A Kenyan family has told the BBC how a cheetah cub they adopted after finding it lying next to its dead mother became almost like one of their children.
However, their neighbours in the northern Wajir county were not pleased to see a wild animal being raised so close to them.
"Many people immediately told us to get rid of the cub so it wouldn't harm the livestock. We didn't do that because it seemed unreasonable," Bisharo Abdirahman Omar said.
The reaction was unsurprising as the Somali-speaking nomadic community earn their living by raising livestock, which are often threatened by predators such as cheetahs, leopards, lions, and hyenas.
"We knew it wouldn't benefit us in any way, like livestock would," said Rashid Abdi Hussein, a 45-year-old father of 10.
