"I sleep with the cheetahs. Really."

[Nevilledog]

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South African forest guard would tell his bosses he slept in the cheetah enclosure. They didn’t believe him and set up a camera…


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9:16 AM · Feb 5, 2022

[sinkingfeeling]

1. What a beautiful, warm blanket.

[Farmer-Rick]

2. Wow, that is so amazing

Those big dangerous animals all cuddling up with their guard.

[3catwoman3]

3. A 10 lb cat on your blanket feels like a 50 lb...

…kettle bell. 4 cheetahs would really pin you down for the night.

So touching how they snuggle up to him. He and they are obviously quite accustomed to the nocturnal ritual.

[Probatim]

14. Inertia Cats. That's what I call them.

I've got a 20 pound orange tabby. If he sleeps on you, you can forget about moving until he's awake.

[CloudWatcher]

4. source video ...

From the sound track in the original video, it doesn't sound like this is a usual thing. He mentions that he didn't get a good night's sleep.

Reuters fact check ...

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-cheetahs-south-africa-not-i-idUSKBN2A22OY

The park

https://www.cheetahexperience.com

[niyad]

10. They are clearly cousins to my lap panther. That is exactly what we do every night.

[denbot]

5. Wow, now that's a cool job.

Dangerous, and I'm guessing the money's awful, but what a priceless way to earn your daily bread.

[Phoenix61]

6. Cheetahs are really, really fast

“As a result, they are very lightweight, and aren't built to fight large and aggressive animals. It is very uncommon that cheetahs will attack humans. It very uncommon that cheetahs attack humans. Only a few nonfatal attacks happen each year, and those are almost always the result of aggravated cheetahs in captivity.Jul 13, 2020“
I’ve seen video of them jumping on safari trip jeeps and just chilling out.

[Ocelot II]

15. They are the most docile of the big cats and are easily tamed.

In Egypt, Persia and India, they were trained to hunt.

[SunSeeker]

7. It doesn't look like he gets a lot of uninterrupted sleep.

But what better way to make sure they're not poached at night than to sleep with them?

[Phoenix61]

8. I am jealous beyond belief. nt

[LudwigPastorius]

9. It's a big kitteh pile!

[BootinUp]

11. I wish him well, and some intervention, lol. nt

[keithbvadu2]

12. Then they wake you up for breakfast and walk across your forehead?

Cat licked my eyelid one morning.

That'll wake you up.

[edbermac]

13. "I sleep with the Cheetos. Really."

[Grokenstein]

16. They aren't pets, but when treated with respect

...cheetahs can be very docile, even affectionate. Unfortunately, some do keep them as pets, which should be universally illegal, even for the inbred wealthy inheritor class. (I have no quarrel with people who take care of rescue animals and other cases which cannot be rehabilitated into the wild, such as Luna the Pantera, or the folks at I_Am_Puma looking after Messi despite the unwarranted flack they frequently get.)

[Duppers]

17. I've been following Messi, the cougar

On YT for yrs. Great cat and ppl.

[Emile]

18. Why?