjoy chasing things, but Gabriel is limited in that respect. I can get him to chase me or he sometimes chases other cheetahs along the fence.

I build a LARGE cheetah box to see if cheetahs enjoy boxes. Abi and Gabriel had zero interest in it. I try hard to enrich the lives of my captive cheetahs and go all out. The key is finding what stimulates them and positively and safely work around those things.

Ultimately, I have to admit it is ME that enriches Gabriel's life the most as he explains over and over after I bring his something to enrich is life, he always turns back to me. Grooming his friend is one of his top pleasurable experiences Gabriel enjoys. He'll roll his eyes back while doing it. So that is what we do most together. He likes play fighting too and I allow that limitedly because I don't want to get injured.

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What Is IT? | Alien Life Form Octopus Tick? A Zombie Fungus Mushroom In A Cheetah Enclosure SHORTS

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I discovered this very strange but beautiful fungal formation life form inside Gabriel's camp. I know some funguses can infect cheetahs and people. I'm no expert and could not find his species of mushroom from a quick search so built a barrier around it so Gabriel would not step on it.

A savvy viewer identified this mushroom as a Earthstar! One of the Pokémon characters. Myriostoma is the Genus, Family Geastraceae. Not poisonous but not very edible either as they taste like cardboard.

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Cheetah Cubs First Wild Meal | Zebra Antelope Warthog Pigeon & MOUSE! With Some Hand Feeding To Tame

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00:00 Update- Abi's Cubs Nursing
0:32 Young Cubs First Meat Meal
00:55 Hand Feeding Kimi To Tame Her
02:55 Feeding Kimi Zebra Rib
03:15 Kimi is Food Aggressive! Attacks Mom!
04:00 Kimi Kayzer Eat Culled Zebra Head & Legs!
04:51 Kimi Kayzer Eat Play With Zebra Legs
06:01 Abi Plays With Zebra Tail
06:15 Kimi Kayzer Eat Pigeon, Mouse, Yuck!
06:40 Sounds Of Kimi Yelling Brother
07:35 Abi Kimi Kayzer Groom Each Other After Meal
07:56 Conclusion Cubs Out In Game Reserve Training.
0:30 My Thoughts About Predator/Prey Foods Provided

A wonderful encounter with Abi's cubs again, Kimya (Kimi), & Kayzer as I do some handfeeding, interact and show the variety of game foods they are being fed to prepare them for 'Live' hunts in the future. To feed these cheetahs by hand makes them trust you more and reduces aggression. The cubs show aggression towards each other but not YOU! That is safer and it helps when giving medicines to make sure they eat it.

From wart hog, zebra, antelope, pigeon, to a MOUSE! we give the cubs a variety of foods they might be exposed to in nature if they are to be released in the wild. The hide, bone, tissue, cartilage is all very good for them in their development as they grow. My plans are to have Kimi become a breeder but if she produces cubs for the project, I may release her one day to bare cubs on her own. Kayzer is not my cub so I don't know the planed for him and only time will tell but the owners have the best intentions and will either be a breeder or released for sure. Taking the cubs out into the open game reserve that resides next to the project, is essential training for them.

I hope to show some live hunts with the cubs but Abi cannot participate due to her bad hip. Another female cheetah that likes the cubs will be the training hunter.

My cheetahs are being housed and cared for at www.runningwildconservation.org They have a wonderful and respectful volunteer program where you can even escort the cubs and Abi mom on the game reserve! And so much more. Check them out.

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Run Over By A Cheetah 0-to-60 While Sitting | Gabriel Gets Spooked At Night & Leaps Big Cat Reflexes

Dolph C. Volker 2023-02-25 | Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC25bqOksVyD-SfdAToam-Bg?sub_confirmation=1
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I wanted to see if Gabriel behaved differently at night versus in the daytime. There was no difference until a light bulb I was using to film him fell from a tree branch I had it hooked to and spooked the hell out of him. He leaps in panic right through me. I was uninjured because a cheetahs claws are not sharp, accept for the dew claws which missed me.

Gabriel's comment about the show being over was a reference from an old Clint Eastwood movie he used to watch. Fist full of dollars or one of them.

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Selfie Time With Gabriel The Cheetah | Chew Ear Purr Play Cat Fight Groom & Primordial Hunt Bite! 4K

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CHAPTERS:
0:00 FINDING GABRIEL!
00:55 GABRIEL COMES TO VISIT!
1:47 SELFIE BEGINS!
02:46 GABRIEL LOVES EARS!
03:18 TALK ABOUT GABRIEL | WHAT HE THINKS OF ME!
3:53 GABRIEL AGGRESSIVE TOWARD MALE CHEETAHS
05:30 GABRIEL CLEANS HIMSELF!
06:40 GABRIEL FOLDS CROSSES HIS PAWS!
06:50 GABRIEL PURRS FOR ME!
07:40 PLAY FIGHT BITE TIME!
09:40 MORE PLAY FIGHTS BITES UNDER A TREE!
10:04 CONTENTED LOOK PASSIFYING BITE!
10:25 I ALMOST GET BITTEN - INJURED!
10:32 PRIMORDIAL PREDATOR LOOK ON FACE!
11:02 CONCLUSION!

I spend some quality time with Gabriel, The Cheetah. He really loves the visits and I show his behavior before, during, and after our encounters.

Cheetahs roll around on their backs for various reasons. Gabriel rolls and rubs the ground when I approach him. It is his way of telling me he is very happy to see me. He often rolls around and then looks to see if I am watching. Once that is done, he typically gets up for a physical interactive visit with me.

So, I filmed some clips of us during my visits on the ground in mostly selfie view to show what he does. Our encounter and his behaviors are quite predictable and how I can predict what he'll do. It normally begins is affectionate purring and grooming and ends with a cat play fight session. He loves to play fight and practice his predatory skills on my arm and hands. It is actually a bit scary for me as I only get to visit Gabriel twice a year due to a career that supports my project. But, he loves it so much that I accept the risks and allow the play bite sessions. I think in the end, it strengthens our bonds rather than risks it.

No on one else in the Universe enriches Gabriel as I can and why we are such good friends. He is alone in that wild camp and cannot have many visits from others as Gabriel has a history of some naughtyness and slapping so off limits except minor encounters. He is very dominant and can express that dominance on people and other cheetahs and why. I love him so take all the risks for him to enrich his life when I can.

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Christmas Update CHEETAH CUBS GROWING | Baby Weight Play Nurse & Why Honey Badger Appearance 4K

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00:00 Intro Abi Nursing Cubs Feeding Abi
0:46 Kayzer Kimi Snuggling With Toy Bear
01:28 Abi Cleans Eats Cubs POO!
02:22 Holding Cubs While Cleaning Den
03:50 Weighing The Cubs
05:11 Baby Kayzer Climbs In Lap Screeches!
06:12 Cheetah Cubs Pretend TO Be Honey Badgers
07:12 Cubs Walk In Wooded Camp & Game Reserve
08:02 ABi Nursers The Cubs - Show NIPPLE!
09:02 Abi Kimi & Kayzer At 5 Months Old!

Here's an update I owe the followers or Abi and her cubs. They are doing just GREAT! Product of mom's milk and great care and observation. This video fast forward from 5 days old to 5 months. Sucking, weighing, playing and growing! I talk about the MANTLE, the whitish grey colored fur on a cheetah cubs back that appears when young and disappears around 5 months old. It makes them look like honey badgers that is a survival trait against predation! I talk about the mammary glands and how each nipple has its own gland and when one nipple is empty, the cubs go to the next one. Finally showing them nursing again and the at 5 months old and very happy.

Next video about the cubs I show how they get exercise away from their baby camp (which is temporary for the safety for now) and let loose in a larger wooded camp and a large 400acre game reserve with MOM! I'll show an outing of them in this game reserve and a HUNT!!! And Kill! Oh my...

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Gabriel The Cheetah Smiles When Meeting Tree | BIG CAT Celebrates Arbor Day Flehmen Response SHORTS

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I love enriching cheetahs and one of the best way is presenting then something stinky. This tree is a centralized communication signaling post of all the cheetahs that get to visit the passageway where all the other cheetah camps are connected. The cheetahs get some free time to relax and visit the cheetahs between the fence in other camps. This tree is marked by other male cheetahs that get free time in the common passageway.

My post is a an anthropomorphic snide about us, and thought it was cute to be wrong why Gabriel was smiling about a tree It's called the flehmen response, like horses and lions do. Cheetahs have a Jacobson's organ in their upper palate that collects tiny particles that helps identify the smell.

The urine on the tree lasts for months and soaks in to the bark and why Gabriel is giving the phlegmon response to the stinks he smells on it. It allows him to detect other males that had used the tree and then mark it himself.

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Greeting Gabriel The Cheetah LIVE | The Cheetah Whisperer

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My 1st LIVE encounter posting... It's Gabriel The Cheetah! Wanted to show a short video of what it's like visiting Gabriel unedited and RAW. He decides how long the encounters last and I wait for him to come to me. I hate disappointing Gabriel so I wait for him to walk away before I end my encounters with him. He enjoys it so much. It's like a reward for him each day I greet him. But, like any cat. The moment is generally fleeting and you have to wait another cycle of affection before you get that affection again. Sometimes a day.

Thanks for watching and commenting on my 1st "LIVE" video. It has to be Gabriel that stared in it. And thanks for those who actually got to participate in it LIVE like I did. :)

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Whats A Cheetah Feel Like? Back Head Chest Tail Ear Legs Paw Claw | Scruffing A BIG & Small Cat 4K

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Cheetah Discoveries Due To Friendship
00:44 Do Cheetahs STINK When Wet?
01:59 Cheetah Breath Smells Like Soap??
02:32 Why Cheetahs Have Little Scent
03:57 What Does A Cheetah Feel Like ? Back & Sides
05:05 Cheetah Head And Neck
05:44 Cheetah Neck What's The Purpose?
06:42 Scruffing A House Cat & Cheetah
08:08 Cheetah Undercoat Summer & Winter
08:20 Belly Hair Wiry!
08:30 Cheetah Tail Rudder Shaped!
09:00 Cheetah Chest Hair Coat Winter & Summer
09:57 Cheetahs Woley Ears
10:23 Cheetah Legs Paws Pads & Claws
11:11 Conclusion! Why Petting A Cheetah Is So Rewarding

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A bunch of folks ask me what a cheetah feels like. I go into as much detail as possible to describe and show you! All areas of a cheetah are covered from head to tail! Just click on the Chapters I provided for you above and in the video! We humans have highly sensitive hands and feet of which touches most of the things in our world.

We take in the tactile messages and senses from our hands (mostly)... the fingers are very sensitive. It is a sources of pain feedback from danger as well as provide pleasurable feedback like petting a cheetah that wants petted! I explain my understanding about it. The reward or benefit I get out of my cheetah conservation project is of course holding, petting, and touching these wonderful animals that seek out connection with me.

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Abi The Cheetah LIVE CUB BIRTH | Watch Cub Exiting The Birth Canal | The Cheetah Whisperer Shorts

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View an amazing rare event... the birth of an endangered species. A cheetah cub from Abi who is a handicapped captive cheetah at a registered breeding project.

I pulled this from an earlier video to focus on the MAIN subject matter of the longer video. Abi The Cheetah gave birth to two cheetah cubs. Decided to upload more Shorts in the future for those folks liking shorter videos of cheetahs and my goings on...

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Hope you enjoy the pleasure of seeing these cubs and sweet Abi. Much more to come.

Abi Lets Me See Her Cubs! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK-4o...
Abi Giving Birth! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw5gb...
Abi First Time At New Project! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-OVd...

WOW! Abi The Cheetah had TWO CUBS! Everyone was SO shocked but elated! It was not expected as Abi was become a rescue cheetah education the public about captive but handicapped cheetahs! But several vets said she could mate and bare cubs if so desired. She DESIRED!

Abi has progressed far beyond Everyone's expectations. We are so proud! She has matured so much in the past year after acquiring her for my project and moving her to this one. Her confidence rose as well as her her condition with her bad hip and mental state. She started relaxing and trusting the folks caring for her and she OPENED up to everything to include breeding! Her mind and body opened up to the prospects of becoming a mother. Conditions were right! She selected a mate, one from this cheetah breeding project who is genetically diverse and viable, and they bred twice at two different times and the 2nd time succeeded in pregnancy!

The cubs are doing super! Nursing from mom from moment one. I'll be preparing future updates and posts about the cubs and mom. This video is few months old but everyone is doing SUPER!

Abi is legally owned by me but the cheetah father who bred with Abi is not. From a breeders agreement, only the female cub will be owned by me while the male is owned by the fathers owner. Both cubs will be FULLY raised to adulthood by Abi. As a first time mother, she is doing VERY well. SO protective all sudden and calling to them and nursing. She LOVES them. It's best to have mom cheetah raise their cubs because no one can substitute mothers milk. It has all the special nutrient inside to include antibodies, growth hormones and fats. So important!

I was amazed how Abi's hormones and instincts kick in for her new cubs. I mention no one taught Abi what to do from displaying while in heat, breeding, rolling, eating , more, then giving birth, nursing, calling, licking, and protecting her cubs. Since she trusts certain people (now even more people) she and her cubs get the best nurturing care possible and why I mention I am a HUGE fan of captive interactive care. It just means better success and better overall care for the animal. Just look and observe here and in the future.

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Abi The Cheetah Lets Me Visit Her Cubs | Listen To Baby Cub Purr Play Nurse | The Cheetah Whisperer

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00:00 Acquainting With Abi
02:48 Meeting Abi's Cubs Kimi & Kayzer
05:46 Kayzer Comes To Snuggle
06:53 Kayzer Cub PURRS
08:01 Cubs Visit Me Talk About Milk
10:34 Abi Calls To Cubs
11:30 Abi Gives Approval Me Holding Cubs
12:26 Baby Kayzer Plays Upside Down
13:33 Both Cubs Nurse On Abi
15:28 Sound OF Cub Suckling
15:55 Conclusion What Is Next For The Cubs & Abi

Abi Lets Me See Her Cubs! youtube.com/watch?v=uK-4oiOJg50
Abi Giving Birth! youtube.com/watch?v=vw5gb8v3Id4
Abi First Time At New Project! youtube.com/watch?v=8-OVd2_GXc4

Abi had become highly hormonal after the birth of her cubs. A survival instinct. In the beginning, only one female staff member could baby sit them. After working with Abi to earn her trust, she allows me to visit her cubs.

It's important to me for everyone caring for Abi and her cubs to be trusted. Time, love and respect heals. Abi is totally good now with her caregivers coming to visit and care for them. Even volunteers are trusted as I have asked for everyone;'s help in taming the cubs for better care going forward. I intend to place Kimi (the female cub I named her) back into the breeding program and that means I need to friendly with caregivers, whether familiar folks or strangers as I my place her on loan to a qualified breeding project years from now.

In this video I talk about why I am taming the cubs and how it benefits their overall care in the future. I also get permission from Abi to hold and experience the cubs which are only 5 days old! It was amazed how developed there were already and how the constantly move and exercise, nurse from mom and sleep to grow. I see a lot of instincts in both mom and the cubs expressing themselves and was simply fascinated. no one taught Abi to call to her cubs or be protective. It is a survival instinct.

I show glimpses of the future for these cubs and Abi as I've asked for them to be tamed to allow everyone to care for them, place a harness on them for controlled escorts to a large closed game farm (next to the project) and practice free roaming walks off lead on this veld area with prey animals.

Hope you enjoy the pleasure of seeing these cubs and sweet Abi. Much more to come.

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Abi The Cheetah Gives Birth - Two Healthy Baby Cubs | Captive Breeding Project Miracle Boy & Girl 4K

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0:00 Acquainting With Agi After 3 Years Apart
3:21 Abi Selects A MATE!
3:58 Mating & Birth
5:57 Nursing
6:36 Both Cubs Nursing
7:33 Conclusion & Next Time Abi lets ME visit the cubs

Abi Lets Me See Her Cubs! youtube.com/watch?v=uK-4oiOJg50
Abi Giving Birth! youtube.com/watch?v=vw5gb8v3Id4
Abi First Time At New Project! youtube.com/watch?v=8-OVd2_GXc4

WOW! Abi The Cheetah had TWO CUBS! Everyone was SO shocked but elated! It was not expected as Abi was become a rescue cheetah education the public about captive but handicapped cheetahs! But several vets said she could mate and bare cubs if so desired. She DESIRED!

Abi has progressed far beyond Everyone's expectations. We are so proud! She has matured so much in the past year after acquiring her for my project and moving her to this one. Her confidence rose as well as her her condition with her bad hip and mental state. She started relaxing and trusting the folks caring for her and she OPENED up to everything to include breeding! Her mind and body opened up to the prospects of becoming a mother. Conditions were right! She selected a mate, one from this cheetah breeding project who is genetically diverse and viable, and they bred twice at two different times and the 2nd time succeeded in pregnancy!

The cubs are doing super! Nursing from mom from moment one. I'll be preparing future updates and posts about the cubs and mom. This video is few months old but everyone is doing SUPER!

Abi is legally owned by me but the cheetah father who bred with Abi is not. From a breeders agreement, only the female cub will be owned by me while the male is owned by the fathers owner. Both cubs will be FULLY raised to adulthood by Abi. As a first time mother, she is doing VERY well. SO protective all sudden and calling to them and nursing. She LOVES them. It's best to have mom cheetah raise their cubs because no one can substitute mothers milk. It has all the special nutrient inside to include antibodies, growth hormones and fats. So important!

I was amazed how Abi's hormones and instincts kick in for her new cubs. I mention no one taught Abi what to do from displaying while in heat, breeding, rolling, eating , more, then giving birth, nursing, calling, licking, and protecting her cubs. Since she trusts certain people (now even more people) she and her cubs get the best nurturing care possible and why I mention I am a HUGE fan of captive interactive care. It just means better success and better overall care for the animal. Just look and observe here and in the future.

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Hoard Of The Flies | Sounds Of Million Fly Insect Army At Endangered Predator Project | Green Energy

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Hear the sounds of 10,000s of thousands, perhaps 100,000s or more flies buzzing together. Almost sounds almost like a bunch of killer bees. Thought this was interesting and a nice way to test out my new RODE remote microphone. I had been using it to record Gabriel and Abi and myself.

This is at a burn pit. One designed for animal waste, carcasses and human food. In South Africa, these remote Game Range projects don't have municipal public garbage collections so they have these burn pits. Typically one for solid waste, like paper and such and one for animal ones when you have a predator project like this. You can't always burn every day due to weather and bannings, so there tends to be an accumulation at times that attracts millions of flies and other scavengers. You can't always bury it right away as well. The pit needs to fill up as needed so you don't have too many of them. Anyway, that is why these millions of flies are around and so LISTEN! Fly power!

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Gabriel The Cheetah Loves Females, Food, THEN Friends | BIG Cat Expects Food But Gets Friend Instead

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Enjoy Gabriel's antics over females, food, and his friend.

I show examples of the priorities in life for male Cheetahs in captivity and probably the wild as well. Gabriel demonstrates how important the instinctive drive to reproduce is and how it's important to saving his species. The instinct of hunger is next in line of priorities and THEN friendship.

It's funny but interesting how life is. In there somewhere in between is also aggression, which is used to sustain personal survival, such as food aggression, defending territory (for wild cheetahs) and fighting off other predators to include other coalition of cheetahs. Many male and female cheetahs decide to fight for various reasons in captivity, but limited to protect them. Some aggression promotes the breeding response, like coalition of males slapping each other over a female the both like. Fence aggression is a real thing for captive cheetahs and controlled. Males could decide to kill each other if given the chance.

But in a captive breeding program like this one, problems are mitigated and controlled. Not so in a wild environment where many a cheetah dies to predation, injury, and sickness. Noit many cheetahs reach adulthood and far less die of old age.

Gabriel is so funny ditching me for females and food. But I am so glad he has enough room in his heart and mind to find a friend in me. THAT is my reward for giving loving care for him and all my cheetahs; past, present and the future.

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Introducing Abigale Abi The Tender Hearted Handicapped Rescue Cheetah Who Wants To Become A Mother

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Abi First Time At New Project! youtube.com/watch?v=8-OVd2_GXc4

I've known Abigale since she was a lil cub, but only 'blips' of her life with her sister Joyce. Abi (her nickname), was one of five cubs born to her mom Abby, who was a super nice friendly loving cheetah mom. Abigale was caught in the birth cannel and an emergency C-Section surgery was required to save the cubs and Abby. All cubs and mom were saved but Abi suffered irreparable damage to her back right hip. When she was old enough, surgery was required to correct it so she could walk and run again. It was a success, but it meant Abi could never be released so she stayed with her sister until last year 2021 when I went through the process of legally adding her to my project with Gabriel.

Well, fast forward and when I moved Gabriel to this new project, I brought Abigale with me and she has matured SO much that I cannot believe it. She was in the shadows of her sister and it is natural for a female cheetah to live isolated lives in the wild. Joyce and Abi are doing well. Abi has excelled in the months she has been at the new project. She has become brave, bold, confident and I have worked on both her fear of men and food aggression. She has huge wild camps to live in and share with a surrogate sister named Hunter. The results of her enrichment walks, improved confidence, good wild game nutrition, patience and love, she has shown signs of wanting to breed! I was satisfied with having Sweat Abi as a rescue animal to show the female side of cheetahs, but she wants more out of life! It means we are doing the right things that Abi's mind, body and sole have come to the conclusion that motherhood is a possibility too.

I consulted three different wildlife vets for their onion about Abi getting pregnant and any health and safety concerns for Abi's welfare. They all said she could easily bare cubs and would not be a problem and it it was, they could be ready with a C-Section surgery to help. I thought it would be worth the risk and allowed Abi to nurture her drive to breed. What comes next is fully up to Abi.

It would be a wonderful contribute to cheetah species and the world if she did. They would not be my cubs to Abi's and the worlds; adding to the endangered numbers of cheetahs in our world. Depending on the number and gender of the cubs, my plan has always been to divide them between breeders back in the program and/or designate for release. We shall wait and see. It would be a wonderful dream come true for me.

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Teaching Gabriel The Cheetah To Rub Like A House Cat | BIG CAT Shows Affection Training For Future

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I've left Gabriel to express his behaviors naturally and only trained him to come when called and learn his name. I wanted him to to natural as possible as a captive breeding cheetah. But, I was charmed by his 'rubbning' behavior, like a house cat. So, I started to re-enforce the behavior to help our bonding and eventual training for future basic health care, like examining his paws. Gabriel would rub between the fence all the time and so I wanted to see if he could be encourage and trained to rub face-to-face. I had some success and here it is! in 4K in most clips.

Eventually, I want all my animals to allow basic healthcare examination. It can be done quite easily with some basic operant conditioning, where the animal chooses to do a behavior you want. Some examples of the things I wish to train my animals in my care is to allow me to examine their bodies, to include inside their mouths, between their toes, in their ears, and accept needle injections so I can administer medication, give vaccinations, and draw blood WITHOUT sedation. Sedation drugs are very dangerous and damaging to cheetahs or any animal. Bad reactions can occur and lasting damage to their immune systems and kidneys. I don't like it and will do everything in my power to avoid sedations.

Gabriel and I only get about 6 weeks a year to re-acquaint. I don't have the best trust and relationship I need with him to train and get the results I wanted to train him for simple medical examinations. I hope to change that for future cheetahs and animals I have, but it requires me to have my project in order, which I do not... yet.

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Sharing An Ostrich Meal With Gabriel The Cheetah | BIG Cat Sees & Eats Ostrich The First Time In 4K

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I show some meat feeding to predators in this video. 4K quality. It is natural but some might find it squeamish. Just a warming.

My Jean Shepard reference and my impersonation is from where the movie A Christmas Story, where Ralphie's brother Randy was a kid that wouldn't eat. What a great movie that was. Gabriel can be like Randy and not eating and needs encouragement like Randy's mother gave him.

Getting captive wild cheetahs to eat varied quality meats is not always easy. Lions and leopards don't have that problem. I share a newly introduced ostrich meat to Gabriel to get him used to varied wild game meat. It helps to grant better care for these captive animals when they eat varied wild meats. It also helps identify if they are sick, when they won't eat certain favorite foods. Some cheetahs are extremely finicky and would rather STARVE! than eat some meats. Quite amazing to me.

I have fun introducing ostrich to Gabriel. Sometimes a bird comes in on donation that has perished on a farm. May cheetahs will eat ostrich but Gabriel had never experienced it before. I show him a wing with feathers and then buy a local ostrich filet and share it with him DIRECTLY! I cook my ostrich but Gabriel decided he wanted my cooked on and his raw.

My cooked ostrich was cooked special without any flavoring in case Gabriel eat mine, which he did! Spices are not natural and the reason I cooked it without any. It could possibly harm his intestinal system or give him diarrhea.

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Turning Back To Cheetahs Leopards & Cubs | BIG and BIGGER Cats Tested For Ambush Theory & Behavior

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From some older clips and a few new, I finalize my turning back to cheetahs to demonstrate the nature of ambush, stalking and difference between leopards, cheetahs and cubs. Ambushing is a survival trait for the BIGGER cats like leopards, tigers, jaguars and to some degree lions but not so much for cheetahs. It is because cheetahs are adapted/designed to RUN... and so fast they don't need to ambush and need open area to run 60mph to outrun their prey.

I also address folks who think these cheetahs would attack or ambush me turning my back if they were wild. I show a two wild cheetah and how they are nervous and avoid contact rather than engage. Cheetahs are skittish and non aggressive by nature and helps them survive in a wild where the top three predators kill them. Cheetahs cannot fight well due to their design to run. Tall bodies, less muscle, can't grapple well, can't bite hard, less endurance and many other factors. Both the leopards and cheetahs I show here (except the semi-wild cheetah cubs) are tamed and a leopard will pounce on you for play and food. In this case, tamed leopards are all playing when they practice ambushing me.

As for these cheetah cubs and leopards, they are not owned by me and had the privilege of encountering and studying them but they all were sent off to other project destinations shortly after this video. Only Gabriel is legally owned by me but I don't "own" him, I am his friend. Gabriel moved to another cheetah breeding and release project where I am trying to get him to become a breeder along with a female I own. I plan on talking about Abigale in the near future!

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Gabriel The Cheetah Gets Lookout Mound Rock Free & Pond Cleared Of Killer Bees By Hand | BIG CAT Luv

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Just some of the things done to improve the lives of captive cheetahs. Flattening lookout mounds and removing killer bees from their water ponds. This and many things are considered to help these cheetahs live in a natural environment as possible for their comfort. Stress, nutrition, clean water, large wild spaces and enrichment are all critical for a happy life for a captive cheetah and to stimulate the breeding instinct. For the 1st time I've known Gabriel, he is calling to a female; asking to mate. He never did that until moving to this new project and location. Things have improved for Gabriel and I could not be happier for him.

I have another female cheetah I have not introduced yet but will in the future. She is also going into 'heat' for the 1st time in her life since moving to this project. The new sites, sounds, smells, new cheetahs and stimulation has inspired her to become a mother. She is trying and shows me that things are in place that allows a cheetah to breed. I try and make these cheetahs lives as close to wild as possible yet believe in interaction to relieve stresses. But always allow them to chose to visit or not.

Enrichment walks, good wild foods, clean water, exercise, LARGE wild enclosures and lower stress promotes a healthy life which their biological clocks start ticking and they begin to breed. Captive cheetah breeding has been labeled difficult but I've seen quality cared for cheetahs go into heat and want to breed and produce cubs. I'll keep improving the entire process as I learn more about cheetah animal husbandry.

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Are Murder Hornets Murderous? Part3 | Man Pets European Wasps Insects Goodbye #Shorts

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Lat post of the European murder hornets. Pet them and say goodbye. They are not as aggressive as the Japanese hornets or attack bee hives like they do and more nectar collectors but do bring home the meat bacon on occasion too as I show SOMETHING all balled up in a mush in the mandibles of one of the hornets.

This was an experiment of the #Shorts but have to admit, not a fan. I like telling the bigger story and can't do that in just 60 seconds. The other thing very annoying about YouTube Shorts is that fact you cannot select your own customized thumbnail. Both posts placed a horrible thumbnail of my face. YouTube needs to fix this. I will post more #Shorts later but will make sure I have a pic in there to trick the algorithm to select my thumbnail I want and be something truly Short and worth it. You also don't get much in AdSense revenue using #Shorts, I noticed.

As for the Japanese murder hornets, they do seem to target honey bees and more aggressive. Still, would not suggest people PET any hornets. It is my way but I take calculated risks and accept the consequences of my decisions. It could be these hornets have not gotten the pheromonal signal to defend and attack their hive... the tiny larvae were no where near metamorphizing, so maybe that is why they did not attack me. They may be aggressive when the larvae are about to hatch! My guess. Or maybe European hornets are JUST that nice and like petting.

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Are Murder Hornets Murderous? Part2 | Testing European Wasps Insects Aggression Tolerance #Shorts

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I get closer this time and film my interaction with some European Murder Hornets; testing their aggression or not. I discovered they are not very aggressive but are defensive... some of them and BITE rather than sting for defense! Amazing! It is because they are so HUGE they are more powerful than most of their prey insects they tackle, so no need to waste energy on venom from the stings. They tear apart their victims with their strong mandibles. They also use the mandibles to carve up certain trees they like the sap from, drinking it up.

Next time I try and PET some European Murder Wasps... which should not be shocking to those who know me. I break the barriers of animal behavior and the best why I know to study and learn from them is direct contact. Filming from a distance only gives one side of the lives of animals and has its place as well.

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Are Murder Hornets Murderous? I Get Up CLOSE Asking European Wasps Insects In A Series of #Shorts

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Welp, my 1st #shorts video to go with the flow. This is the first part of a small series of my encounters with a really cool nest of European Murder Hornets near my home. I get as close as possible to determine their nature and behavior, as is my way with life. It helps me better understand the living and how best to live with them.

I get close to these hornets. The next couple of shorts I get CLOSER and try petting them; the kind of thing I do if you have not noticed. I needed to know how murderous these insects really are. Love to observe behavior and interact. It helps me determine how dangerous things are. I may publish a LONG 10min Murder Hornet activity ASMR of them placing the finishing touches on their hive on my other YT channel. Not really for this channel where i supposed to be the Cheetah Whisperer! But I LOVE insects too, so this is me.

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What Do African BIG Cats & Species Think About CATNIP | Cheetah Leopard Serval Caracal Meerkat Wolf

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CHAPTERS:
0:00 CHEETAHS!
5:24 LEOPARDS!
8:57 CARACALS!
10:37 SERVALS!
11:58 AFRICAN WILD CATS!
13:47 I POURING SOME OUT For THE Wild CATS
14:22 WOLVES!
15:10 DOG MEERKAT GOAT!
16:00 SPRINGBOK!
18:28 CONCLUSION!

a LONG video, but consists of clips I've gathered over the years to test all the African BIG and small Cats I had access too and ask the answer the question "How do you feel about Catnip?". I ask a few other species outside of predators for their opinion as well. It is fun enriching the lives of captive wildlife. They are captive for no condition of their own and I try to make their lives better by interacting and enriching their lives while trying to better understand them. My future cheetah breeding and release project will focus on breeding cheetahs for release but there will be times I come across a rescue animal that may or may not be able to release. I will attempt to enrich its life as much as possible before release or offer the best life possible with a 'forever home'.

Catnip is a herb that has some pheromonal effect on some house cats. The Africa Wild Cat is one of the genetic link to house cats. I suspected they would appreciate Catnip the most. What do you think?

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Cheetah Cleans & Scratches Ear With A Metal Screw | BIG CATS Play Greet & Groom At Breeding Center

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A short video about my old friend Kenji and some updates about him. Some clips older from when he was a cub and growing up as a captive cheetah at this breeding center. He is still doing well and had cubs that were sent to other projects in South Africa.

I show some of the clever things Kenji did and lead into how I try empathizing with the animals I encounter and mimic their behavior to better understand them and provide overall better care for them. Connecting on all levels helps me provide better physical and mental care for them and I simply love doing it.

Grew a beard during Covid times and decided to keep it as it helps protect me from getting cut from these cats sharp tongues that are covered by 100s of spines that cut skin with just a few licks. The cats LOVE to groom beards and is instinctive to them and a pleasure doing it with those they consider friends.

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Long Awaited Reunion With Gabriel The Cheetah | Big Cat Remembers & Loves His Friend After 2.5 Years

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My reunion with Gabriel was supposed to be 'LIVE' but there was not wireless out in the camps. This was recorded live. Due to a job and Covid restrictions, I was unable to return to South Africa for over 2.5 years. The opportunity presented itself and met Gabriel. I was actually nervous about it.

The encounter went as expected but I had a greater purpose returning than simply to see, care for, feed and enrich Gabriel's life. My plans for his and my future were delayed like our reunion. I had planed on moving Gabriel to another cheetah breeding project to become a breeder there months ago.

A few days after my arrival in South Africa, I moved Gabriel to a new cheetah project. He will remain on lone as a breeder while I prepare my own cheetah breeding and release project close by. He is already loving the move; enjoying all the new scents, sites, and sounds of different cheetahs and wildlife in the area.

Three females are curious about him but holds his heart but playing hard to get! Gabriel is actually 'calling' to females for the 1st time I've ever heard. The arrangement I made is that all of Gabriel's cubs will be raised by mom and released; baring any medical reason not too.

This is the next stage in our project dreams. More cheetahs will join our sprouting coalition and be announced and introduced later. Much much more to come with this wonderful program to save the cheetah. Both Gabriel and I are trying to do our part while enriching all of our lives in the process.

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Gabriels 8th Birthday Gift August 2021 | Becomes A Breeder At Cheetah Breeding & Release Project

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Happy birthday Gabriel! 8 years old!

My reunion video with Gabriel was supposed to be "LIVE" but due to technical difficulties, it was not possible. The recorded live video is coming soon and will be posted here.

This was meant to be a SHORTS video but not the right format of Vertical video, and it's too long! :) I moved Gabriel to another cheetah breeding project to become a breeder and discover new females who might like him.

Moving and loaning breeding cheetahs to different projects promotes hormonal stimulus of all cheetahs as something new becomes an interest and can provide better results in breeding. Cheetahs like someone new and distant from themselves. A greater chance of successful cubs. All cubs from Gabriel are designated for release, baring any tragic reason for not releasing them. I had Gabriel tested for viability and his sperm count is great and he is calling to some cheetahs. I think the chances are great! We shall see.

In the mean time, I will be posting more videos of Gabriel and talk about my future plans to build a small, concentrated, and quality cheetah breeding and release project of my own... very soon!

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James The African Cheetah Cant Stop Purring Near People | Big Cat Loves Attention & Company 🐆🧎‍♂️

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I'm back from South Africa; caring for Gabriel and Abigail while searching for my new project location, and decided to post an old video of James The Cheetah while I process all the new video to come. I met James some years back and the one thing I noticed and liked right away is that he is ALWAYS purring. He really loves people and you cannot get close to him and not hear him purring. Cheetahs don't purr all the time but I don't know when James turns his purr off. James purring all the time provided some opportunity to record a male cheetahs purr.

James was part of a registered cheetah breeding project but retired now due to his age... He is now 13 as if this posting. That is old for a cheetah who typically never reach that age in the wild. His new camp is in a new project in South Africa and doing very well.

A cats purr is an indication of contentment and researchers debate whether the purring is a conscious or unconscious response. Meaning can a cat (or cheetah) willfully start and stop a purring at will. I don't know either but one day I will experiment more to help find out. Teach one to purr on command if possible.

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Playing Catch Baseball With Finster The Ant Lion | Comparing Predator Feeding Of Gabriel The Cheetah

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I feed and play catch baseball with Finster the Antlion. Finster finished his Sarlac pit and I started feeding him and now he went dormmate over winter after eating all he could. Antlions in larval stage don't have an anus 🤢 which means they can't eliminate any waste and stop eating when they have enough food stored to metamorphize in 6 months. We played ball and I fed him until he stopped eating and now he waits in his home to be transformed. I hope he makes it. I have not seen any movement from him for months now. Once he metamorphizes into a dragonfly looking flying organism, he/she will set off to mate and do it all over again.

I compare my different feeding approaches between a sentient mammalian predator like Gabriel The Cheetah, whom I feed pre-prepared meals (not 'live' ones) and Finster, who must be fed 'live' meals to stimulate his feeding response to get him to eat. I don't think it is ethical to feed Gabriel live meals in his current enclosure and will only consider him hunting for his own food if I ever get the chance to train him on an open large 300hector or larger game range. That is fairer for both predator and prey. I won't 'pit' them together.

Finster is a different case in that both predator and prey are mostly instinctive and since I am responsible for their lives, I take responsibility for the feeding method I have chosen and must do. I value most all life but realize there are those on this planet where the balance of nature exists because of the relationship of predator and prey. If I hold captive a predator, then I must adhere to the best way of providing for them using my scale of ethics and common sense.

Hope you enjoy my goofy approach to science and discovery. I won't always use this approach but enjoy doing it occasionally. Next video should be a 'live' reunion with Gabriel the Cheetah as I am preparing a visit with him soon.

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Zakira The Cheetah Comes HOME! | Fundraiser Provides Future Motherhood & Freedom For Separated Cub

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As promised! This video is a thank you to all those who watched the video and contributed to the return of Zakira the Cheetah back to Running Wild Conservation. The fundraiser began back in Nov 2020 and ran through Jan 2021.

I thank you personally. Zakira left as a cub with her father as part of a breeders agreement and two years later the plan of bringing her back came to fruition. She can now be trained to hunt like her two twin brothers are doing and one day be released into the wild. RWC wants to breed her and released her into this wild with her cubs. The fundraiser helped finance this mission. Here is the Fundraise video for reference (youtube.com/watch?v=GdwUW9q-u6o).

I provided the deficit of the funds needed to bring Zakira home as we did not reach the necessary goal of $10,000 needed to purchase her from her owners. My contribution was about half after combining all fundraisers from RWC and my efforts. In return, RWC has agreed to provide space and care for my two cheetahs and place them into the enrichment, breeding and hunting program there. A bargain for me and the cheetahs! It was a noble goal and promise for all these cheetahs futures.

I hope to return soon to South Africa to personally see to the move of my cheetahs to RWC and provide support for their transition to a new and wonderful place for cheetahs. Thanks...

You can follow Zakira's progress and other animals at www.runningwildconservation.org and on their Facebook Page with the same name.

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My New Mini Monster Pet Insect FINSTER The Ant Lion or Doodlebug | Star Wars Sand Larvae Are Real !!

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Been crazy like the rest of us in Covid-19 lockdown. It is no different here. So, I looked for connections from the life around the farm where I live and discovered a rare Red Wood Ant colony and a predator that targets them... the Antlion or Doodlebug. The form conical depressions in loose soil or sand that becomes a difficult trap to exit once fallen into it. These antlions then keep tossing sand their way to further entrap them and bring them closer to their massive mandibles for a venomous BITE!

I watched these antlions over the summer entrapping and eating various insects. There were over a dozen antlion pit traps near this Red Wood Ant colony. I decided to capture one to learn more about them and keep him/her as a pet! I wanted to observe it throughout its lifecycle and even metamorphize into a flying breeding adult. That has not happened yet as they larval stage is just begun and takes about 5 months.

In this video I show the capturing of Finster, his name, and talk a bit about what an antlion is and how it feeds through it's mandible. Finster is a predatory insect in its larval stage, which is when it grows before stopping eating and cocooning itself and metamorphizing into and adult that has 4 wings and FLIES! I hope to capture the moment it emerges as a flying adult before its release to breed. The larval stage injects venom through the tips of its mandible. The poison contains a neurotoxin as well as digestive enzymes that dissolved its prey to be sucked backout... like a spider does. The toxin is QUICK! I have seen insects become paralyzed within 30 seconds. I did NOT getting bit by Finster so was careful, except when I tried picking it up! Almost got me.

Crazy me teaches Finster to play baseball with me... That is NEXT time on the Antlion Whisperer! Once Antlions stop eating, and full, they retire to metamorphize and that is what I am waiting on now as Finster sleeps the winter and hibernates.

I hope to return to South Africa to continue caring for and planning Gabriel and Abigale's future, the two cheetahs I legally own that I want moved to a new breeding center to continue their purpose of saving cheetahs. Hope to do this ASAP when Covid stops stifling business. Hopefully early 2021. I hope to film some of the activities LIVE.

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Meet Kiki The Meerkat Sitting Cheetah Mom! Help Return Her Cub To Breed Release & Return To The Wild

Dolph C. Volker 2020-11-01 | --==UPDATE==-- Zakira's fundraising is completed! Funds raised by YOU reached $2,800 through my efforts! Thank you VERY much. Zakira thanks you and so does Running Wild Cheetah Conservation. With RWCC's efforts and mine, we reached about half of the total needed. I have provided the remaining funds to secure Zakira's return home. Zakira is home now and I will provide a return video here on YouTube soon! It is very important to me that anyone supporting me knows it is done in good faith. I will never let down those who support me and will show the fruits of your faith in me with a video showing the return and progress of Zakira and her future. Super thanks!

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RWCC runs a cheetah breeding and release project in South Africa. Their focus is to breed quality cheetahs who are raised until maturity by their moms and release of their adult cheetahs after survival training.

Zakria is a cheetah born at RWCC but from a female owned by RWCC and the male from another project. Zakira left with the other owner due to a breeders agreement after a few months being raised by her mother Kiki. Now, Zakira's owner has agreed to sell her to RWCC and the reason for this fundraiser!

100% of my total online fundraiser efforts to return Zakira home are going toward the purchase of Zakira to bring her back to Running Wild Cheetah Conservation. Zakira will be owned by RWCC. I have made special arrangements to run the fundraiser until 31 JAN 2021. If the amount is reached before this date, all additional funds raised will be split between us. If the amount is not reached, I will pay the difference to pay for Zakira. RWC will make an equal trade agreement to care for my breeding cheetahs at their project in return. Either way, Zakira is coming home, so please help fund this worthy cause.

Once returned to Running Wild Conservation, Zakira will be bred once so her cubs will replace herself and increase the population of endangered cheetahs. She will then be trained for release into a protected wild to breed and raise cubs on her own.

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Hi everyone! We are so excited to share with you the news about Zakira, the 3rd cub Kiki (Yakira) had with her C-section.

As you have probably seen just over 2 years ago when they were born we had to give up the female, Zakira, to the owner of the male who fathered the cubs.

At that time we had to bring in new genetics but had no surplus funds to purchase another male cheetah. The only other option was acquiring a male on a breeding loan. Sadly the standard agreement with regards to breeding loans in the cheetah industry is a 50/50 split of cubs, and the owner of the loaned cheetah would collect their share of cubs at around 1 week after the birth. We could just not agree to remove the cubs at such a young age from their mom, especially with regards to our ethos of not removing cubs at all but allow the moms to raise them until adulthood.

After almost one year of searching we were fortunate to find such a person (a non-breeder) who owned a suitable male, and he was only interested in receiving one female cub to keep as companion for his older male cheetah, and more than willing for her to remain with the mother for a few months after her birth.

When the heart-breaking time came to let her go, we knew in the near future she would be reunited with not only us, but most importantly with her mom and brothers (Logan and Levi) and ultimately back into the wild when she's ready!

With the covid pandemic still hovering above all tourism globally, we are not in a position to pay the price of R165 000 (€10 000) for Zakira but we trust and believe people will open their hearts to help us get Kiki's girl Zakira, back home before Christmas.

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Gabriel The Cheetah Recovery Day From The Vet | Big Cat Awakens & Gives Account Of Experience Part 2

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Watch how a cheetah recovers from anesthesia. It's Gabe's turn to tell his story about how it is recovering from anesthesia and his vet exam. Ketamine and Domitor is a powerful sedative and set of drugs used to tranquilize wild animals. It can cause some hallucinations in certain doses but delivered properly will place the animal in a dream like state. I watch carefully as Gabriel is given the antidote and returns to consciousness.

I observe Gabriel most of the day until he recovers fully and made sure he was OK. He also had a stool sample done to look for problems and parasites but results were good. He also had blood work sent off with good results as well. Specifically looking at kidney functions and other blood indicators for any problems.

The last scenes are of me feeding him his favorite meal... Zebra. This was about 6 hours from the very start of the dart... I hope to teach my captive breeding animals to allow simple exam and even blood work and taking temperatures. It will help avoid dangerous immune system drugging necessary to perform on a uncooperative wild animal. X-rays may be a different matter but maybe even then, some portable device could be implemented and used on a trained animal. Maybe routine ones.

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My Philosophy Regarding Captive Wild Animals | Primary Purpose To Breed & Release Endangered Species

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A short compilation about my perspective and guide toward captive care of wild animals. I think there are some good reasons having captive wild animals. The primary one being the breeding and re-introduction of endangered species; something the late English naturalist Gerald Durrell believed and lived by. I share his sentiment but would include captive care for endangered older individuals, non-releasable, rehabilitating ones for re-release, and educational purposes, like at zoos. Ethical sanctuaries have a purpose in housing and caring for the wayward animal whether it be an endangered one or not. I support the concept.

It is important that people understand a captive wild animal that is NOT to be released should receive the best life and enrichment possible. I discovered providing direct interaction works the best for me. It is not recommended for everyone. For captive wild animals that are to be released, limited interaction should occur. An endangered species who is breeding in my care needs to trust me so that I can provide it's offspring the best chance for survival and release. A released tamed animal on a protected reserve will produce young that is truly wild when left alone and they can be released into a true wild environment.

Zoos have a beneficial purpose to educate people (and breeding if done ethically) but they need to be focused on the animal’s needs rather than visitors. My affinity for life in general was formulated from watching nature shows and visiting zoos as a child.

In the distant future, I plan on setting up a cheetah breeding center with the sole purpose of breeding with intent to release. Some individuals will remain captive as part of the breeding program. In this instance, I feel it is my obligation to provide these animals the best stress free quality life possible. For me, that means interactive care which results in better physical and mental health.

Taming provides better overall health for an animal rather than one which never receives interaction. Tamed animals are happier and less stressed, which makes them healthier. A simple injury or condition can be discovered & treated or examined by hand versus a ‘wild’ animal with the same injury might fester because you must wait until it becomes critical before administering aid… where sedation is required. A tamed animal that trusts me will allow directed medical aid & if trained, even allow drawling of blood, taking temperatures, dressing wounds and more. You can’t do that with a wild animal that does not trust you.

I've seen and compared captive wild animal scenarios of this world... ones where they are exploited, neglected, used, but also protected, loved, and purpose driven with the animals benefit in mind. I've seen the difference enrichment and interaction makes and where the lack of said things leaves animals stressed, sickly, diseased, with behavioral problems which makes them more dangerous. There is no comparison in the quality of life a permanent captive animal receives when interacted with versus one that is not.

Cheetahs in captivity often suffer from stress. Positive interaction lowers stress & makes cheetahs better breeders while providing better lives. I will continue improving captive cheetah conservation the best way I learn how.

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African Caracal Plays With Tennis Ball & Human Before His Release Into Wild | Scratch The FLOPPA

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I'm sharing any revenue earned from YouTube AdSense from this video to help RWC during the Corona Virus lock-down. All non-profit animal facilities worldwide are hurting badly with people not able to travel. Volunteerism is how many like RWC survive and hope this helps.

I spend some enrichment time with Scratch the Caracal, Stewie's twin brother, when I volunteered at Running Wild Cheetah Conservation before his ultimate release into wild wild. Remember Stewie?

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These two caracals were bought from a breeder in South Africa so they would not become pets. That promise to these caracals was met after they became adults and RELEASED onto a Big 5 Game Reserve (not a hunting lodge). Welgevonden Game Reserve does game drive tours of the animals there. 550000 hectars which is over 100,000 acres! Capable of comfortably housing wildlife in this Big 5 Game reserve. In this video, I share time and enrichment with Scratch. I knew the day would come when both would to be released and was blessed to have encountered them before their release.

These cats are natural hunters and no one involved doubts their chances in the wild. These captive caracals are highly capable small animal hunters and often catch birds that fly over their enclosures and eat them. Since their release, tour guides are recorded encounters of Stewie and Scratch on game drives of tourists. They are enjoying their original purpose in life... to be living free and wild.

Here is a message from the founders of Running Wild Cheetah Conservation about the caracals released in to the wild.

"Its really important to give out the message the importance of rewilding animals that can be successfully released. To many unnecessary breeding of caracals are taking place to profit from, which results in too many caracals being kept in captivity, imprisoned for life! They are intelligent animals and naturally good hunters. They adapt easily back into their natural habitat. Its important to be careful where to reintroduce them, the reserve must be large enough for them to find their own territory, settle down and not wonder off onto farmlands where they might get shot for killing livestock. This is why we chose this big reserve as a release site for these special boys who were bred by a breeder for profit and entertainment, but luckily found us to get them back into the wild, where they belong! RWC"

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Calling A Cheetah To Dinner | BIG CAT Comes RUNNING FULL SPEED When Called | Eats From Hand Fed Food

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I teach Gabriel to come when called for food when its dinner time. I want to teach him phrases and words but also LOVE seeing him run... what a cheetahs is designed to do. I record some slow mode motion of his arrival from WAY out inside his enclosure with some close ups.

Cheetahs, like any wild predator, can become quite possessive and aggressive over food due to the instinct of hunger and survival and I use the opportunity to hand feed Gabriel some of his food to help ease his mind about my intentions.

In the wild male coalition of cheetahs share kills, some sharing better others. When I am away for so long between caring for Gabriel, he often forgets that I share food with him and I have to reacquaint and re-educate my intentions with him. I even hold his bone for him so he can eat it better.

In between the tensions of feeding time, Gabriel goes back to his adorable, loving, affectionate, playful self. It's a joy to interact, care, play, and feed Gabriel. He is a breeding male cheetah at this project and in Dec 2019 actually mated with another female cheetah! If there are cubs... about 90-98 days gestation period.... I will record the births! What a wonderful legacy Gabriel will pass on if he becomes a father... We shall see.

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Sleeping Outside With Gabriel The Cheetah | BIG CAT Gets Stomach Ache From Eating Foam Mattress

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I spend some quality nights outside in Gabriel's enclosure to better bond with him, see what he did at night, how he slept, how he behaved, but then something terrible and concerning happened.

Staff mentioned he might go crazy over bedding and pillows so I was careful in my presentation to him. Well, he got hold of my foam mattress and would not let go. He ended up eating some of it before I was able to remove it from him. I had to use a bucket of water! I was afraid of getting bitten or scratched or I would have just grabbed it, but I knew he would try very hard to keep possession (like I have experienced in other things he's taken from me) so I did not want to cause a fight between us and wait it out. I also did not want pieces ripping from his mouth when I removed it and he swallow it. Well he ended up eating some of it! I was SICK with worry!

I hand fed him some LAXPet to help loosen his stool and then spent the next week watching over him every day and night and checking his poo. He seemed OK and all of the foam passed out, but I was very worried.

Gabriel allowed me to lay next and cuddle with him while I watched over him. I had to sleep on the hard ground with just a tiny pillow because I could not bring in any blankets or sleeping bag or he'd try eating it. It is the BIG reason nothing is allowed left inside these cheetahs enclosures after you leave from a visit. Anything left behind has to be 'cheetah proof'.

I was VERY relieved (so was he ;) when after 7 days monitoring him, he was OK. I checked on his stomach throughout and listen for digestive processes to make sure things were working inside. I was worried about blockage. Observing his overall health, mentality, and behavior.

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Gabriel The Cheetah 360 BIG CAT World | Feline & Best Friend Hang Out At South African Breeding Camp

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Sorry for the white washed out video. This was my 1st attempt at making a 360 video and had the ISO setting for more night shots as I used it at night too and forgot to set it back to 100ISO. I tried editing it as much as possible to clean up some. It was much worse.

Anyway, I wanted to show the 360 degree world of Gabriel The Cheetah and what we do together when I am there volunteering and caring for Gabriel. I legally own Gabe but no one 'owns' him. I hope I can establish my own cheetah breeding project there in South Africa one day and begin raising mother raised cubs for training and release into a controlled wild.

A controlled wild is where there are borders but large enough to sustain wild game animals but no other predators. Basically an internal ecosystem designed to sustain a balance between predator and prey; as natural as possible. The next step is to move the cubs raised inside the controlled area and release them into a open wide reserve when adults.

In this video, I really show how far I've reached Gabriel as his best friend. He has an affinity for me that was built from love and respect over time. It's been 6 years. I want to use that friendship and trust to one day have him wear a GPS collar and enter a controlled release game range and hunt together. I need that trust and companionship as a surrogate coalition brother so I can teach him how to safely survive in a wild. But, I will always have my door open to Gabriel to visit me as I plan on living on the game range myself to monitor all of them. I'll certainly visit them on occasion to monitor their health.

It certainly is a dream and a BIG one but I am no closer to achieving it. Gabriel is in a wonderful place and cared for by those who love him but there is something better out there for him and I want to show it to him... a sense of what it is like to be wild.

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Making Friends With Insects | Saving A Camel or Cave Cricket From Dying By Giving It Water By Hand

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I've discovered my fascination of insects long before my admiration for the animals of this world. I find myself intervening in the lives of organisms I discover in distress, either in nature (when I sense it is appropriate) or inside my own home. Sometimes I just admire them for awhile and let them go. My compassion for the living is vast and I go out of my way to rescue insects and animals trapped in my house or in nature that by no fault of their own have become incapacitated, sick, or dying due to our man-made industrial world. For instance, a beetle unable to right itself from its back because it fell over on concrete (which isn't natural to them).

In this video, I discover a trapped camel or cave cricket in an empty water basin. I don't know how long it was trapped inside, but probably a day or two and knew it would enjoy some water. I describe a little about camel or cave crickets and show how even the smallest of the living takes a break from its instincts of fear and drinks water from my wet finger.

I wasn't always this way; compassionate to insects, but always had a fascination about them. I've done my share of crushing insects in my early years but as I matured, my respect for life increased. I will now go out of my way now to help them and other organisms I sense need help.

I mention in this video that I see myself as part of this natural world rather than a casual observer of it, and so if my nature directs me to intervene in saving lives, I consider it natural to do so. I have a sense of duty in protecting it... being a steward of life. We humans have dominion over the animals but that does not mean we are to dominate them in my view. This is what I have become and it is biblical and personally for me.

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Dog & Cheetah Welcomes Home Friend After Long Time Apart | St. Bernard & African BIG CAT Reunion

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Some compare much of the behavior of cheetahs with dogs. Much of the physical characteristics of cheetahs and dogs are similar too, like the sleek body build, high center of gravity, and even the claws that are semi-retractable on cheetahs that always stick out which are typically dull and used for gripping earth when running.

Dogs are descendants of wolves which are highly social pack animals with a specific social hierarchy. Cheetahs are considered "semi-social cats" mainly because they form 'coalitions' of male cheetahs in the wild. These male cheetah coalitions are mostly comprised of brothers but can also include non related males. These coalitions typically remain life long and have hierarchies, they establish territory, defend it, hunt on it, find mates and then die on it.

When I volunteer weeks in a year (taking care of Gabriel The Cheetah), I had to leave my dog Shasta behind. I compare my reunion interaction with both Gabriel The Cheetah and Shasta The Dog when I came home after stints of absence. Weeks for Shasta and months for Gabriel. Heartwarming reunion. Both remembered distinctly our friendship and relationship.

Shasta passed away since this video over a year ago but wanted to post something to remember her by and the best moments of my life so far.

I legally own Gabriel and pay for his care at this registered cheetah breeding center in South Africa. Gabriel is there to procreate and help save his endangered species. That is his main purpose of his captive life at the moment. I plan on improving his state by one day by moving him to a larger game range where I can show his some freedom and teach him to hunt. I'd really like to find him a cheetah male coalition friend to share time and life with. I am trying.

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Cheetahs Get Ticks Too | Man Pulls Parasites Off BIG CAT By Hand & Veterinarian Pet Store Toy Tool

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Parasites can be a major hazard. I don't like killing things but I will kill parasites that are a direct threat to me or the ones I care about. Even cheetahs can't outrun ticks. They are present globally across temperate zones of the earth and will not only wait for you but some, like the African Bont tick, will actively seek you out and run you down! Like mosquitoes, they search for CO2 from an animals breath.

I demonstrate in this video how having a great bonded connection with wildlife in your care benefits their health. I make basic physical exams every time I visit Gabriel or other animals I happen to come across. Having positive relationships with animals in your care... gives them overall better care. Gabriel is legally mine and I love caring for him at this cheetah breeding project (when I can).

I also show how to use a tick extractor I bought at the local pet store. I like the spoon wedged ones that have the notch in them. It removes the head of the tick better than others I have used, unless the tick is deeply embedded, then you run the risk of leaving the head to decay inside the skin and cause an infection.

Tick meds work but I prefer not to use them if I can avoid it. I use veterinarian prescribed Comfortis to control and kill ticks for up to one month. These cheetahs don't get fleas but it would kill those too. Comfortis does not kill eggs or larvae but does a good job getting rid of ticks that are attached and ones that will later. The poisons in the meds enter the bloodstream and the ticks feed on the blood and die. I much prefer a natural measure to kill and control ticks and will continue searching. It is the best of worse solutions to give this medicine to Gabriel. Not using the meds means ticks all over him and using it poisons his blood.

You don't want the cheetahs on poison meds when breeding, it could result in negative conception, growth, birth, and health of both mom and cubs. So the meds are timed during the summers around breeding plans so not to cause trouble, but that exposes them to ticks. That is why I call it a double edged sword.

Some use chickens and ducks to remove ticks and bugs from fields. If careful, controlled fires can help kill tick eggs in the spring, but that solution is not really viable in hot dry South Africa. Poisoning the camps is also a hazard, but you can rotate camps and allow the poisons to take affect and dissipate in the sun over time.

Still looking for the perrfect solution to the tick problem, and all parasites. Worms are a concern too and the cheetahs get de-wormed meds as well. There isn't a perfect solution at the moment.

Gabriel also gets de-wormed about every 2-3 months with more medication. Again, I don't like it but it is the best of worst solutions. Worms or no worms. Parasites can do major damage to any animals health.

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African Cheetah Thanks Man For Building Stair Steps To Help His Limbs | Big Cat Breeding Project

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For those impatient! Skip to 07:00 for the Thank You from Gabriel The Cheetah.

Too many people saying I took credit for something I didn't do. I did not show much of my part because it was boring and wanted to give more credit to Papese and Steven; naming and thanking them.

I built the two steps from scratch from a scrap yard, drug all that to the working yard, dumped it, pulled out all the nails, screws, chicken wire, measured all support boards, poles, and cut them to size, attached the cut boards to make the steps, reinforcing them with brackets I bought, and marked where the holes were to go into the ground. THEN I asked the paid staff to help dig the holes and put together the parts. I finished boarding up the front and sides so Gabe can't hurt himself, painted it all and then cleaned up, placing all material back where it could be used again.

The end where I screamed was me teasing about almost getting sprayed by Gabriel. Cats love to mark something new in their territory as theirs. He was beginning to point my way and why I leaned away. He did not spray me, but yes I was sitting where he pee'd earlier. I've sat in worse.

What a pleasure it is to care for Gabriel The Cheetah. Gabriel is legally mine and I look for problems to solve in regards to his health and safety. It really does not feel like work when I do projects and spend time for and with him. Gabriel is a breeding male at a registered cheetah breeding project in South Africa called Cheetah Experience.

This a condensed version of the 10 days I worked, all compiled into about 8 minutes. Enjoy watching it as I did building this stair step to help prevent joint, ligament, tendon, muscle, and bone damage for Gabriel.

Cheetah Experience helped me gather parts, posts, boards, screws, bolts, and even staff help to build this stair steps for Gabriel. It all came from the scrap yard except for a few screws and brackets.

I spent about 10 days building this thing and joke I spent more time playing and caring for Gabriel and the animals than working. Ok, I was on vacation and I love spending the time with Gabe and the others. Point is there is a LOT of work to be done daily and in the future at a Cheetah Breeding project like this. The work is gratifying because you know the the results benefit the animals directly.

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Hunting Wabbits | Cheetah Cubs Train & Hunt Off Lead For Rabbits Hares On Open Range Game Farm

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A wonderful trip down Running Wild Cheetah Conservation cub training memory lane. I spent some time recently volunteering at RWCC in South Africa to assist in training the cubs to enrich and train for a future release; among other things. These cubs were born at this breeding project and being 'mother' raised to adulthood before release.

RWCC is doing ground breaking work in my opinion and I am learning from them as well as others who wish to help the endangered Cheetah survive. A captive breeding program is one part of the answer and has proven successful. The experience and knowledge shared between conservation groups like RWCC is improving the overall process birth to release. More and more is being learned from dedicated people who have something valuable to share in the fields of science, knowledge, and experience.

We take a Skyler and Zahra, Shadow's cubs, on an enrichment walk to hunt some wild hares in a large game range. You can just SEE the enthusiasm of these cheetahs as we transport them from their overnight enclosures to the fields where the wild hares live. Wide eyes and open mouths of anticipation as we travel to the destination.

By the time these cubs age to about 2.5 years old, they will be prepared and ready for a release. RWCC has a new project location North West of JoBerg in South Africa with new larger enclosures for their animals and a massive wild animal stocked game range to train, hunt and live on when released. It has been a dream of the founders to RWCC since the beginning nearly a decade ago and now close to reality.

Check out their webpages and consider joining them in volunteership, internship, or direct donations to help them succeed and save a special cats species... the Cheetah.

Folks like the Gouws and others have inspired me to do the same, and I hope to establish my own cheetah breeding/release project in the future and increase the chances of success of projects like this.

For those who didn't catch the Looney Tunes reference in my video, that is me aging myself with a reference to a classic Looney Tunes battle between Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny where Elmer is a hunter trying to get Bugs but never does because he is always getting smarted.

Elmer had a speech impediment where he could not pronounce the letters R or other in words, like Rabbit or Very and it made it funny back in the day. Making fun of peoples or animals handicaps is not cool today... ') But I just had too because this is what it reminded me of. It was not to belittle the prey rabbits that are running for their lives as well. I respect and admire all life but I also understand the balance. But, I also have to be me.

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African Cheetah Licks & Eats Animal Blood BloodSicle Popsicle | Hand Feeding BIG CAT Protein Icicle

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On HOT days in South Africa, temperatures can reach over 100deg Fahrenheit or more (38deg C+). When temps get this high, these predators shut down, look for shade, and rest during the day. They wait until the temps cool before being active; that includes getting water. To help cool down and enrich the animals in my care, I like giving them BloodSicles.

Blood is very nutritious and when cheetahs make a kill, they get a LOT of their fluids, protein and other nutrients from the blood of the animals they kill. In a captive environment, collecting blood from their stored food helps simulate the benefit of drinking blood in the wild. Fresh blood is the best but nothing bad about freezing collected blood and giving it to these predators on a hot day.

This is a video of the 2nd time I gave Gabriel a BloodSicle and he really enjoyed it. The thicker and more concentrated it is, the more he enjoyed it. I often collect the spilled or dripped blood of his meals in his bowl so he can drink it.

I also point out how cats lack the taste bud on the tongues for something sweet. They have all the other tastes to include something on the tips of their tongues to detect water. Next time I will freeze a BloodSicle and a Popsicle on a wooden stick and give Gabriel a choice to eat one or the other or Both!

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Do Cheetahs Prefer Cold Hard Concrete Or Warm Blankets Pillow & A Friend? | Three BIG CAT Night

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I love when I know the answer to a question before it's asked. Do cheetahs prefer cold concrete or warm blankets and company?

These captive cheetahs were bred and born at cheetah breeding centers in South Africa; one at Cheetah Experience. All are quite tame as they are groomed for the breeding program so when they have cubs, they can be monitored closely. An accepting and approachable mother allows that. There is a plan to release one of these cheetahs into a protected wild in the near future.

I was granted special permission to spend my nights with the three because I had watched them grow up and built up a relationship with them during past volunteering.

It is natural for a family or friends of animals living together to share warmth. It is a survival behavior that is innate. In our human survival schools, we are taught to huddle together if lost in the wilderness; conserving heat by sharing warmth. They recommend you do it without clothing because fabric acts like an insulator and you don't get the maximum efficiency of heat transfer to your body.

I think it is really cool these cheetahs trust and like me enough to share their most vulnerable time at night to snuggle, purr, and share their warmth and sleep with me. It is an extraordinarily rewarding feeling.

I don't get much sleep due to the constant getting up, readjusting, and laying back down. Cheetahs are very skittish and wake up at the slightest sound or vibrations, so I don't get much sleep, but I don't do this to get rest but to experience something quite unique and special. I don't sleep with these cats, they sleep with me. They come to me which makes it more special. They enjoy the company almost as much as I do.

There is a cameo visit from Lucas the Jumping Spider at 01:45. Even spiders enjoy warm blankets, pillows and good company. Who doesn't?

"Sleeping With Cheetahs; Three Cheetahs At A Time," Dolph C. Volker

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All You Can Eat African Bullfrog Buffet | Real Live Kermit The Frog Engorges On Flying Termites

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After three days of heavy rain, the skies of South Africa filled with a multi-million release of winged flying termites (called Alates). I drove home one evening and my windshield slammed into the insects like rain. On top of that were 1000s of beady eyed species of frogs on the roads and highways... just waiting for them. I walked back to my bungalow and noticed a flood light on with 1000s of the flying termites landing releasing their wings under the lights.

Both Kings and Queen termites take flight to mate and establish new colonies away from the ones where they were born. Waiting for them are 1000s of frogs and other predators and insect eaters.

The termites use a "overwhelm with numbers" tactic to survive the onslaught of animals feeding upon them. What is amazing to me is that ALL the termites in an area where the environmental conditions are right (usually after some soaking rains) they release their alates to the wind at night all at once. They take to the wing to establish new colonies after mating. There are so many that it is impossible for those feeding upon them to catch them all... thus securing a chance for a future colony somewhere.

This African bull frog was under the lights engorging himself on these termite Kings and Queens as they were focused on their mating game. I arrived late and this frog was already at his buffet stuffing himself. I recorded 10 minutes of it eating and then got bored. These frogs need to feed before burying themselves under the mud to wait for the next rains. Glutting is considered a sin but not for the Africa bullfrog... it is a blessing.

This is a young frog as it is about HALF the size of an adult.

"Watching African bullfrogs engorge themselves, one termite at a time," Dolph C. Volker.

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