My dear friends,
It is high summer. We have been spared the heat and dust this year. Cyclones near the island of Madagascar have interfered with the upper air currents and brought us some very heavy rain. This is a great bonus during this normally very dry season. The Game Ranch is unusually green, what a welcome for the "American bongo"!
There is little else anyone here talks about. I ask you: Are spots out and stripes in? I cannot imagine that we would be forgotten. Just in case, I will do some of my own PR! Here is a picture of my cousin,
The "King Cheetah".
Actually we are very closely related. This animal is simply a variant of my own self in looks. He's also a bit bigger and was first recorded in what was then Rhodesia and is now called Zimbabwe. A few exist in the Southern part of Africa, but non in Kenya.
And that's a good thing as otherwise I would probably lose my job as 'Chaircat'.
It is my honor to announce that the conservation activities of our Mount Kenya Game Ranch have now been taken over by the newly formed:
A non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of wildlife.
This is good news for us. It means that the conservation work the Game Ranch has been doing for 35 years will continue well into the future, well after we ourselves are... well... 'history'! But it also means that meanwhile all of us here at the Orphanage will continue to enjoy TLC. Most importantly, they have decided that I may remain, for another year,
Yours most devoted,
