If someone wanted to own a big cat, gave it a specially designed enclosure which satisfied all of it's natural behaviours, fed it a natural diet, treated it with respect and had strict safety proceedures in place for all aspects of owning the cat and be PROPERLY regulated with all the correct licenses and documents (not just buying a license from a friend) then so be it. We don't like it but at least it's well looked after.
But having it on a collar and lead in a public place, with little respect for it's power, keeping it in a barren cage in the garden, not feeding it the right diet, de-clawing, drugging and de-fanging it - it's not on.
We are here to educate people on all aspects of animal welfare including wild and endangered animals. QAWS is a member of the Species Survival Network (SSN) which works alongside CITES to regulate endangered animals, which a cheetah is.
Leaving a cheetah locked in a LandCruiser in the underground car park of LandMark shopping mall with no A/C and no windows cracked.... That's just animal cruelty.
Cheetahs can be owned privately.
IF they are respected.
But they are not.
If someone wanted to own a big cat, gave it a specially designed enclosure which satisfied all of it's natural behaviours, fed it a natural diet, treated it with respect and had strict safety proceedures in place for all aspects of owning the cat and be PROPERLY regulated with all the correct licenses and documents (not just buying a license from a friend) then so be it. We don't like it but at least it's well looked after.
But having it on a collar and lead in a public place, with little respect for it's power, keeping it in a barren cage in the garden, not feeding it the right diet, de-clawing, drugging and de-fanging it - it's not on.
We are here to educate people on all aspects of animal welfare including wild and endangered animals. QAWS is a member of the Species Survival Network (SSN) which works alongside CITES to regulate endangered animals, which a cheetah is.
Leaving a cheetah locked in a LandCruiser in the underground car park of LandMark shopping mall with no A/C and no windows cracked.... That's just animal cruelty.