By CCF Staff | CCF Employee
This year, CCF has had 41 puppies born from a total of 5 litters. Only 27 of the 41 have been placed on farms as 5 were stillborns, 1 will stay at CCF as an ambassador dog, and the remaining 8 will go out to their new farms around mid-January. Another female, Repet, is due at the end of December, with her puppies going out in the beginning of March. These puppies will all be a part of the field of conservation by helping to save the wild cheetah by protecting farmers' livestock from predation and in return the farmers allowing predators to live freely and safely on their land.
The 8 puppies, still at CCF, are from our female Karibib and they are getting bigger by the day and have just opened their eyes. The puppies' ears are also opening and they have begun walking around their house. The puppy house is now filled with wobbly puppies and the sounds of howls as they can finally hear themselves and are quite impressed with their own sounds.
In other puppy news, our little survivor Hercules is growing up big and strong. He is now 4 months old and 15 kg. He has also proved his great ambassador skills by helping to welcome the Turkish Ambassador and the TIKA (Turkish International Cooperation Development Agency) team when they came to visit CCF to donate a car for the dog programme. This car will allow the dog programme to accomplish regular visits to the farms that house placed working dogs to check on their health and training.
Besides having TIKA come for a visit, we also had the German breeders who donated our female Kangal, Aleya, visit for a few days. They were very happy with Aleya's attitude towards her work and were so excited to give her some hugs and belly scratches. They even got to see one of her puppies that recently went out, at his farm. They are very interested in possibly donating another dog to CCF next year, which will be another asset to CCF's breeding programme.
CCF has had a lot of great things happen for the dog programme this year and we hope this success continues in 2016. Thanks to everyone for all of your support!
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