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AnimalsTranscript
00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
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00:21 They're seeing the other cheetahs.
00:22 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
00:23 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
00:25 Aikou.
00:27 Aikou.
00:27 Come.
00:28 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
00:30 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
00:31 When they're bathing, they are destroying.
00:33 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
00:35 I think he's bored.
00:36 He's going to-- [SPEAKING FRENCH]
00:40 He's like, where is it?
00:41 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
00:44 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
00:46 Yeah.
00:46 It's a bit just naughty, though.
00:47 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
00:48 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
00:49 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
00:52 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
00:54 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
00:56 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
00:57 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
01:01 He's washing and bathing.
01:03 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
01:08 Yeah, it is, because you've got this--
01:11 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
01:12 --and you basically end up in a catch-22.
01:15 Because we get them in as orphans,
01:17 because their mother was killed.
01:19 And this happens.
01:21 We have to create a situation that is not normal
01:26 and make the best out of it.
01:28 And this is why they end up in our house.
01:31 But they've grown up.
01:33 And the most wonderful thing is to see
01:37 these cats go back into the wild.
01:39 I think Marlies has a good connection with them,
01:42 because she raised them.
01:44 And I think it's also important that they--
01:48 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
01:49 --in the house, and grew up in the house,
01:50 and teach a few that they are still dangerous animals,
01:54 that they are friends.
01:56 Since we have been married, I have not been one night.
02:00 I have slept through.
02:01 If not animals, it's our son.
02:05 And there's always someone there to wake us up in the night.
02:07 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
02:09 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
02:11 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
02:12 [LAUGHTER]
02:14 I've not been sleeping.
02:15 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
02:16 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:22 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
02:23 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
02:24 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
02:25 Many are orphans, and with the youngest, she had to play substitute mothers.
02:30 They were captured by a farmer when they were only a few weeks old.
02:36 Their mother managed to escape but she had to abandon their little ones.
02:40 For them to have a chance of survival, Marlis looked after them day and night.
02:47 Today, they are more used to men than to wildlife.
02:52 And giving them freedom has become difficult.
02:55 It's really a big purring cat.
03:02 It's quite disturbing because you can't imagine that you can have a cheetah like that on you,
03:10 like any other pet, and that it lets itself be caressed.
03:15 And that it loves it.
03:19 It's a good cat.
03:20 [Music]
03:22 Aisha!
03:44 [Music]
03:46 They trust.
04:05 They fully trust you when you are with them.
04:09 If you raise them as babies, they give you back a lot of love.
04:13 They all have different personalities.
04:15 For me, it's not that I love cheetahs, lions or leopards.
04:19 What I like is that they all have different personalities.
04:23 With each one of them, I maintain a close relationship.
04:27 I hope they have hair!
04:29 [Music]
04:30 (laughing)
04:32 (electronic music)