Please become a conservation
partner and assist us by covering part or all of the annual costs for
caring for these non-releasable cheetahs. Each cheetah costs CCF an
estimated £2,500 a year in care. These costs include food, veterinary
care and pen maintenance.
If you sponsor the cost of
the care of a CCF non-releasable cheetah (of your choice!) for £100
or more, you will receive a personal letter of thanks and
a CCF sticker. If you sponsor a cheetah at any level, you'll receive
a link to a special web page containing up to date news from Namibia
including the latest on how our resident cheetahs are doing.
In addition, you can create
your own personalised Sponsorship Certificate to print out, and download
a special photo poster of your cheetah, taken from the official cheetah
ID book in Namibia.Each JPEG poster file is up
to 1MB in size and up to 250mm across, and shows pictures of the
cheetah, highlighting distinguishing markings for identification.
To create a Sponsorship Certificate,
download a poster, or access the latest cheetah news from Namibia,
be sure to click ‘Return to Merchant’ after you have
completed your PayPal transaction, or you will not see our ‘Thank
You’ page, which contains the information required.
If you sponsor a cheetah
for a whole year (£2,500) you will receive special recognition
at our headquarters in Namibia.
Sponsoring is simple! Just click
the 'Sponsor Me' button under any cheetah's story. You will
be taken to a PayPal secure payment page, where you can choose how
much you want to sponsor your cheetah for. Once you've sponsored one
cheetah, you can
come back and sponsor another one
if you wish. Here are four of our resident cheetahs. See the other
pages for more.
Harry
Harry and her two siblings, Ron and Hermione, came to CCF in
September 2005 from south of Otjiwarongo. CCF was called by a
farmer who had hand-captured two cheetah cubs with a third still
out in the bush by herself. The cubs were easily caught, due
to their young age and weak condition; it appeared that they
had lost their mother. Sadly, her fate remains unknown. The third
cub was caught a week later and reunited with her siblings. They
are healthy and adapting very well to their new surroundings
at CCF.
Harry is named after J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter character,
because when "she" arrived she had a small lightning-bolt-shaped
scratch under her right eye. She is very shy around people and
will wait until her siblings, Ron and Hermione, approach people
before joining in the fun. Harry is very golden in colour with
dark eyes and is only slightly smaller than her brother, Ron.
Ron
Ron and his two sisters, Harry
and Hermione, came to CCF in September 2005 from south of Otjiwarongo.
CCF was called by a farmer who had hand-captured two cheetah
cubs with a third still out in the bush by herself. The cubs
were easily caught, due to their young age and weak condition;
it appeared that they had lost their mother. Sadly, her fate
remains unknown. The third cub was caught a week later and reunited
with her siblings. They are healthy and adapting very well to
their new surroundings at CCF.
Ron is named after one of the
characters in the popular books by J.K. Rowling and although
he appears to be the most aggressive, he is the most gentle of
the three siblings, so long as there is a meat treat involved.
He is the most dominant, and often chases his sisters around
the pen for play, preferring to chase them than chasing lures.
Ron's distinguishing marks are his kinked tail and almond-shaped
eyes, which are a very light amber colour. He has a very laid-back
personality and is very well behaved.
Hermione
Hermione and her two siblings, Ron and Harry, came to CCF in
September 2005 from south of Otjiwarongo. CCF was called by a
farmer who had hand-captured two cheetah cubs with a third still
out in the bush by herself. The cubs were easily caught, due
to their young age and weak condition; it appeared that they
had lost their mother. Sadly, her fate remains unknown. The third
cub was caught a week later and reunited with her siblings. They
are healthy and adapting very well to their new surroundings
at CCF.
Hermione is named after one of the characters in the popular
books by J.K. Rowling and is the smallest and darkest of the
three siblings...and the most playful. She has a small teddy
bear face and big dark eyes, by far the cutest of the three.
She is very gentle by nature, but not as much as her brother
Ron. She tends to follow Ron's lead during feeding. Hermione
is the most social and will chase her brother and sister around
the pen even though she is much smaller. She is an instigator,
but able to hold her own.
Athos
Athos, and his brothers, D'Artagnan and Porthos, were about
eight months old when they arrived at CCF after their mother,
one sibling and two other adults were shot. The three cubs are
inseparable, and it was inevitable they would become named after
the brave fictional "Three Musketeers" characters.
Athos puts up a brave and entertaining show at feeding time.
Naturally shy, he puts on a fierce face. With a fuzzy little
growl, he tries to convince you he's not intimidated at all.
Porthos
Porthos, and his brothers, Athos and D'Artagnan were about eight
months old when they arrived at CCF after their mother, one sibling
and two other adults were shot. The three cubs are inseparable,
and it was inevitable they would become named after the brave
fictional "Three Musketeers" characters.
Porthos always hangs out with his brothers, Athos and D'Artagnan.
Like his brother D'Artagnan, Porthos is very shy, grabbing his
food and dashing to the far side of the enclosure before eating.
D'Artagnan
D'Artagnan, and his brothers, Athos and Porthos were about eight
months old when they arrived at CCF after their mother, one sibling
and two other adults were shot. The three cubs are inseparable,
and it was inevitable they would become named after the brave
fictional "Three Musketeers" characters.
D'Artagnan is the clown prince of the musketeers. He is very
shy and wants nothing to do with people. Even at feeding time
he approaches his bowl reluctantly and tries to grab a hold of
his meat without taking his eyes off the scary humans. On one
occasion, his bowl was located next to the water bowl and, thinking
he was grabbing dinner, instead got a face full of water.