I need ideas on how to get a cheetah print on a buttercream cake? I wanted to use fondant for the prints? What do you think?

Here's a similar thread that might be useful:

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-619634-.html

How-to for fondant spotted cow cake:
(Similar to leopard spots if made smaller.)

http://www.pastrywiz.com/cakes/cowcake.htm

HTH

I made a Cheetah Girls cake (pink cheetah pattern) in buttercream which turned out fairly well. The pattern is small...I wish she had allowed me to make it larger...but we do what clients ask us to do, don't we?
http://www.sugarfrosted.com/displayimage.php?pos=-762
(click the picture to enlarge it to view detail more closely)

You should definitely make one! A Cheetah cake sounds super cute! Are you going to be sticking to the traditional Cheetah pattern?

And I love the cakes that SugarFrosted and JanH posted!