First Litter of Anatolian Puppies at Cheetah Outreach
Cheetah Outreach would like to welcome Cyril Stannard, previously Project
Leader of the Grootfontein Agricultural College's Anatolian Research
Programme, to Cheetah Outreach. Cyril will be coordinating our Anatolian placement,
monitoring and breeding as well as investigating other projects using this
method of non-lethal predator control with a view to national cooperation.
Six puppies, four males and two females, were born to one of our breeding females, Melda, on 3 July.
This was Melda’s first litter and she has turned out to be an exceptionally attentive and protective mother.
The puppies will be given to farmers in the Limpopo Province at six to seven weeks of age to begin
training as livestock guard dogs.
We hope this litter is the first of many to come in our effort to assist South African farmers in protecting
their livestock from predators and to conserve farmland habitat for free-ranging cheetahs.
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