Lucky, The Three Legged Cheetah Is Luckier Than Many Big Game Animals

Christyl Rivers, Phd.
5 min readNov 16, 2018

Being Lame for life means Lucky will not be shot by a desperate farmer or big game hunter

Lucky the graceful, three legged cheetah, Photo By Christyl Rivers

Lucky, a sleek and graceful three legged Cheetah, lives in Namibia on an animal sanctuary. She still loves to chase and capture a rag tied and dragged across a line as “prey.” She most likely lost her leg chasing a Jeep or Land Rover when she was still a…

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Christyl Rivers, Phd.

Ecopsychologist, Writer, Farmer, Defender of reality, and Cat Castle Custodian.