Sick Cheetah Cub Becomes Best Friends With Puppy

Everyone needs a friend to lean on when they are having problems. That includes a cheetah cub who received comfort from his BFF which just happens to be a puppy. The 10-week old cheetah cub named Emmet was suffering from pneumonia and needed a friend to help with his recovery. Emmet was born at a conservation centre in Ohio, but not long after his birth contracted pneumonia.

Developing a friendship

For the first few weeks of his life he was hand reared and found it difficult to adjust after he was finally moved to Columbus Zoo and Aquarium. Fortunately, the baby cheetah was able to develop a friendship with a 7-week old puppy named Cullen. Columbus Zoo and Aquarium said Cullen was able to help Emmet become more confident and calm. Cheetahs tend to be quite a skittish species so that was very important.

Inseparable

The zoo says the puppy and the cheetah cub have become the best of friends and are now inseparable and are even going to travel together. Emmet will be acting as the ambassador for wild cheetahs and Cullen will be travelling with him as his companion dog. These two critters are just two of the many animals that live at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and are named after characters from Twilight series of books and movies.