Baby meerkats

The event of the year on our farm happened in November, when one of the meerkats had three babies underneath the tools container! At the beginning, the little babies only poked their heads out around 6pm when it was cooler. Mommy would then pick them up by the back of their necks with her mouth and pull them back under to their “den”. 

Baby cheetah Cubby

On 17th November 2011, a baby cheetah was picked up from a farm located 100 kms away from Naankuse (Farm Lorraine). The farmer that gave him to us received him from another farm where his mother caused conflict with its cattle.

Scarlett the vervet monkey

Scarlett was given to us by the veterinary clinic in Windhoek. The vervet monkey grew up on a chain in the back yard of a family in town that kept her like their pet. 

Fly into a brighter future

The year on the farm ended with some very bad news. On the 30th of December, when we were going to bring in Picasso into the office as we have done every single afternoon since October 2008, he was nowhere to be found. We spent hours looking for him everywhere between all of us, but our beautiful African Grey had completely disappeared. The morning after, a volunteer saw him outside the farm area, but when he got closer, he opened up his wings and flew away into the horizon. 

We are very sad that Picasso is gone, he has been a loyal friend to all of us for a long time. We hope that he has found a new life in freedom or a new family to take care of him. We will miss you, Picasso.

New Cheetah Mum and Cubs

In October we received calls from two seperate farms in Namibia who had both captured a cheetah mother and 3 young cubs by accident and needed them to be relocated and given a safe home. 

Cheetah Care

Samira's Skin Infection

At the end of August, volunteers and staff noticed that our lovely Samira had some bad swelling on the left side of her face and neck which was growing each day and not only that, but she was starting to loose her fur in the same area. Given Samira's old age we were extremely worried and brought her in for a closer examination immediately. 

Implants for our female Wild Dogs

As our 13 male and female wild dog pups are reaching sexual maturity (which happens between the age of 12-18 months usually), we needed to implement measures to prevent the animals from breeding as breeding in captivity is illegal in Namibia. We had two options - either seperate the 8 females and 5 males by building a second camp, or giving the females contraceptives. We decided to keep the pack together and give contraceptive implants to the females. These are similar to a human form of contraceptive and take the form of a small implant which is inserted just underneath the skin.