Cheetah Conservation Fund

Category: Cheetah - General, Cheetahs | Date: Jul 12 2009 | By: cheetahconservation

We had some sad news recently. One of the female cheetahs that had a satellite collar on for the past year was found dead in a fence– very strange — she was caught around her waist – and she has four cubs, so we picked her up a few days ago and went down today to set a trap to try to catch the cubs, estimated at around 4 months’ old. The four cubs were caught  – three yesterday and one this morning. We worked on them all today ~ 3 months of age – 1 female 3 males – we will name the female Polly and one of the males Tony.

One of the males had a huge gash in his shoulder and we had to stitch him up – they have all now eaten and are settling in – we have a lot of work now to get them settled.

A couple of weeks ago we spent hours in Otji with operation on Leia – more infection with her teeth (not healed from last month) – she was in pretty critical care in the clinic but now is eating on her own and doing much better. However, Leia is in end-stage renal failure and it will only be a matter of time (and probably not that long – she is 13 years old).

Our EarthWAtch group leaves tomorrow – and much to do as our gala in next Saturday.

Finally, we are trying to raise US$50,000 by the end of August to celebrate Chewbaaka’s 14th birthday. Every donation received by the 31st August will be matched dollar for dollar. Please visit our web site to donate at www.cheetah.org.

Laurie

PS - Thank you so much for all your support. In addition to a very kind monthly donor, we have received a couple of additional donations lately that truly are appreciated.