A dog protecting wild cats?
Not tame cats, as this is a Serval cat!
We were at the Cheetah sanctuary and so glad to see that they also care for other cat species.
These were all hand-reared and of course when they were no longer small and cute kittens, they were sent to the sanctuary.
Being hand-reared spoiled any chance that they may have had to survive in the wild and instead they are all employed as ambassadors of the conservation projects at the sanctuary.
Come meet the cats!
The serval even licks himself like a house cat!
And this is the young Anatolia dog on duty to guard the cats.
This is an old house and the offices of the sanctuary.
In a glass case is the skeleton of a cheetah!
Here we have a full description why the cheetah is the fastest land animal
Cheetah preparing to rush for his daily bone. Too fast for me to get his jump!
Never go close to a cheetah at lunch time!
He decided to keep an eye on me.
These guys can clock 75 kms on the run.
Ah! My favorite cat, the Caracal. They are related to the Lynx!
His teeth used to be much longer, but he was showing me that he's seen a dentist recently!
Here you can see the size of the caracal!
Another look at Ntombi, the black backed jackal that I featured in a previous post!
Another look at the young Anatolia dog.
One thing that I seriously dislike is when parents buy their children a cute little rabbit, or a puppy, kitten etcetera for their birthday.
As soon as the animal starts growing it gets pushed aside and dumped.
These little creatures are vulnerable, and at the mercy of the people in whose hands they find themselves. Do they manage to have owners who truly love and care for them, or do they have masters who keep them trapped with no other place to go?
How many children, adults and elderly are trapped by other people? Do they find themselves in places where others truly love and care for them, or are they discarded? How do we know? Our charity works with many of these children and adults.
To adopt tame animals is one thing, but to take an animal out of the wild and "tame" it is cruel; as said animal receives a death-sentence when they are dumped. Simply because they cannot survive on their own in the wild.
Please think before you get an animal.
NOTE: For more information about wild cats across the globe please visit this link;
https://bigcatswildcats.com/serval/
Hope you have enjoyed the photos, and thank you for visiting a post by @papilloncharity
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Very nice pictures and information with all of them. It is sad when folks buy the pets and discard them when it's not convenient. I see that a lot with regular dogs and cats; if it's wild.........leave it wild! Thanks for sharing.
Wow! So many types of 'cat'!
Thank you my friend and definitely some African cats.
Blessings!
those are impressive cats!! I don't like it at all when people try to raise wild animals as pets. I had a friend who had some big cats - don't remember what they were - but nobody wanted to go and visit her anymore. It felt dangerous and I think it was.
Thank you and so true my friend.
My heart tears when I see a longing wild animal walking up and down next to the fence of a wired cage. So very cruel.
There are so many cases in the news about wild "pets" that attack their owners, or their friends.
So sad.
Blessings!
Really great that they roam around free. Don’t know many people who have pets here though.
Wild "pet" owners are all over the world my friend and normally they keep them to impress their friends.
Wild animals belong in the wild.
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Lovely post- absolutely lovely pictures. And your concern for animals
Thank you Vibi.
Glad that you liked it and thank you for the kind words!
Blessings!
Ah yes, we have yet another rescue dog in our house waiting for adoption. This one was given as a gift to a young lady who, once he got away and was found, never went to get him. He is now a 9 month old german-shepard mix who is all puppy and has never been taught manners or that humans are not the same as dogs. He wants to get everything and play with us as he would other puppies his size. Our lab and our little dog don't know what to do with him, because his playing is too much for them. I don't believe in hell, but I surely wished it existed and the folks who gifted this dog to that young lady would end up there. Someday he will make a great companion, but for now we call him the Hell Hound!
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Don't keep this against me my friend, but I love your "Hell Hound"
With his German shepherd blood, he is intelligent enough to be trained.
Not like my dumb Staffie "Max" that demolished my car's rubber inserts on its bumpers, or my other fierce dog "Dingo", half Doberman and half Rottweiler that ripped my brand new sneakers apart.
Such is life I presume.
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I to really dislike people who buy pets for The theirs kid Sona whim and then ditch them when it becomes extra work for them since th ids shave now moved onto the next want
And last as much of a dislike is people who buy animals thats should be tin the wild and try to raise them as pets and then want to release them back and of course ther eis o way they would survive without sanctuaries like this
As for. Cheetah i would never wat to get to close to one at anytime LOL
I agree with you JJ.
Taking animals out of the wild is a curse.
Poaching is a curse.
Mistreating animals is a curse.
We are but phantoms in this world and whatever we gather we shall leave behind.
So many don't understand this and they continue to try and satisfy their worldly wants. to the detriment of anybody, or anything else.
Blessings!
Great
Kat's r funny
YEs those are all curses for sure and even in my mind hunting for sport is a curse, I did hunt a couple of times back in NEw eland but with a crossbow and only to get deer that we then Skinned and ate, and I think I only ever got one.
NOw I only shoot with a camera :)
all of them are Beautiful animals and very fast too. Awesome photographs @papilloncharity . have a nice day..
Thank you my friend!
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My goodness, the muscles on those cats are extraordinary @papilloncharity! Love the watch dog, my daughter has a dog which is an anatolia mix and she is wonderful, so loving but such a watchdog! Our state has become the victim of cast of animals, reptiles, snakes, fish etc which have become invasive and are depleting the native animals. Now we have to employ people to remove them before everything is gone...not a good situation. You're right, we shouldn't buy "cute little animals" which aren't meant to be pets! Great shots my friend, blessings!
Thank you my friend.
Can you believe that the Serval's can jump 10 meters high.
Many years ago on the farm, I watched a Lynx take a dove with one jump out of a high tree.
Cast off animals? You mean that these are unwanted exotic pets?
Nothing can hurt the ecological balance of nature more than introducing foreign animals, reptiles, or insects into it.
We currently have a strange worm from Asia here that are decimating the 100 year old oak trees.
I certainly feel for your problem over there.
So sad.