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. 

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.

Animal Welfare

Our gorgeous caracal Godiva has been in the wars with feisty Yoda and suffered a broken front leg as a result. After an operation where they inserted pins to keep the bones in place together, Godiva wore a bandage and has been kept seperate from the others while she heals. Now Yoda had demonstrated his wild instincts, we're looking into whether he can be released back into the wild.