Cheetahs

[underblueskies]

I just watched Wild Kingdom on animal planet and it was all about cheetahs. Rather, the story of two cheetah moms and their cubs. One mom was young and inexperienced and her and her cubs desperately needed to eat. She took a huge risk and went after a wildebeast. In the struggle, she got hurt while the wildebeast walked away. She rested for the remainder of the day, but could hardly walk the next morning. Which meant she couldn't hunt, so she couldn't feed herself or her cubs. And the narrator was all like, "And Somala went quietly to a bush, limping all the way, to lay down and accept her fate. (On screen you see her lie down and close her eyes.) At first, her cubs think its a game. They don't seem to understand what's this means. Eventually, they wander off, driven by hunger pains. Its unlikely they will survive without their mother." At this point, I'm totally crying. Later on the show explained that she was found by park rangers and healed. All her cubs except one died while they were on their own. However, she still had to find that last cub. A miracle happened and in the end the mom cheetah and the last cub found each other. At which point i almost cried again.

So i'm guessing this means i'm PMSing.