Too high expectations.

Too high expectations.

We have been looking forward to the Cheetah Outreach for weeks. When we got there, admission was suddenly cheaper, 5 rand instead of 10 - no idea why.

However, there were only a few signs on the large cages with the dogs. At the beginning a larger cage on the left with a young herding dog (alone), then three cages with servals (whatever, it said Ambassador for Servals. Three cages?), A caracal (young animal, one year old, doesn't know if he's up the food waited or was behavioral), a cage with two large dogs (as far as possible from the cheetahs), then a cage with meerkats (whatever) and one with turtles. Next to it a relatively small cage with two jackals (for what?).

At the entrance you were immediately advised of the petting. What was not said, was that the little ones were already 12 months old and therefore almost fully grown. In any case, groups of visitors were then led to many cheetahs in small cages, one time laying on of hands, smiling, photo. We didn't see the runway, not even from the platform, but it didn't look like the "racetrack" was really big. Instead, the guardians patted the cats and gave them kisses.

All in all, we had expected it differently: instead of a lot of education about the program and how to train dogs, there was cheetah entertainment. Yes, stroking would be ok for me, but if the program itself were in the foreground. But it doesn't feel like it.

To put it brutally: I felt like a couple of well-off white women (women) who have turned their hobby into a profession and can cuddle with big cats.