I have gone with a couple friends to help them look for a new pet here. This shelter is a no kill shelter and will adopt older, entirely lovable animals, from the public shelters when their days might be numbered there due to over-population. They are a very worthy charity and have very high standards of care in my experience. I strongly recommend them to anyone I know who is looking for a pet.

The Cheetah Conservation Fund addresses the big picture in the fight to save the cheetah species. They attack this goal on numerous fronts and therefore treasure the assistance of volunteers and try to utilize them to their strengths and ability. They operate with a lean staff to conserve resources, but with huge goals there is never a dull moment. As a volunteer in Namibia, I was helping with ecology studies (wildlife counts & camera trap studies), capture & release of cheetahs that were injured or caught hunting livestock, care of the captive cheetahs that cannot be released, medical work-ups on the wild & captive cheetahs, working with the livestock guard dogs & puppies that are given to farmers to protect their livestock, marketing (cheetah runs with tourists, marketing brochures), and international wildlife management course surveys to see how the class succeeded in teaching farmers from over a dozen African nations how to prevent wildlife & livestock conflict. We were also shown the Bushblok, which is a clean burning natural fuel log made of compressed chips from the invasive acacia shrub that in taking over all the overgrazed areas and injuring cheetahs. In two weeks, I was amazed by all that they do and the experience as a whole. I am fortunate that I can also sometimes help them locally with fundraisers & educational events in the US.