One of my favorite attractions here in Tampa Bay is Busch Gardens where you can find an 
unlikely duo that has been paired up and park animal experts expect the friendship to last a lifetime. It’s been one year since Kasi the Cheetah and Mtani the Yellow Labrador Retriever first met and became best-friends. The park is now celebrating their one year anniversary.
At first, the pair only spent supervised play time together to give the animals a safe opportunity to interact and bond. Park experts say that dogs and cheetahs are actually very similar in their social interactions and is it’s not uncommon to pair them up in a zoological environment. Cheetahs in captivity don’t really get along well with each other and would much rather hang out with their canine friends because in the wild they’re usually solitary anyways.
Cheetahs are said to be the most easily tamed of the large cats and are more dog-like so It’s not surprising to see an inter-species relationship like this with so many other publicized “couples” out there. The reason dogs and cheetahs work so well together is because the dogs tend to calm and relax the cheetah in situations where a wild animal may get really nervous. Believe it or not, Zoos all over the world have been pairing up Canines with Dogs for decades!
Park guests can see Kasi and Mtani daily at Cheetah Run, where they spend a portion of each day playing together, training with their keepers and exercising with the habitat’s lure system which encourages them to run.
I guess we can all learn a lesson about who we can and can’t get along with! (Like Rodney King said, “Can’t we all just get along!”)
All Star Coaching thought for today: We should never stand before one another and think that we are better! We should, however, always aspire to be better than our words!
Have an inspired day.
BF
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