Long before Netflix brought people into the underworld of big cat breeding, a man and his own big cat roamed Canada's prairies. The man she met was a well-known figure dubbed "Noah of the North", featured on TV shows including Wild Kingdom and a CBC documentary called Al Oeming: Man of the North. Oeming went on to start a successful exotic species breeding program. To supplement his income to pay for upgrades to the farm, he began travelling across Canada, specifically Saskatchewan, with his trusted cheetah Tawana in tow. The big cat seemed to be attracted to the outfit.

Source: CBC News March 28, 2020 15:45 UTC