The Milgis Trust

Category: Cheetahs | Date: Jan 31 2009 | By: milgistrust

Its shocking news to all of us and I’m afraid I am having a hard time telling you all, this bit of news, because it was the happiest young animal, and his beautiful little life was cut short by a snake…. We never left him alone, there was somebody always with it… He/she, we never worked it out!, but had many discussions about it!,was playing in the grass below the mess and ‘booum’ he met this snake, we have absolutely no idea what kind of snake but it had a lot of poison in those fangs… The little cub was dead in ten minutes bleeding from his foot, and nose…. It was very quick… What I presume happened is.. when the cheetah got hurt, he used to get very very angry and go for what ever hurt it, so I think he was bitten more than once… WE ARE ALL VERY VERY SAD.. That cub had a character larger than an elephant, the bravery of a lion, the vocabulary to beat any human… The only time it was silent was when it was sleeping!… Even the warriors [See picture below] had come round to thinking … This is a very special animal… and kept on asking me… Is this a dog or a cat!??.. Remember in my original blog about the arrival of this cub, I was warned not to leave it in the care of the warriors!!… But in the end they even had a way of calling it and it would come running from where ever.. He went with them every where… Oh well… What this little cheetah can say.. is it did alot in its short sweet life… amongst other things survived an attack by dogs, a ride on a motor bike, a little high speed ‘flight’ off a cliff, about 15 feet high, he did hurt his leg, but it didn’t stop him…. And for sure who ever had the pleasure of meeting him was charmed!!…