Juhi Agrawal, who works at the Cheetah Experience in Bloemfontein, seems to have no qualms with letting the big cat jump on her as she waits on a raised platform in his cage.
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Pardus the leopard jumped up towards her, bounding off the fence and into Juhi's open arms.
As she and the camerawoman laugh, she kisses and strokes Pardus's head as he wiggles around.
Juhi has seen the cat almost everyday since she was born in March 2012, hence the leopard's happy reaction to her presence.
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And now the video of the two's encounter has gone viral, having more that 1.5 million views on YouTube to date.
The Cheetah Experience were forced to take Pardus out of the wild when her mother did not have enough milk to feed her. Later in her life, they hope to introduce her to a male leopard so that she can breed.
The charity take in endangered species, including lions, cheetahs, servals, caracals and wolves.
Take a look at the footage below.