Animals
Animals
Three cheetahs swim moat to escape
Three cheetahs swam a moat and crawled through a hole in a rusty fence to escape their enclosure and then briefly roamed inside a wildlife park in New Zealand.
Orana Wildlife Park rushed visitors to a secure area while rangers rounded up the big cats Thursday, park chief executive Lynn Anderson said Friday.
"Our cheetahs, just like a domestic house cat, they all hate swimming, so if you had asked me yesterday would any of our cheetahs swim I would have said no," Anderson told National Radio. "They proved us quite wrong."
The cats, three youngsters who had been bred at the park, crawled through a fence hole that was exposed recently when greenery was cut back, she said. The breakout at the park near Christchurch lasted about a half hour.
Lucy Tame, a 25-year-old park visitor, said she and her mother took photographs as the three cats made their escape shortly after midday.
"We saw them sitting in their enclosure and they decided to go for a bit of a swim, one, two, three," she said. After climbing through the hole in the fence, the cats ran in front of a park shuttle bus, causing the driver to jam on his brakes, she said.
- Posted on February 5, 2010
That would be scary but i love cats even if they are big cats plus there from the wild so you cant blame them for wanting to go home.
Wow that would be awesome to wake up and see a cheetah in your back yard that would be awesome yeah they better round them up
That is wrong to keep animals in a enclosed fence or building how would you like to be shoved in a box and not aloud out until you finally broke out of the box
I thought that cats are afraid of water? They must of wanted out bad?The people are lucky they didn't get killed or hurt. I would of been scared.
i never knew that cats would ever try to swim, theses cats were brave an they will probably try it again if they liked it. i try giving my cat a bath an he freaks out on me but these cats just kept swimming........................................
i never knew that cats would ever try to swim, theses cats were brave an they will probably try it again if they liked it. i try giving my cat a bath an he freaks out on me but these cats just kept swimming........................................