Sponsor a cheetah

The Cheetah Enclosure – 8

Choose a resident cheetah to sponsor

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 you will receive two updates during a year (please provide an e-mail address for updates if other than yours). You can also 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. IMPORTANT: If you want the sponsorship to be a gift, be sure to note this using the Message to Seller facility on the main PayPal payment screen.

To create a Sponsorship Certificate or download a poster, 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.

Pick a cheetah - there are eight different pages:

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 five of our resident cheetahs. See the other pages for more.

Anakin

"I came to CCF in April 2008 along with my mom, who had been caught by a farmer who had seen her hunt his sheep. I was named after the character ‘Anakin Skywalker’ from the movie Star Wars, the Jedi knight who would become Darth Vader. Why you may ask? Well, firstly, I have a very dark appearance and when my keepers went to feed me and my mom, I'd always be very protective and stand in front of her, making mymself look big, hissing and slapping my paws on the ground. In the movie, Anakin Skywalker was also very protective of his mother and had plenty of attitude so my keepers felt the name fitted me perfectly!"

Anakin’s mother had a very bad knee injury and CCF’s veterinary team carried out several operations to fix it, in the hope she could recover and look after Anakin until adulthood. Sadly her knee injury never healed and she was put to sleep in September 2008.

Loosing his mother at such a young age must have been a very traumatic time for Anakin, fortunately however, around the same time we had 2 other young cubs arrive, a brother and sister who we thought would be perfect pen mates for Anakin. To continue the Star-Wars theme the new arrivals were named Obe-Wan and Padme and when all 3 were placed together they got on famously and formed quite a bond. When they reach maturity Padme will have to be moved to a different enclosure with other females, but Anakin and Obe-Wan will remain together and hopefully remain best friends.

Obe-Wan

"I am over a year old and came to CCF with my sister Padme in September 2008. We had been trapped by a farmer who kept us for two months with the aim of capturing our mom. However, mom never showed and CCF were called to collect us."

Upon arrival at CCF Obe-Wan and Padme were placed in an enclosure with another of our orphaned cubs, Anakin, and they got on very well. Anakin was named after a character from the Star Wars movies and so explains the inspiration for naming Obe-Wan. Initially when their keepers went to feed them Obe-Wan hid behind his sister and let her perform her intimidating hissing and paw slapping display. However, he has soon learned from his sister and has become a very feisty character indeed, always charging up to his keepers demanding his food!

However, as the 3 cubs are quickly reaching maturity it will become necessary to separate brother and sister. Therefore, Anakin and Obe-Wan will soon be moved into an enclosure housing two of our young males, Chester and Omdillo. It is hoped that the four will accept each other and form a coalition. Chester and Omdillo are feisty characters themselves but after having such a good training from his sister we are confident Anakin and Obe-Wan will hold their own.

Padme

"I was almost one year old when I came to CCF with my brother Obe-Wan in September 2008. We had been trapped by a farmer who kept us for two months with the aim of capturing our mother. However, our mom never showed and CCF were called to collect us."

Upon arrival at CCF Padme and Obe-Wan were placed in an enclosure with another of our orphaned cubs, Anakin, and they got on very well. Anakin was named after a character from the Star Wars movies and so explains the inspiration for naming Padme.

Initially when their keepers went to feed them, Obe-Wan hid behind his sister and let her perform her intimidating hissing and paw slapping display. However, Padme soon taught her brother how to act tough and they are now both very feisty characters indeed, always charging up to their keepers demanding their food!

However, as the 3 cubs quickly reached maturity, it became necessary to separate brother and sister. Therefore, Padme was moved into an enclosure with little Bella. Padme is a very confident cheetah that holds her own and may even teach Bella a thing or two about how to act tough!

Ombdillo

"Before coming to CCF in January 2008, I was kept on a farm in very poor conditions, when CCF staff went to collect me they found me in an old aviary that was covered with bones and faeces as it was so small no one could enter to clean it. I can't tell how long I spent in these conditions, however it was long enough for me to completely loose my fear of people which unfortunately means I can not be re-released into the wild. "

The word ‘omdillo' means fire in Swahili and is an extremely suitable name for CCF's biggest and boldest cheetah weighing in at 47kgs and estimated to be around 3 years old. Omdillo has become one of CCF's biggest characters and all the keepers are most cautious off as he runs and jumps at the fence, smacking it with his paws and spitting. Omdillo currently shares his enclosure with another feisty young male called Chester who looks up to Omdillo like a big brother. Chester is fast learning from Omdillo and makes quite the effort to act just as big and tough, although he has some way to go before he matches Omdillo's virtuoso displays.

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