{"id":240356,"date":"2025-09-20T02:11:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T02:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/240356\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T02:11:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T02:11:16","slug":"cherished-dallas-zoo-cheetah-winspear-raised-alongside-a-labrador-dies-after-health-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/240356\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherished Dallas Zoo cheetah Winspear, raised alongside a Labrador, dies after health decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                   CBS News Live <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/keyart-texas-1920x1080.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/live\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>          CBS News Texas<\/p>\n<p>          Live<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Winspear, a beloved 12-year-old cheetah at the Dallas Zoo known for his gentle nature and quirky personality, has died following a decline in health, zoo officials announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He arrived at the zoo \u2014 at just two weeks old \u2014 in 2013. He was raised alongside a Labrador retriever named Amani.<\/p>\n<p>Health declined over several weeks<\/p>\n<p>While his condition worsened over several weeks, with changes in cognitive function, coordination, and overall comfort, zoo staff provided treatments and adjustments. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite extensive treatment efforts, Winspear&#8217;s condition deteriorated, prompting zoo officials to announce that he had been &#8220;humanely euthanized.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cheetah3.png#.png\" alt=\"cheetah3.png \" height=\"480\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Dallas Zoo<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cheetah1.png#.png\" alt=\"cheetah1.png \" height=\"318\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Dallas Zoo<\/p>\n<p>Known for purring and painting<\/p>\n<p>Known for purring, his love of training, and painting sessions, he had a quirky dislike for trash, especially plastic bags, blowing in the wind.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He would hiss at them to show his disapproval of pollution,&#8221; zoo officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Zoo invites public tributes<\/p>\n<p>Zoo staff honored Winspear with a tribute banner, filled with messages and memories from keepers and guests, and are inviting the public to share photos, videos, and stories to celebrate the life and legacy of this &#8220;remarkable cheetah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/doug-myers\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Doug  Myers<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Doug Myers is a digital content producer for CBS Texas. A longtime journalist, Doug has worked for four newspapers in Texas and Louisiana and for three television stations in Texas. He has also spent time as a digital content manager for a national trade association and as communications director for a state agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS News Live CBS News Texas Live Winspear, a beloved 12-year-old cheetah at the Dallas Zoo known for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":240357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,8963,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-240356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-north-texas","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115234202208692418","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}