Most of the 60-odd facilities in SA that offer volunteering opportunities with large carnivores will use direct, hands-on interaction as their main draw card, the organisation said.
“As is the case at many so-called 'sanctuaries', the big cat enclosures at the facility where Amandine Lequime volunteered are designed incorrectly, lacking the required management enclosures separating predators from people. This poor layout forces inexperienced international volunteers to be in the same space as the predators while performing their feeding and cleaning duties.”
More like 'international student banged into the home of a cheetah and was treated the way home invaders should be'. It's a cheetah not a hostess serving high tea.
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