incandescent-justice:claricechiarasorcha:meggannn:how can ppl say cats are heartless tbhI once staye
incandescent-justice:claricechiarasorcha:meggannn:how can ppl say cats are heartless tbhI once stayed at a game reserve in South Africa, and they had three cheetahs – two males and one female. The boys stuck together (they were brothers), but female cheetahs are solitary, save for when they are raising cubs. Which is hard work for cheetahs, because they don’t/can’t den, she’s working constantly to protect/move her cubs, as well as feeding both them and herself.Now, these cheetahs ARE in a private reserve, but they’re still essentially wild. But they are more or less accustomed to the presence of people. And this cheetah, Ketswiri, got very badly injured in her leg one time, which usually would be fatal to a cheetah. The staff at the reserve helped her. Another time, she was starving, and they provided her a fresh antelope carcass. And she remembered this, because the science officer was telling us how one time he was watching Ketswiri and her cubs, and she wandered over and dumped all her cubs at his feet, and walked off. Like “watch my kids, I need some me time.” And he was panicking like COME BACK I CAN’T BABYSIT YOUR KIDS WTFI adore the Cheetah story ❤️When we got Demeter, she was five months old and already pregnant. Never been touched by a human until the farmer’s wife grabbed her and put her in a box to bring her to us. About a month later, we’d just moved house, and she’s snuggled up in bed under @girlonabridge ‘s knees - little did girlonabridge realise, she was nesting… but lo and behold, at something like 3am in the morning, madam starts giving birth. Under girlonabridge’s knees. Later, we moved her, kittens, and their box, downstairs. Not long after that, we found abandoned kittens variously on the route back upstairs to our bedroom - yup - she was determined their home was in our bed. (She just lacked something on the carrying malarkey. She would drop one, not realise she’d dropped it, realise her mouth was empty, and head back downstairs to get the next one.) And none of them ever forgot it - our bed was always ‘home’. -- source link