Captive cheetah breeding is reaching epidemic proportions in South Africa. Cheetahs bred on demand for profit. An extremely worrying trend is emerging in South Africa. Cheetah cubs are bred and taken away from their mothers. They are then hand-reared for cub petting, to become well-behaved ambassador species, exported for “zoological” reasons or into the pet trade. With the number of cheetahs in captivity soaring to more than 600 kept in about 80 different facilities, concerns have been raised that this industry is showing alarming similarities of the lion breeding industry, with its links to canned hunting and legal lion bone…
