Night 3: Sleeping Inside A Cheetah Enclosure With Two Adult Big Cats - Cat Sucks Thumb Chews Ear
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I spent 10 nights sleeping inside a Cheetah enclosure with two adults; setting up camp inside a concrete box in their territory. This was an experiment to see how Cheetah behavior differs from daylight activities and it turned out as one of the most incredible experiences of my life. I hope to make people rethink all their preconceptions about Cheetahs with my overall efforts. Things they won't read in a book, or see visiting a zoo, or watching on Nature Programs like Nat Geo Wild. It will take years.
These two females were bred and hand raised at this Cheetah Breeding facility called Cheetah Experience in South Africa. I spent four days getting to know them first and letting them get to know me before spending any nights inside their concrete Cheetah box. They were surprisingly nice; even more so at night than during the day. Cheetahs are diurnal rather than nocturnal which means they hunt during the day rather than night. As a result, their moods were relaxed. Their thoughts were not about food or hunger, but relaxation and rest.
In this episode, I showcase some of their repetitive behaviors these two amazing Cheetahs did every night. I include behavior like Eden's insistent and addictive grooming, love biting, snuggling and cuddling, purring, how they positioned themselves around me every time, nibbling, biting, chewing my ear and sucking my thumb and how they began treating me exactly like I was another Cheetah but with a higher level of trust and respect.
Both Cheetahs behaved the same way (in their own way) every night. Eden would insist on grooming me while Faith just liked to snuggle up close to me. Both spent the first 20 minutes grooming, purring, nibbling, biting, and then Eden would grab something to pacify herself to sleep.
Grooming is a very social thing Cheetahs do and it serves to not only clean up fur, but spread their scent on you so that you become their property. When they groom you, they are saying hey, look at him/her... I'm proud to let the world know that you belong to me.
Grooming definitely gives them pleasure. These two love it and Eden is addicted to it. I let them groom me because they liked it so much and it helped in my relationship with them. Cheetahs and cats prefer grooming hair. But their sharp spined tongues hurt bad enough to make me bleed. Trying to block Eden with my hands had limited effect as she would push my hands out of the way to get to my scalp.
Eden also liked love biting and I show her ear nibbling fetish she has. She stops purring and begins biting my ear, raking it with her teeth! It hurt but not as bad as her tongue grooming. I finally figured out to let her pacify herself to calm her down with my thumb. She also would bite my arm and hand and hold it while purring herself to contentment. They both behaved very much like domesticated cats because they do this as well.
On the final episode of Sleeping Inside A Cheetah Enclosure, I show more interesting behavior to include jealousy, night hunting, more purring, biting, sleeping, and my conclusions about all of it and why I think they behaved the way they did. I was a center of their attention and I reveal why I think that was.
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