cheetah games

cheetah games in the trees

Magda wrote:-
"Japie bought the cheetah at an auction near Bloemfontein and we plan to keep her as a pet.
Nature conservation had a lot of specifications for the fence, size of the yard, and we had to present
a managing plan. A permit was issued, which has to be renewed yearly. We have joined the SA
Cheetah Breeders/Owners Association."

"It was quite a handful to introduce all of them: the young German Shepherd (8 mnths), the Cheetah (3 months), the Siamese kitten (2 months) and the Pug (old).The kitten and the pug were easy, but I kept the other two apart.
They were allowed to see each other through the glass sliding doors and after two weeks it
was easy to bring them physically together.
The cheetah and the German Shepherd chases each other on the lawn, so it saves me a lot of energy to exersize them (I am 59 years old!)."

"The moment the little Siamese goes out of the house to play in the garden (normally at sunset),
he has the full attention of both. The dog (playfully) puts his whole mouth around his little body and
the cheetah tackles him.(It amazes me that the Siamese tolerates it, and does not make use of the trees to escape). After a while the dog gets bored, and the two cats wander off to play in the garden.


"Sometimes at night it is quite a challenge to get the Siamese back into the house, but most of the time he is eager to be back."

Last one down is a kitten.

Some exceptionally interesting cat-people

I would like you to meet. Japie Pienaar, his wife Magda and their four legged children.

 Magda will introduce the lovable four :-
"Initially the cheetah was called Nancy but it changed to Jolie (the people who bottle fed her from birth called her Angelina Jolie !)
The German Shepherd is named Frankie (The first photo we received of him showed a blue reflection in his eyes from the handlers' clothes, which reminded my husband of Frank Sinatra, Ol' blue eyes!).

The Siamese is called Anix (named after a friend, Anika, who organised him for us), although mostly we call him 'The white one' (die witte).The Pug is just called Boelie."

Their farm is situated in the central Free State 20km fromWesselsbron, South Africa. A portion of the farm is a naturereserve and is also a working argicultural farm as well as a working Arabian horse stud farm
(click on the photos to enlarge)

There is a self catering camp next to the river in the game area with a vehicle to do game drives. Game includes various antelope, buffalo, rhino and hippo as well as lots of birds (200+ species) and fish in the river.

Brakfontein private nature reserve.

Contact detail: Magda Tel. (+27) 057 899 2426
I can see what goes on in that buffalo's mind while he is chewing on the straw. He is just itching for a scuffle with the cheetah.

However, before you get too excited to sleep, keep the words "action, cat and sleep" in mind. Like in the first
photo.... but not quite.

Afternoon nap with a siamese cat and a cheetah

Bound to be interesting.

Cat was not sleepy - looking for something interesting to do and would you believe what he found?! This big lovely tail.  All cats love to play with a tail.  Usually it is momcats tail which she moves slightly to amuse the kittens.  This time it is a gorgeous huge tail!
What kitten will resist that.  I will leave it to your imagination.  Just take a look at the kittens teeth showing. He is going to take a nice big bite !! eeek.