Every ten days we have to do a slaughter so the cheetahs can have fresh, lean meat like they would in the wild. They usually eat the lean antelope, but because they are in captivity they are fed horses and donkeys as they are the least fatty red meat. We do not kill or skin the horses, and the horses are bought from an auction and are either very old or sick with cancer or an irreversible injury (I am still a vegetarian, this experience only furthered my distaste for meat). We only cut the meat off the bone, but it was nonetheless a messy process as you can see. The cheetahs eat once a day at 4 pm whatever amount of kg is best for them with a calcium and probiotic supplement, except on Wednesdays and Sundays it is almost like a diet day and they are each given a bone. No part of any animal is wasted.
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Thank you so much! They are the loveliest creatures.
Riding a five-ton elephant, whom she called ‘my brother’, chilling with a cheetah or hugging a giant bullfrog as if it were a Teddy bear. The childhood of a French girl Tippi Degre sounds more like a newer version of Mowgli, rather than something real. A white child, she was born in Namibia to …




