Image:André Schlemmer, the head of enforcement in the Free State government’s environment department, removed four cheetah cubs from a camp cot where infrared lights were keeping them warm.
One of the cubs died two days later, and Murray said it was “astonishing” that the dog breeder, Thalita Cloete, and two farmers who had sought veterinary care for the cubs, were then criminally charged. In her judgment, Murray said the Schuttes had a permit to breed big cats, and in June 2016 nine cheetah cubs were born during the night as the temperature dipped as low as — 8°C.Bulldog breeder Thalita Cloete, of Welkom, had feeding tubes, syringes, playpens, heat lamps, temperature-control devices and the experience and knowledge to take care of cheetah and lion cubs, vet Matthys de Vries told the high court in Bloemfontein.
Then an anonymous informant told Schlemmer that lions were being kept on a residential property. He obtained a search warrant, enlisted police help and found the eight surviving cubs, which he confiscated and took to a rehabilitation centre in Bloemfontein.Cloete and the Schuttes told Murray they had been caught in an “untenable position”.
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