Cheetahs are not friendly towards us, however, they don’t want to mess with us either. Cheetahs are quite shy and docile for a big cat. However, if you look at the environment it lives in and the neighbors it has to share it with, you might understand why Cheetahs have to constantly compete with animals such as Lions, Leopards, hyenas, baboons, et cetera.
All of these could critically injure or even outright kill the Cheetah if it’s not careful. Cheetahs have sacrificed strength, retractable, claws and other crucial things a cat should have for the sake of a body that can handle all that speed it possesses.
Cheetahs can never really eat their prey at ease because animals such as Hyenas have adapted and learned that it can easily bully a cheetah away from its fresh kill. Cheetahs live a life in constant stress, especially mother Cheetahs. With Cubs, at least male Cheetahs usually travel in groups.
The saddest thing is that Cheetah Cubs have the highest death rate out of any other baby animals on Earth, which sucks because Cheetahs are quite adorable creatures. Even as adults. They’re not in the Panther family tree, so they can’t roar. Only Lions, Tigers, Leopards and Jaguars can, but they can squeak, Meow, Pearl or snarl just like a normal house cat. Anyway, Cheetahs would rather flee from a conflict than try to stand up to something it knows it can’t handle.
And we as humans are on that list. We’re big and aggressive. Two things that Cheetahs don’t like. However, Cheetah attacks have happened in the past. However, unlike Lions, Tigers, Leopards, etc.
E, I’ve never heard of a cheetah attack that’s ended in a human death. I could be wrong about that though, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they’ve never killed us considering they have more lengthy and fragile body in comparison to the muscular body of a lion, in addition to the fact that Cheetahs would rather make love, not war. So if you see a cheetah in the wild, it’ll most likely do nothing or run away in fear. However, don’t provoke it. It’s still a wild animal and they’re quite unpredictable.
Maybe this particular Cheetah actually has the guts to take you down. However, there’s always a great story behind every great friendship out of box. This woman lived in the wild world and had a great touch with this predator. No one knows how the story begins. Some said that this girl wore a costume during her journey in South Africa, and since that moment they had a very close dance.
An animal lover who gets up close and personal with Cheetahs loves the creatures so much she’s helped to save her best friend from being sold and turned into a stuffed trophy. Intimate pictures show how this blonde cat lover, Heather Chuki, 23, from Beckonham and Kent, hugs, plays with and even kisses the predator full on the snout. Heather, who has volunteered at South Africa’s. Cheetah Experience, since she was just 18 years old, has formed particularly close bonds with two Cheetahs called Dew and Eden. When Dew comes towards me, she loves to groom me by kissing me.
It looks very sweet, but it’s actually the most painful thing. Her tongue is so rough and she insists on kissing me all over until I can’t take it anymore. Eden loves to go on walks in the valve to explore new sights and smells or enrichment with her favorite toys. Our bond is so strong I do sleep outside with her in another Chia, Faith at night in their enclosure. This is my favorite thing to do in the whole world.
Take my blanket and pillow to a spot under the trees, lie down and wait for them to come over and cuddle in for the night under the stars. It’s totally on their terms and not forced at all. Eden likes to sleep as close as possible to me, often leaning her head on mine and entangling her legs with me and giving me a good wash with her sandpaper tongue.
Faith normally lies by my pillow now, then purse so much that the whole blanket vibrates until they both fall silently asleep. Then come sunrise, the roar of the Lions will wake us up and Eden will greet me good morning with more kisses before I have to start work for the day.
However much they love the felines in their care, Cheetah Experience do not own all the animals in their care and to the dismay of the organization and volunteers, the owner of four Cheetahs wants to sell them to the highest bidder instead of allowing her best friends to be sold and potentially killed for sport.
Heather raised over £5000 to save her pale due through donations sent to her by a Just Giving webpage. While two of the other Cheetahs were saved by money raised by her fellow volunteers, the fourth was saved when Cheetah Experience owner Rihanna Van Neuron collected enough funds to keep it. They are loved and cared for so much it would have broken my heart for these Cheetahs to end up in the wrong hands, said Heather. Selling cats for hunting is rife in South Africa.
We had caused a fear that at auction these Cheetahs would end up in the hands of potential hunters. Therefore, I took the initiative to raise the money for Ce to purchase the Cheetahs before they were taken to auction with a lot of help from friends, family and other volunteers from around the world. The fundraising page was flooded with donations and shares on social media and we were able to raise the money within just 30 days to save the Cheetahs from this unknown and most likely deadly fate. They will now forever live at Cheetah Experience. It’s amazing what you can achieve with the United Love for Animals.
Heather keeps returning to Cheetah Experience to volunteer after developing a bond with the animals there. To have the strongest of bonds between a wild animal and a human is amazing. It’s such a different bond to those that you have with your pet dog or cat at home, she said. I know it’s so rare and special to spend time and look after these animals. The best way to develop a relationship with these animals is not to force it.
I’ve been lucky that over the years I’ve been a part of many of the Cheetah’s lives growing up and have spent a lot of time with them and taking care of them. The most important thing is respect. We respect their space and behavior and in return we gain their respect for us. They slowly come closer and closer to me to get used to my smell, my voice and so on. Every time I return to the project, this bond becomes stronger as they always remember me and often come running over to greet me with kisses and purring.
Cheetah Experience is a big cat center that was founded in 2006 with the longterm goal of breeding Cheetahs. They also want to introduce a new Cheetah bloodline. Their intention is to release them back into a protected wild where they’ll be interfered with as little as possible by humans, yet they still be monitored closely by vets and researchers in order to gain better insight into the lives of these animals. Their personality was very similar to dogs they love to stalk, but because the Cheetah does not have a cat type claw, there’s little risk when they jump on you. We never, ever had a threatening moment involving their teeth or mouth.
They were always delighted to see us and would play in the huge field adjacent to where they were kept on John Kilvert’s huge boat. But they’re not aggressive towards humans either. Cheetahs are past hunters, but they shy away from every conflict. They often give away their prey to a hyena instead of fighting for it because the hyena is an aggressive animal and the Cheetah is not. It’s just hunting for food.
Humans are too big and too aggressive that Cheetahs would consider as prey. They do prefer their prey to run away and not fight back. If they feel threatened, they’ll always have the impulse to run away. That’s a very successful strategy for them. But if they feel threatened by you and they cannot run away, then you’ll figure out that they’re not so friendly towards humans.
After all, you’re not purposely trying to scare them or make them feel threatened, so they won’t do that to you either. As long as you’re respectful of their territory and don’t disturb them or make the animal feel uncomfortable or threatened, it most likely won’t do that. Back to you. Different animals have different temperaments. Some are more adaptable to dealing with humans than others.
Some have evolved that way over thousands of years. Others seem to be born with it. For instance, the first hamsters raised in captivity were bred in the and have become a popular pet. They didn’t require thousands of years of evolution to adapt to humans. Like dogs, we tend to divide animals into wild and domestic.
But some livestock has far greater danger to humans Than some wild animals. Cheetahs, for whatever reason, have proven to be more adaptable to life with humans Than any other big cat. Cheetahs are the bane of small ungulates, but not of humans. They do not prey on people and simply do not attack anything that’s not on their menu Unless it is to defend their babies. An adult Cheetah without little ones will just run away if somehow cornered, they can dish out serious injuries.
But in all written history, There has not been a single instance of a cheetah killing a person. Attempting to force our presence on a wild Cheetah Will be more frustrating than dangerous. They prefer not to have us around and with a few strides, can leave us far behind. No human and no land animal can run as fast as a cheetah. Cheetahs are less aggressive compared to Lions and Tigers.
A lion can attack a person and might eat it Because they are predators, While Cheetahs may scratch or bite Because they’re defending themselves. As I recall, I watched a documentary on wild animals as a pet and they said the exact same thing feeding Cheetahs people feed them cooked or raw chicken as far as I know. When I asked a couple of people who kept Cheetahs as pets when taming Cheetahs, they told me, you never, ever hit it. You pet it gently, don’t pet it when it’s mad and don’t bring the food to it. Make it come to you so they know you’re the one providing it with food.
Other than that, they’re very lovable creatures. Cheetahs would be reasonably good pets if such a life were helpful for them. Ancient royalty used to keep them as the most awesome hunting cats. A single Cheetah could run any small game down and catch it in captivity. They’re very loving of their humans, just like house cats, they purr, rub their heads on people and like to cuddle.
One problem for us is that when they lick us, Their prickly tongues can cause bruising and even draw little blood from our naked skins. The relationship is much worse for them to be healthy, they have to be able to run like the wind. Few people can regularly provide them with that opportunity.
More than anything, we should protect their environment and keep poachers from murdering them So that these fabulous cats can survive in their natural homes. What a great relationship could a person ever have with a wild animal?