More walkies!

Well today was another day of fun and time with the cats!

Today we had to just feed the 3 younger cats in the main camp,  dew,  eden and faith.  They didn't seem that keen on eating this morning so anything they leave they finish off in the evening.  We then took them for a walk.  My first time walking the cheetahs and boy what a laugh.  I opted to walk faith. She wasn't that interested in going anywhere until we got her out the camp but then you couldn't stop her.   Bearing in mind the speed these cats,  fully grown,  can run and the acceleration equivalent to a Lamborghini,  you can visualise that it was more the cats taking us for a walk.  Faith is so funny when she runs,  but she actually runs better than she walks,  she just goes from a to b via c,  d and e and then can stop so just collapses on the flor,  all the while purring!

Last week everyone was paired up and given an animal to research enrichment ideas for.   Today was the turn of the other Chris and Keal  to enrich the leopards.   A very simple idea of cardboard boxes with leaves and twigs.   We put them in their enclosure and release them.  They went crazy! Just like a house cat,  leopards love boxes! They were ripped to shreds in seconds! Tomorrow i will hopefully get the chance to put my enrichment plans for the servals and caracals in place... More about then when it happens.

We had 4 new arrivals today too so we did the introductions and they were placed in their teams.

This afternoon i moved from cats to computers and gave Rene a hand sorting out a laptop and her phone,  this may be a few days work and some of the volunteers joked that you should never let on any skill you have... All in jest of course but i don't mind! I'm also putting together a programme to help them store, and generate reports from,  the data collected during the hourly observations.

We had another fun trip to the supermarket today to stock up on beer and snacks! It seems we're all going crazy for chocolate at the moment!

You may recall the other night i slept with gabriel,  tonight it gets even more exciting.  Armed with a pillow,  sleeping bag and warm clothes,  tonight I'm sleeping out under stars with eden and faith.   Apparently  eden likes to steal the pillow and faith has a tendency to fall on you and then fall a sleep.  I'm very excited.  These girls are almost a year old so much bigger than gabriel but nowhere near as mischievous.   Eden however is the loudest purrer (is that even a word?)  check tomorrow for the update.

I'll leave you now as its time to eat.  I hope everyone is well, I also just want to send out my love to the family tonight as i had an update from Mum earlier that my nana is really ill... She's been suffering for a long time now with bad chest infections,  urine infections and on top of that,  92 years old and suffering dimentia.

Good night everyone
Chris x