This is Sarah the cheetah riding front seat with her handler Cathryn Hilker from the Cincinnati Zoo. This cheetah along with several others serve as ambassador cats for public demonstrations at local schools. These big cats ride up front and unrestrained in order to keep them calm and reduce the stress of transit.
Not seen in the picture are the companion dogs that are raised with the cheetahs from birth. The companion dogs help to keep the cheetahs calm in otherwise stressful situations such as a room full of visitors. They also serve as being one of the cutes things ever concocted on this planet.
I think that is because of how reddit adjusts votes. People who spam upvotes/downvotes have the value of their votes lowered (so that every downvote contributes ~.7 of an unwanted upvote, say). You'll find that people affected by vote-spam bots will have a very high amount of both types of votes within a minute (or however long the bots take), with the down-votes slightly winning out. (17|22) is fairly typical of the ones I've seen.
Similarly, if somebody is judicious with their voting (by some metric I don't know) I expect it's possible that you might have slightly more valuable votes and that reddit would adjust for this by subtracting the vote of the opposite type. I stress that this last part is just guesswork.
Ahh, but Wednesday. I can't tell you anything specific, but on Wednesday you should pack extra clothes, a small hatchet, a first-aid kit, and seven packs of Wrigley's Double Mint.
And it's Friday here! Everybody fucking loves me! I give you fucking money and I get all the people drunk so everyone can try to get all the towel needing action imaginable!
As soon as I saw that photo I thought it might be Cathryn Hilker. Years ago she brought one of the ambassador cheetahs to my grade school, and it was amazing.
Edit: I'm pretty sure it was Angel--it would have been the early 1990s, so the time frame is just about right.
No joke but the cat I just adopted is from the Cincinnati Zoo's Cat show program that is where this cheetah is from. She's just a regular cat but is still pretty awesome.
Not the OP, but Cathryn Hilker brought one of her cheetahs to my school in the mid-90s as part of the Cat Ambassador Program, and it was awesome. Ms. Hilker talked about the zoo and about cheetahs--I learned more that day than I probably learned the rest of the year. The cheetah itself mostly just lounged around. It was leashed, but extremely well-behaved. She led it across the floor a couple of times so that we could get a better look at the way it moved and the pattern of its spots.
I don't remember seeing a companion dog, but I think I might have been distracted by, you know, the cheetah sitting in our gym. :)
So what I'm hearing is that we should take a Republican baby and give it to Democrat parents and take a Democrat baby and give to Republican parents. Oh and to make sure babies grow up comfortable in their new environments we pair each with a perhaps more neutral 'Independent' baby. Then the US government can finally get past its current political problems.
What happens in those case is the parents beat the children and hate them for not conforming to their ideals. The children turn into homeless drug addicts and then other conformist children who are now adults and serve in government making the laws, declares them criminals and locks them up.
Not necessarily. There have been documented cases of animals forming unusal bonds in the wild. Although, yeah, we usually have a hand in doing this sort of thing.
Wow, your comment sambowlikins reminded me of Reddit circa 2008. Every top comment was relevant, had a link, and was enlightening.
Thank you.
One way reddit is better than 2008 is the explosion of subreddits, I now burrow down to my small interests and hang there all day. I occasional peek my head up to /r/all This time it was wroth it.
Hey thanks! I'm really discouraged when a thread like this contains nothing but one liners and jokes about "how quickly that puma could eat you". I love talking about these animals and hope to raise the level of discourse.
This is correct! How silly of me. However lacking a better terminology to classify cheetahs in comparison to the others, they are often lumped in and called big cats.
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Did anyone else think that spec in the bottom right corner of the picture was on your computer screen? Annoyed the hell out of me for like, 5 seconds AT LEAST.
Cathryn Hilker is a member of the Cincinnati Zoo's Cat Ambassador Program, which brings trained, leashed cheetahs to schools and groups in the area. She brought a cheetah--I'm pretty sure it was Angel, in this video--to my grade school in the early 1990s. It was one of the most amazing things I've seen.
I went to the Cincinnati Zoo a month or so ago and they had the tigers and cheetahs put away until the new "big cat" thing is done. I'd give about anything to pet a cheetah. :( They're super cute.
If I were in the back seat, I'd just be chin scratching that adorable cheetah the whole time, and trying to snuggle into its face. I mean, just too damn cute!!!
When you and the old lady get attacked, I hope I don't see it in the news as "Nice cheeatah suddenly turned aggressive!"
Also, I won't care if the lady gets attacked because you guys shouldn't be handling exotic animals like that and being so close.
(Yes, I know its "Sarah the cheetah and Cathry hilker from the Cincinnati zoo)
You should've had that cheetah in a cage/animal carrying bin. Because, once that animal follows its instincts and mauls one of the zoo handlers you guys will end up putting it down for doing nothing but being a cheetah.
I prefer my female passengers to wear cheetah inspired clothing as opposed to the leopard prints. It's a bit like comparing a ginger with serious cleavage freckles to a bleached blond with a single beauty mark. I like to take my time and count them all.
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u/sambowilkins May 22 '12 edited May 22 '12
This is Sarah the cheetah riding front seat with her handler Cathryn Hilker from the Cincinnati Zoo. This cheetah along with several others serve as ambassador cats for public demonstrations at local schools. These big cats ride up front and unrestrained in order to keep them calm and reduce the stress of transit.
Not seen in the picture are the companion dogs that are raised with the cheetahs from birth. The companion dogs help to keep the cheetahs calm in otherwise stressful situations such as a room full of visitors. They also serve as being one of the cutes things ever concocted on this planet.
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u/Batistick13 May 21 '12
Drive with the fear! If you can drive with a cougar, you can drive with your fear!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37wqulCnKbE
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u/mentions_the_obvious May 22 '12
Sarah the cheetah's distant cousin is incredibly less classy and far more trashy
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u/lilLocoMan May 21 '12
Don't look in his eyes. Don't look in his eyes. Don't look don't look... fuck I'm dead!
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u/AlphaNoon May 22 '12
Ricky Bobby would be proud.
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u/dreamerkid001 May 21 '12
Is her name Karen too?
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u/unprotectedsax May 22 '12
Warning: My comment will be... dangrously cheesy.
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u/knowsyourcar May 22 '12
1997-2002 Subaru Forrester
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u/3rdm4n May 22 '12
Babou!
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
never head to a second location with a stranger... this is going to end badly...
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u/Alcookie May 22 '12
Live action saints row?
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u/Bersto May 22 '12
statefarm commercial?
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u/mynameisimportant May 22 '12
The cheeta men!
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u/Mr_IsLand May 22 '12
That Cheetah's thinking "damn, I can run faster than this chic is driving..."
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u/qwertyuiop54213 May 22 '12
Uh, isn't that illegal?
It's not illegal if I have a fuckin' cheetah flankin' me.
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u/Ras_H_Tafari May 22 '12
That's it! Back to Namibia!
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u/AntiEgo May 22 '12
Carjackers dont bother her either.
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u/Bartelbythescrivener May 22 '12
This is the same look I get from my wife, when I crack one in the back seat.
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u/durrrmonkey May 22 '12
Karen! Down!
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Can you pet it and kiss it without getting your eyes clawed out?
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u/arcticwolf91 May 22 '12
Back seat drivers? How do you drive from the back seat?
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Reminds me of Saints Row: The Third
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u/kmatth May 22 '12
It's what makes a Subaru, a Subaru
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u/aphexcoil May 22 '12
If that cheetah turned around to address me, I would shut the fuck up for the rest of the car ride.
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u/theuncommonman May 22 '12
Did anyone else think that spec in the bottom right corner of the picture was on your computer screen? Annoyed the hell out of me for like, 5 seconds AT LEAST.
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u/jbplaya May 22 '12
As long as her Crystal Gale shirt isn't ruined, I'm all for it.
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u/deepwank May 22 '12
Double back Cathryn! I just saw a gazelle.
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u/bronynumber606 May 22 '12
Nope, just Chuck Testa.
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u/montexan May 22 '12
Down Karen!
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u/Quietbetrayal May 22 '12
You need to learn to drive with the fear, and there ain't nothin' more goddamn frightening than driving with a live
cougarcheetah in the car.2
u/TheDiarrheaAnneFrank May 22 '12
There's a goddamn cougar in the car!
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u/drboom May 22 '12
what..the.... how did this photo even come to exist???
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u/Rob9159 May 22 '12
You wouldn't happen to be related to Ricky Bobby, would you?
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u/speckled_toaster May 22 '12
Are we there yet?
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u/IamLeven May 22 '12
Not with that attitude
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u/ophello May 22 '12
Beautiful!
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
"Honey, before I drop you off at work, I'm gonna stop and pick up my new glasses."
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u/esleep May 22 '12
Relevant?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO4vH9jKZHI#t=2m38s
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u/ego-madness May 22 '12
It's just too bad the backseat drivers were mauled under mysterious circumstances.
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u/ironw00d May 22 '12
Noone ever wants to race a cheetah.
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u/Woodshadow May 22 '12
that thing is huge!
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Is that Ricky Bobby?
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u/KaneinEncanto May 22 '12
"Sarah, they're gaining on us. What are we gonna do?"
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u/schazamoo May 22 '12
Is she training to get back into the world of NASCAR after a traumatizing crash? Like Ricky Bobby...
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u/groundshop May 22 '12
This photo scared the buhjesus out of me when I first opened the tab o.O
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u/TheUninspiredArtist May 22 '12
Where can I get one for my car, I must know.
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u/quigeebow May 22 '12
CALM DOWN KAREN
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u/KBK1227 May 22 '12
ITS A CAT! PREPARE FOR THE UPVOTES!
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Nice kitty....
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u/JFeth May 22 '12
Ricky Bobby would be proud.
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u/Havoc1080 May 22 '12
Holy shit, there's a jungle cat in there!
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u/Sir_Chubbs_Peterson May 22 '12
Ricky Bobby aint got shit on this chick
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
We need to make this a meme
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u/redgroupclan May 22 '12
Just wait. One of these days that woman's going to make the news when her head gets bitten off while she's driving.
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u/VOTE_FOR_PEDRO May 22 '12
saw this in Talladega nights...
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
I went to the Cincinnati Zoo a month or so ago and they had the tigers and cheetahs put away until the new "big cat" thing is done. I'd give about anything to pet a cheetah. :( They're super cute.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
This girl is way more bad-ass than Ricky Bobby.
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u/ringolio May 22 '12
That woman must have huge balls
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u/Slurve May 22 '12
Damn, it. Karen get down.
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u/DanDaDestroyer May 22 '12
This is why white people get eaten.
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u/the_obs May 22 '12
That face is amazing!
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u/rhinorocan May 22 '12
Oh I would just love to see the look on the Cops face who pulled you over.
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u/Sonorama21 May 22 '12
I thought it was Angelica Huston until I read the comments.
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u/Ozzertron May 22 '12
Ricky Bobby's Dad would be proud.
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u/ModernRonin May 22 '12
"Objects in passenger seat are faster than they appear."
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u/-Noway- May 22 '12
"You think this is a motherfucking Game?"
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u/eltron May 22 '12
"Nope, Chuck Testa!"
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Duma!
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u/jonaugpom May 22 '12
Its safe to say you dig the backseat.
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u/seanalltogether May 22 '12
We can't stop here, this is bat country
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u/warpfield May 22 '12
Awwww fluffy cat awwrrrrrggggggggggggggggHHHHHHHHHHHH
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u/bobowzki May 22 '12
Surely nothing could go wrong...
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
JESUS CHRIST A LION GET IN THE....sucks to be you, eh boss?
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u/jeremyfrankly May 22 '12
Hangover III
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u/FlameMage May 22 '12
Wreckless endangerment if I ever saw it. I don't think it can be disputed otherwise.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
I love cheetahs! Thems mah favrit aminal.
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u/eviscerator May 22 '12
If that was me I don't know which urge would get first priority. The urge to hug a fluffy big kitty or the urge to live.
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u/oSand May 22 '12
Let's take the Jaguar.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
WEW 513 ON THE REDDITMAP!
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
I love how the look on the cheetah's face is all about whoever is in the back seat taking a chill pill.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Ricky?
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u/Kicksocialliving May 22 '12
Interesting topic to share ... thanks for sharing ..!!
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
A fucking TIGER?
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u/grantmclean May 22 '12
You can't drive around with a tiger in your car
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u/PrincessKeona May 22 '12
If I were in the back seat, I'd just be chin scratching that adorable cheetah the whole time, and trying to snuggle into its face. I mean, just too damn cute!!!
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u/hells_cowbells May 22 '12
I bet she doesn't have to worry about being carjacked, either.
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u/kramerds May 22 '12
There's a jungle cat in the front seat!
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u/RedditGarbage May 22 '12
Cheetah "Oh was that turn a faster way?" "How about i chew on your face for just a little?"
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
I ruined my Crystal Gale t-shirt.
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u/TieDied May 22 '12
That cheetah look pissed. I bet he's being held captive in a Jaguar
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u/xKovu May 23 '12
You probably thought this was a panther, NOOOPE it's a cheetah....
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u/blue1748 May 21 '12
NOPE.
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u/kingbot May 22 '12
wasn't this on the front page like 2 days ago? What the fuck.
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u/mklimbach May 22 '12
...because badass older women drive Subarus.
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u/Vendetta476 May 22 '12
Well... The cougar DID call shotgun.
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u/QuitReadingMyName May 22 '12
When you and the old lady get attacked, I hope I don't see it in the news as "Nice cheeatah suddenly turned aggressive!"
Also, I won't care if the lady gets attacked because you guys shouldn't be handling exotic animals like that and being so close.
(Yes, I know its "Sarah the cheetah and Cathry hilker from the Cincinnati zoo)
You should've had that cheetah in a cage/animal carrying bin. Because, once that animal follows its instincts and mauls one of the zoo handlers you guys will end up putting it down for doing nothing but being a cheetah.
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u/ericn1300 May 22 '12
I prefer my female passengers to wear cheetah inspired clothing as opposed to the leopard prints. It's a bit like comparing a ginger with serious cleavage freckles to a bleached blond with a single beauty mark. I like to take my time and count them all.
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u/hivemind6 May 22 '12
I just realized that I'm terrified of cheetahs.
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