Two Unlikely Animals Pals Come Together For an Amazing Story

Wild Times at the San Diego Zoo

Friends can come in all shapes, sizes, and sometimes, even different species! Learn about Ruuxa the cheetah and Raina the dog, who after a medical emergency became an inseparable pair.

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00:00Rooks a our cheetah cub, we noticed, started to have his front feet turn outward.

00:19We called in some experts to look at this and it turned out to be that one of his front

00:23leg bones had stopped growing while the other one continued, creating that outward curvature

00:28of his feet.

00:29So we had a surgeon come in who was able to relieve the pressure on the one bone.

00:33Now his feet have started to correct, they're going back to forward, and as his bone continues

00:37to grow back correctly, we'll see his feet turn facing forward again.

00:45Rooks and Rain are in training to be ambassadors, and so as a part of their training they're

00:49getting used to all of the stimulus around the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

00:52So we do take them on walks, on leashes, short walks.

00:55The walking is also a good exercise regimen for Rooks in the healing of his legs and

01:00the positive growth.

01:01So walking is something that they do every day here at the park.

01:08Rooks and Rain have the closest relationship of any of the cheetahs and dogs that we've

01:12raised here at the Safari Park over the past 13 years.

01:15To be able to be together from four weeks and five weeks of age has definitely allowed

01:19them to become bonded, much more like siblings than like friends.

01:23They are very, very close, and they take a lot of comfort in one another.

01:35The daily routine of Rooks and Rain is a lot like taking care of preschoolers at this point.

01:39When we show up in the morning, they're full of energy, happy to see us, we need to make

01:42sure they get their breakfast, we clean up after them, they take a nap, they get their

01:45exercise, and it's pretty much eat, sleep, play, repeat.

01:49But one of the great things about them becoming ambassadors is that they have a training routine

01:53as well, and that means they're starting to get out in the Safari Park, so our visitors

01:56could perchance see them walking around our grounds every day.

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