Farewell sweet boy – 2020
In the summer of 2019 we were thrilled to announce our first-ever Cheetah resident, Azreal. He was part of the Survival Species Program and came from Texas. When it came time for him to retire at nine years old, we were excited to provide him with a forever home. He was a beautiful boy, very laid back, and seemed to be doing well. However one morning he didn’t want to eat. On the second day our vet team came out, pulled blood, urine, gave fluids, treated with cerenia, omeprazole, convenia, famotidine and did an ultrsound to see why he wasn’t eating. Nothing showed up with the ultrasound, so they woke him up and we waited to hear back about his bloodwork. We checked on him every two hours and at 3am I found him gone 🙁 A necropsy showed chronic gastritis and esophagitis and he had passed from septic shock.
Losing him was completely unexpected and we’re still trying to deal with it. Bringing him to WildCat Ridge Sanctuary was a very long process and we were so excited to be able to care for him. Everyone involved assured us that sometimes these things happen and we never find the reason why, but it gutted us. We wanted to thank all the folks who worked so hard to get him here, he was a wonderful boy and to lose him has been one of the hardest things we’ve had to face.
