Dolph C. Volker's video: The Living Purring Cheetah Blanket Special Needs Big Cat Relaxes Beyond Nirvana From Neck Massage

Faith... The Totally Relaxed Comforted Living Cheetah Blanket. Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC25bqOksVyD-SfdAToam-Bg?sub_confirmation=1 PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=UGXLLG5QK6RRC Please like this video if you like it ;) Cats just LOVE to lay on you. Faith is one of the cheetahs I've known (off and on) since she was a cub. She's five years old in this video. Remember her when she became my pillow years ago? (https://youtu.be/WTHDxJ_JWzY) I've built up a special relationship with her over these years. She remembers and comes to me day or night for attention, company, rubbing, a scratching, and a sleepover. I discovered Faith loves her neck massaged and I used that to completely relax her! I rub, scratch, pinch, pull, and massage Faith's muscles, skin, and fur on the back of her neck while she melts in my arms. The video is amazing, even for me. It is a known stimulus relaxant to scruff the back of a cats neck. Nerve endings send signals to the brain to tell the body to relax. Feline moms will carry cubs using this scruff technique when moving them to safer locations. You don't want struggling cubs when mom is carrying them so the scruffing relaxes them. Both males and females have this affect and males will innately bite the back of a female cats neck during mating; same effect; calming the female. It is why you see many cats with extra fur on the back of their neck... it absorbs the bite pressure from mom or male cats. It also works for veterinarians who have uncooperative house cats to examine. They place a clamp on the back of the neck and it instantly calms them. Faith is a severely physically handicapped special needs cheetah due to having sterile meningitis when she was just weeks old. She almost died. It affected her skeletal and tissue growth resulting in her handicaps. She is a bit crosseyed, walks stiff, runs a bit awkward, has some gastric issues, curly tail, and has difficulty getting up and laying down... she manages but usually just flops down. Being an animal that doesn't comprehend the difference, she acts just like a cheetah anyway. Purrs, grooms, plays, runs, chases, gets affectionate, gets upset, and has the whole gamut of emotions and behaviors of a cheetah. She can never be released, forbidden to breed, and is cared for as a favorite at Cheetah Experience. Starting very early in her life as a vulnerable and sick cub, staff and volunteers would babysit Faith; spending days and nights watching over her. She and her old friend Eden would spend nights with the volunteers. After 5 years, Faith still loves spending nights with volunteers, even though she doesn't need watching over any more. Since I have known Faith for so long, I have special permission to continue spending nights with Faith when volunteering and interning at CE. Faith can still can be a bit of a hazard because she has a tendency to love bite and pacify herself on you. It is not aggressive but affection. She grabs clothing or your skin and can bite hard because she cannot control herself. I've never been bitten this way because I know her behavior so well and see it coming a mile away. But I've seen the scars on other people who were not as aware or knowledgeable. Point is, wild animals are still a hazard but I am willing to take the risk because I enjoy the encounters and enrichment as well. What is cool to me is Faith comes to ME to spend the night rather than the other way around. This brick house you see is open on one side with a door to her large enclosure. Faith sleeps outside much of the time and when she hears me setting up the bedding, she comes purring inside and flops on me to snuggle for the night. It is an incredible and warm feeling (literally). This was recorded during winter with (-)freezing temps and Faith shares her warmth with me. Cheetahs have an average temp ranging from 100-103deg Fahrenheit or 39.4 Celsius! We humans are only 98.6F. Faith becomes my purring living hot water bottle cheetah blanket for the night. Just incredible. We both enrich each others lives when I am there volunteering or interning at Cheetah Experience in South Africa. Faith is the current ambassador cheetah that guests and visitors can have escorted visits inside her enclosure. The public is not allowed to touch her, just observe from a respectful distance. Tonic immobility of a cheetah... "Putting Cheetahs To Sleep, One Animal At A Time." Thanks for watching! My YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC25bqOksVyD-SfdAToam-Bg Twitter: https://twitter.com/cheetah_petter Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Cheetah-Whisperer-200126363927484/ Google+: https://plus.google.com/+DolphCVolker/posts Check Out My Books I Wrote 1: https://www.amazon.com/DIRE-ENCOUNTERS-Man-Meets-Wolf-ebook/dp/B00UEHUB2G 2: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072N5M7KB