Our Wishlist
From big cats and smaller wild animals to horses, goats, dogs and cats, they’re all part of our pride, along with the humans who care for them!
Our wish list includes food, supplements, toys for curious paws and tools for busy hands. Each item helps us care for our animals and keep our sanctuary running.
Every gift, big or small, is one less thing we need to buy, helping our funds go further. (And if you’d like to treat our human pride, biscuits are always welcome. Looking after everyone is hungry work!)
Have a browse below and see which wish you’d like to grant! A little gift from you means a lot to our pride.
Sending a little love our way? You can send packages directly to:
👤 Contact: Panthera Africa NPC
✉️ Email: info@pantheraafrica.com
📞 Telephone: +27 71 182 8368
📍 Delivery address:
Farm 933, Portion 2
Stanford, 7210
Western Cape, South Africa
Questions or a gift you’d like to arrange? We’d love to hear from you!
Takealot Treats for Our Pride
- We’ve picked what we need. You choose what to gift!
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We’ve done the wishing. You get to do the choosing!
Browse our Takealot wish list for gifts that help care for our animals and equip our human pride. A few clicks from you can make a big difference!
Big Cats Love Cardboard Too
- Cost: R369 / approx. US$24 for five A1 cardboard tubes
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If you’ve ever watched a house cat choose the box over the present, you’ll understand this wish! Cardboard tubes and boxes give our big cats something to play with and investigate.
Our team can turn them into treat puzzles and playful challenges, encouraging natural behaviours and giving curious minds and busy paws something to do. Your gift helps turn simple cardboard into a little adventure!
Have some to spare? We welcome donations of clean cardboard tubes and boxes. Get in touch to arrange a drop-off. For larger quantities within a reasonable distance, we may be able to collect.
A Small Box of Fun for Curious Paws
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Cost: R200 / $12
(Payment reference: Curious Paws Small)
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A little box with plenty of love and curiosity! A variety of interesting smells, a tasty treat and some nutritional support make this a thoughtful gift for our animals.
What’s in the box?
- Spices for curious noses and scent enrichment.
- Pine cones for physical enrichment, giving our smaller animals, like our caracals, something to investigate and play with as they find food tucked inside.
- Supplement powder, enough for approximately one feed.
- Eggs for our caracals, a tasty addition to their enrichment.
Your gift helps our team create opportunities for sniffing, play and discovery while supporting our animals’ daily nutrition.
A Medium Box of Fun for Curious Paws
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Cost: : R350 / $21
(Payment reference: Curious Paws Medium)
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Something to sniff, something to investigate and a little help with daily love and care! This box brings together enrichment goodies and useful essentials for our team.
What’s in the box?
- Spices for curious noses and scent enrichment.
- Pine cones for physical enrichment, giving our smaller animals, like our caracals, something to investigate and play with as they find food tucked inside.
- Supplement powder, enough for approximately one feed.
- Eggs for our caracals, a tasty addition to their enrichment.
- A water cleaning kit to help keep water bowls fresh and clean.
- Coloured paper for our team to create interesting enrichment items.
Your gift provides supplies for play, discovery and daily care, helping our team keep our animals’ days interesting and their needs met.
A Large Box of Fun for Curious Paws
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Cost: R600 / $36
(Payment reference: Curious Paws Large)
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Our biggest box brings love, care and curiosity together! From intriguing scents to supplements, these goodies help our team look after our animals and keep their days interesting.
What’s in the box?
- Vanilla essence for curious noses and scent enrichment.
- Supplement powder, enough for approximately one feed.
- Eggs for our caracals, a tasty addition to their enrichment.
- A water cleaning kit to help keep water bowls fresh and clean.
- Coloured paper for creating enrichment items.
- A glue stick for our team’s enrichment creations.
- Eyes RX Plus and Efazol, providing a month’s worth of extra support for some of our animals’ eyes, skin and coats.
Your gift supports play, discovery and individual care. It also means fewer supplies for our team to buy, helping our funds go further for our animals and our work.
Have a Ball with Our Big Cat Footballers
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Cost: R2,000 / $120 per ball, includes shipping.
(Payment reference: Boomer Ball)
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If you’ve ever watched your cat at home playing with a ball, you’ll recognise a few familiar moves. Ours just come with bigger paws!
Our big cats hold their Boomer Balls between their paws, push them, chase them and even dribble them around their camps. Each cat brings their own style to the game! (Our queen lioness Baguira is quite the football superstar! Keep an eye on our social media for videos of her showing off her skills.)
These sturdy balls encourage movement and help keep our cats engaged and enjoying their days, making their living spaces more fun and interesting.
Your gift gives our cats more opportunities to play and our team another way to bring variety into their days.
Scents for Curious Big Cat Noses
- Cost: R250 / $15 for 12 x 10ml bottles
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For a curious cat, a new scent is something worth investigating! Scent enrichment gives our animals opportunities to sniff, explore and scent mark, encouraging natural behaviours and adding variety to their day.
Your gift helps our animal care team create interesting scent trails and new discoveries. A familiar space can become a fresh adventure for an inquisitive nose!
This set includes lavender, lemongrass, eucalyptus, peppermint, tea tree, sweet orange, frankincense, pine tree, bergamot, rosemary, cinnamon and grapefruit.
Sprinkle Some Spice into a Big Cat’s Day
- Cost: : R335 / $21 for a set of 6 bottles
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What’s that smell? Time for a little detective work! Spices are part of our scent enrichment programme, giving our big cats something new to investigate with those wonderfully curious noses. Exploring different scents encourages natural behaviours and keeps their minds busy.
Your gift helps our team add variety to their surroundings, with new smells to discover and interesting places to sniff.
The spices we use are non-GMO, non-irradiated, gluten-free and free from preservatives.
Fibre for Our Big Cat Tummies
- Cost: R250 / US$16 per 400g bag. Approximately 10 bags needed monthly
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Some of the most useful gifts aren’t toys or treats. This fibre supplement, derived from the seeds of the Plantago plant, helps support our big cats’ digestion and is one of the practical things on our animal care team’s shopping list.
Your gift helps us meet this everyday need. It might not inspire a playful pounce, but caring for our cats means looking after what’s happening on the inside too!
Keep Big Cat Tummies Moving
- Cost: R55 / $4 per 150ml
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Even big cat tummies need a little extra care sometimes! Lacson Syrup is one of the supplies we keep on hand for use when our veterinarian recommends it as part of an animal’s digestive care.
Your gift helps our team stay prepared and look after each cat’s individual needs. A little bottle for the care cupboard, a thoughtful gift for our pride!
A Little Skin Care Beneath the Fur
- Cost: R267 / $17 per 200ml
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Under those beautiful stripes and golden coats is skin that needs looking after too! DermaFocus is one of the products our team uses when caring for animals with skin conditions.
Your gift helps us meet this practical care need, supporting our cats’ comfort so they can get on with their important daily business: exploring, playing and finding the perfect spot for a snooze!
No Room for Uninvited Hitchhikers
- Cost: R380 / US$24 to R1,060 / US$68. Prices vary by box colour/pack size
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Our pride has room for animals who need a home, but ticks and fleas aren’t on the guest list!
Credelio forms part of our animals’ parasite care, helping protect them from these unwanted visitors. Your gift supports their health and comfort, leaving them to enjoy their day with fewer pesky passengers.
Our wish list includes:
- 30 blue boxes
- 10 green boxes
- 14 orange boxes
- 12 pink boxes
- 24 yellow boxes
Packs are available with 3 or 6 doses. Please get in touch before ordering so we can confirm which colours and pack sizes we currently need.
Whether you give one box or several, every gift helps. More comfortable snoozes, fewer unwanted guests!
Let Our Sleeping Cats Lie
- Cost: : R771 / $48 for 2.5L
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A sunny spot, a comfy snooze… and a fly that just won’t take the hint!
Flies can bother our big cats during the warmer months, interrupting their rest and causing discomfort. Shoo-Fly helps our team keep these buzzing visitors at bay as part of our animals’ daily care.
Your gift helps our cats enjoy more comfortable afternoons, with less tail flicking and more time for the serious business of snoozing!
Worms Aren’t Welcome
- Cost: R3,103 / US$195 for 100 tablets.
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Worms aren’t welcome in our pride’s tummies! Quantel is a dewormer used as part of our big cats’ parasite care, helping our team look after the things we can’t always see.
It might not be as exciting as a new toy, but it’s an important part of caring for our cats’ health and comfort.
Your gift helps stock our care supplies so our team has what they need. Sometimes a little tablet is a big act of kindness!
Little Tablets to Send Worms Packing
- Cost: R1,622 / $102 per box of 20 tablets
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Our cats have plenty of room for a good meal, but none for unwanted worms!
Milbemax is part of our big cats’ deworming care, helping our team look after their health and comfort from the inside.
Your gift helps keep these important supplies on hand for the animals who depend on us. It may not come with a playful pounce or an excited sniff, but this little box has an important place in our pride’s care!
A Little Vitamin B for Our Big Cats
- R200 / $13 per 30 Tablets
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Looking after our cats means caring for everything from their whiskers to what’s happening beneath the fur!
Neurobion provides vitamins B1, B6 and B12, which support normal nerve function and help address deficiencies in these vitamins. It forms part of the individual care we give animals who need this supplement.
Your gift helps our team keep these everyday supplies on hand. It may be a small box, but it’s another practical way to help us give our pride the lifelong care they deserve!
Snake Hook: A Helping Hand for Visitors Without Legs!
- Cost: : R695 / $43
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Some visitors arrive on paws, others on hooves and a few simply slither in!
At Panthera Africa, we don’t kill snakes. When one needs moving away from our animals or busy areas, this hook helps our team relocate them carefully and humanely. They can then carry on with their important role in nature. Your gift helps us care for these unexpected visitors while protecting our animals and the humans who look after them. Even our neighbours without legs deserve kindness!
The hook extends to 153 cm and collapses to 88 cm for easy storage, weighing just 300 g.
Snake Bucket: A Safe Ride for Our Surprise Visitors
- Cost: R480 / US$31 for a 50-litre bucket
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Sometimes a visitor without legs needs a little help getting somewhere more suitable! This purpose-made bucket helps our team safely contain and transport smaller venomous snakes during relocation.
At Panthera Africa, we don’t kill snakes. We carefully move them when needed, protecting our animals and team while respecting the snakes’ place in nature. A secure clip-on lid, ventilation holes and transparent sides help our team keep an eye on their passenger along the way.
This 50-litre bucket weighs 1.4 kg and measures 50 cm high and 43 cm in diameter.
Your gift helps give our slithery neighbours a safe journey to a suitable natural habitat. Care comes in all shapes, even long, wriggly ones!
Snake Tongs: For Those “Look Who Dropped In!” Moments
- Cost: : R1,295 / $80
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Life at our sanctuary comes with a few unexpected visitors, including those who arrive without a single footstep!
These collapsible snake tongs help our team carefully capture and relocate snakes when they need moving away from our animals or busy areas. At Panthera Africa, we don’t kill snakes. Our slithery neighbours have an important place in nature too.
Your gift puts a practical tool in our team’s hands, helping protect our animals, our people and the snake itself. A little kindness for everyone, scales included!
The tongs extend to 110 cm, collapse to 85 cm for easy storage and weigh 540 g.
Cordless Clippers: A Little Less Fluff, a Little More Care!
- Cost: : R3,485 / $ 220
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Sometimes caring for a furry patient means clearing patches of fluff! These cordless clippers help our veterinary team trim fur where needed to prepare an animal for examination or treatment.
With no cord getting in the way and up to three hours of battery life, they’re a practical addition to our on-site veterinary clinic.
Your gift puts a useful tool in our team’s hands, helping them provide the care our animals need. A small patch of missing fur can be part of a much bigger act of kindness!
Fuel to Keep Our Pride Moving
- Purchase a fuel voucher to keep us moving. You choose how much to gift
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Our cats don’t drive, but their shopping list certainly keeps us on the road!
From collecting animal food and essential supplies to getting help in a veterinary emergency, fuel helps our team get where they need to be. It also powers equipment used to keep our sanctuary grounds well maintained.
Your gift helps keep our sanctuary running and our team equipped to provide everything our animals need to stay safe, comfortable and well cared for throughout their lives.
A little fuel from you helps us go a long way for them!
You Gift It, We Pick It!
- Purchase a gift voucher for our animals. You choose how much to gift
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What do you get for a pride with so many different needs? A little shopping freedom!
An ePetStore gift voucher lets our team choose the supplies our animals need most, whether we’re topping up everyday essentials or responding to an unexpected care need.
Your gift helps us keep useful supplies on hand and our whole pride well looked after. You choose the amount, we take care of the shopping!
Woolworths: A Little Treat for Our Human Pride!
- Gift a voucher to treat our team. You choose the amount
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Looking after our animals is hungry work! A Woolworths gift card helps provide food for the humans who put so much care into our sanctuary every day.
From something fresh for lunch to biscuits for a well-earned tea break, your gift is a lovely way to look after the people who look after our pride.
Checkers: A Little Spoil for Our Human Pride
- Gift a voucher to treat our team. You choose the amount
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What’s on our team’s shopping list? The makings of a good meal to keep them going!
A Checkers gift card helps us stock up on everyday groceries for our human pride. Your gift keeps the pantry stocked and our grocery budget going further, supporting the busy hands behind animal care, camp maintenance and all those daily sanctuary jobs.
Panacur: Helping Our Pride Feel Purr-fect!
- Cost: R5810.00 | $325.00 once a year
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Caring for our cats involves more than serving dinner and finding fun things for them to play with. Their health needs attention on the inside too!
Panacur forms part of their parasite care under the guidance of our specialist veterinarian, Dr Peter Caldwell of Old Chapel Veterinary Clinic. Your gift helps us provide this important treatment, supporting our cats’ health and comfort throughout their lives.
You can donate towards the cost directly to Panthera Africa and we’ll purchase it for our pride. You can also contact Old Chapel Veterinary Clinic to arrange a contribution.
Old Chapel Veterinary Clinic:
012 331 8279 or 012 331 7896
ProJoint: A Little Support for Every Stretch and Roll
- Cost: R3,850.00 | $215
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A lovely stretch, a roll in the grass or a wander to the perfect shady spot. Looking after our cats’ joints is part of caring for these everyday moments.
ProJoint is a joint supplement formulated by our specialist veterinarian, Dr Peter Caldwell of Old Chapel Veterinary Clinic. It forms part of the individual care we provide for cats who need extra joint support.
Your gift helps us look after their comfort and mobility throughout their lives. Those paws have places to be, even if it’s just the next snoozing spot!
You can donate towards ProJoint directly to Panthera Africa or contact Old Chapel Veterinary Clinic to arrange a contribution for our pride.
Old Chapel Veterinary Clinic:
012 331 8279 or 012 331 7896
Carnivore Adult Supplement: Extra Goodness in Every Bite
- Cost: R7650.00 | $425 per quarter
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What’s on the menu? A good meal with a little extra goodness!
Developed by our specialist veterinarian, Dr Peter Caldwell of Old Chapel Veterinary Clinic, Carnivore Adult Supplement contains vitamins and minerals specially formulated for captive carnivores. Added to our big cats’ food, it helps provide the nutrients they need as part of a balanced diet.
Your gift supports this everyday part of their lifelong care. It might not get the same attention as a new toy, but what goes into their dinner matters too!
You can donate towards the cost directly to Panthera Africa and we’ll purchase it for our pride. You can also contact Old Chapel Veterinary Clinic to arrange a contribution.
Old Chapel Veterinary Clinic:
012 331 8279 or 012 331 7896
SAMe Solal: Caring for the Mind Behind the Whiskers
- Cost: R1700.00 | $95 per month
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There’s a whole personality behind every pair of whiskers! Caring for our cats means looking after their mental and emotional wellbeing as well as their physical health.
SAMe Solal tablets are used under the guidance of our specialist veterinarian, Dr Peter Caldwell, to support brain function as part of their individual care.
Your gift helps us provide this extra support for the cats who need it, caring for everything that makes each one wonderfully themselves.t!
You can donate towards ProJoint directly to Panthera Africa or contact Old Chapel Veterinary Clinic to arrange a contribution for our pride.
Old Chapel Veterinary Clinic:
012 331 8279 or 012 331 7896
