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[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Someone is gonna need to double check this, but I feel like it's saw a documentary that said cheetahs are super anxious... in the doc I feel like a guy slept in a makeshift shelter with cheetahs in a thunderstorm to help chill them out.

It sounds so bizarre that im not actually convinced this wasn't a dream, though...

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Sounds about right. In zoos they sometimes pair cheetah cubs with yellow lab puppies to help them deal with the stress of... existing while being a cheetah, I suppose.

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[–] Curious_Canid@piefed.ca 38 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The truth is that everyone should be paired with a dog to help them deal with stress.

I have mine. It works wonders.

[–] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Excuse me, but I'm gonna need to see that snoot booped.

[–] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 13 points 23 hours ago (2 children)
[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 3 points 18 hours ago

Ya, she absolutely is.

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 2 points 11 hours ago

Came for the cheetahs, stayed for the adorable snoot boop

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 3 points 22 hours ago

It depends on the dog though.

Border collies need to be paired with a human to keep them calm, they're very highly strung dogs.

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

No way... Come on... 🥹 That's adorable... come on now...

[–] Thrashy@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There’s a series of photos from a wildlife photographer that are essentially selfies of him with a litter of cheetah cubs that the mother cheetah literally dropped in his lap while she went to go hunt. It’s been theorized that the only reason cheetahs have never been domesticated is that that they’re very difficult to breed in captivity.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought they were domesticated many times throughout history, and used for hunting?

[–] Siethron@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Tamed, not domesticated.

The system falls apart without training every generation.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 9 hours ago

I guess no need to go through the efforts of the classical definition of domestication when you can take them from the wild ready to tame