Big Move for Cheetah Experience!!

Thanks to Your help and support, we are happy to announce that our volunteer room has been built. Now that summer is almost here, it is really nice to have a place where the volunteers can just chill for a little bit and have a break during the day. We also start our days at the volunteer room with the staff meting then the volunteer meeting. The volunter room has everything the volunteers need: coffee, tea & sugar for the mornings, a fridge where they can keep their drinks cold during the day and lockers where they can keep their bags safe.

However, we are still busy with building the lion house and an enclosure for our new family members: Blaze and Shailoh. At the begining of September we were very busy organising an emergency re-homing of Blaze and Shailoh. Due to circumstances out of the facilities control, the animals lives were at risk from outside factors in their current home. The facility had to make the difficult decision to close their doors and safely relocate their animals. Shailoh the cape leopard and Blaze the mountain lion have lived together since they were cubs and the two best friends will remain together.

Blaze and Shailoh were in a smaller temporary area awaiting the building of their permanant enclosure. We had been waiting for them to settle in, gain confidence, feel secure and safe before swapping areas with Cosmo. Moving the cats around allows for them to experience new smells and sights, it is a great form of enrichment. Now that they have settled in, we hve a chance to swap them in every few days. Shailoh and Blaze have lots of trees to climb and explore, while Cosmo has the chance to read the scent markings and get to know his neighbours better!

Their new enclosure has been costed up and we will need to raise R200,000, unfortunately the cost of materials increased due to covid, so things are more expensive now. We are currently fundraising to build Blaze and Shailoh their own permanant enclosure, our fundraiser currently stands at just over R82,000.00! This is incredible and means that we can already begin to purchase materials and start the building process. But we are still in need for funds to be able to finish building their new forever home. We would be grateful if you could share our fundraiser link with your friends and family, every small donation counts!

At last but not at least, we wouldlike to say a BIG THANK YOU for your continous support, we can not express enough how much we appriciate it. Without YOU, we wouldn't be able to do so many thing for our animals. 

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