00:03We're here at the Little Rock Zoo in Arkansas and we're about to hang out with
00:07some of my favorite animals, the cheetahs. Let's go meet up with their keepers, Kate and Maggie.
00:19Hey guys! Hey Lauren, we've been expecting you. I heard we're gonna be hanging out with some
00:23cheetahs today? Yeah, we've got a lot planned for you. I'm gonna be doing a training session for
00:27medical exams but first, Kate's gonna do some food prep. That sounds like so much fun. When
00:32can we get started? Right now, let's go. So Kate, this is the cheetah kitchen, right? Yes, this is where
00:42we do meat prep for the cheetahs. This morning we're going to be making their breakfast. Maggie
00:46the cheetah also gets medicine in her diet in the morning because of procedures. We're also going
00:50to be preparing a food tray for training for Zazie. All right, so we're gonna get their bowls out.
00:58And we'll get their breakfast ready. Zazie gets senior feline diet and Maggie gets regular feline diet.
01:06So this is Zazie's meat right here? This is Zazie's meat. Put it in the bowls. And this is Maggie's.
01:15We weigh it out the night before so we're ready to go in the morning. Well because Maggie has seizures,
01:20she gets medicated twice a day. So we're going to get her medicine ready. We just take a pill out
01:26and hide it in a meatball and put it right on top of her diet. So she never even knows
01:30it's there. She
01:31never knows it's there. So this is the meat we're going to use for Zazie's training session today.
01:37And we actually have Maggie right over there waiting for us. So why don't we go get started with her?
01:40Sounds great.
02:02So we're here in the cheetah area. What are we going to do today? Actually, we're going to be doing
02:06some
02:06cheetah training. So we're going to be pulling Zazie into the squeeze. This is where we would weigh
02:13her. And we'll also practice in her blood draw training. So we'll be pulling her tail out. And
02:17then we will also be doing hand inject training. Maggie is our five-year-old cheetah. And shortly
02:25after she came to us, she started having seizure episodes that started with some abdomen compressions.
02:31It kind of looked like a cough. And then eventually she went on to have full-blown seizures.
02:36So her head would start shaking. And then it would happen for a few seconds. And all of a sudden,
02:40she would come out of it. Maggie has seizures that seem to be very focal to the front half
02:44of her body. We went through and did blood work. We did x-rays. We did CT scanning to try
02:50to diagnose
02:50the origin of her seizures. And we really didn't find anything specific for her. So right now,
02:56she's on a medication to help control her seizures. And it's working. The keepers have done a fantastic
03:01job training Maggie for her behaviors to get her to take her medications,
03:05to accept injections, to accept daily weights, everything that we might need to be able to
03:10manage her the best we can.
03:12We'll see you next time.
03:15We'll see you next time.
03:15We'll see you next time.
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