Playing with Cheetahs

Hello everyone, I think I mentioned in my previous post that we took a trip in December to Haartebeespoort where one of the many things we did was play with cheetahs. Now one of the few great things about living in South Africa is that we can have these encounters with many different animals. We have been fortunate enough to 'play' (and I use that term loosely 'cos you don't really play with them they play with you, you spend most of your time trying to get them to stop chewing on your shoes, jeans, toes and just about any other part of you they can get to)with tiger cubs, lion cubs, a baby Rhino, Serval cubs and even a baby crocodile, but my favourite by far was with the adult cheetahs. As we walked towards them they started purring and rubbing themselves against us, my son was petting one of them and when he pulled his hand away the cheetah wrapped his paw around my sons arm and would not let him go, so my son spent a good 15 more minutes petting him until the cheetah had had enough and let him go.