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. 

Farewell Old Friend

Tessa the Dog, November 2001 – September 2011

It was with great sadness that we had to say goodbye to one of the first animals to arrive at N/a’an ku se.