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steve2470

(37,457 posts) Mon Mar 21, 2016, 08:36 AM Mar 2016

Veterinarians Perform C-Section To Save These Adorable Cheetah Cubs

http://www.abc15.com/news/national/veterinarians-perform-csection-to-save-these-adorable-cheetah-cubs-1

For this cheetah cub, life pretty much revolves around eating every three hours. Seems pretty easy, right? Well, it hasn't been all smooth sailing.

Staff at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden performed a cesarean section on the 5-year-old mother, Willow, earlier this month after she developed complications.

A team of veterinarians successfully delivered three boys and two girls, but the cubs need round-the-clock care due to weak immune systems.

"We have to be very careful about hygiene; that's critical that they are kept clean, the formula sterilized, the water is in sterilized bottles, just like for a human baby," the zoo's director of animal health said.

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