Shelly Campbell emailed earlier today with a great notion – if everyone who regularly reads the blog gave a few bucks towards Burrito’s birthday, we could throw him one heck of a party. There’s not much time – his birthday is January 6th. Shelly’s already mailed a check for $10. If anyone’s interested in contributing toward the Burrito Birthday fund, you can donate online or by mail (PO Box 952, Cle Elum, WA 98922). If you want, you can respond to this post and let us know you’re sending some celebratory funds this way. We will, of course, share the party with you. Burrito cannot contain his excitement, and we’re sure to get some great footage of the birthday boy in action.
I know Burrito has a big fan club out there – he’s a pretty loveable guy. Even his chimpanzee friends would agree (below is a photo from today of Missy grooming him, with Annie looking on).
and don’t forget you can get note cards with Burrito’s handsome face (see below) in our store
Thank you Diana …my card went out today with his birthday money and also the candle money!
Burrito is such the handsome young man, he is so cute and lovable, I told Tamela I would really love to buy him a recliner to watch TV and then hand him the remote!!!
I just sent $10 via PayPal. Its from my girls…They are excited to be able to help Burrito celebrate 🙂
Also Diana, I know everyone loves our Burrito, if you do not get enough let me know and I will send more at the last minute if you need so, I want their birthdays to be so very special and this is the 1st real birthday party for Burrito, so please let me know!
Thanks Amy and tell your girls thank you….I think Burrito and the girls are going to have a wonderful celebration!
Oh this is a fabulous idea. I will definitely donate for this party. How fun! I have to tell everyone I just get giddy thinking about each new blog post and all the great happenings at the sanctuary. And the mirror! How awesome is that?
donation on it’s way right now! xo
Count me in too! He’s out numbered by the ladies, he needs his special day too!
I’m in for $20, mailing it tomorrow, Wednesday. Burrito’s coat, in the top picture, has filled in very well, it looks thick and soft. You handsome chimpanzee you.
I’m in for $10 – I’ll do it online tonight.
Now that we have another Amy on the board I’ll be Amy M to minimize any confusion!
I’ve been meaning to mention this for a while. It’s a bit insignificant, but people who study primates get hung up on certain things, and I figure I owe it to you all to let you in on these things. Chimpanzee hair is similar to the hair we have on our bodies. It differs from fur in a couple of ways – one is that it does not provide the same protection against heat, cold, and water as a coat of fur does (although it helps – my head stays warmer than J.B.’s because I have more hair 🙂 Chimpanzee hair, like our body hair, is not the same as the hair we have on our heads because it stops growing and falls out at a certain length. All that said, the chimpanzees are definitely growing in hair where it was missing before and they look much healthier because of it!
Other things we primate people get hung up on – calling apes monkeys, not including humans in the great ape family, grouping gibbons with monkeys rather than apes, and I’m sure lots of other facts that are not coming to mind right away and that you’d have to learn to know. JGI’s website is pretty good for the basic facts on chimpanzees, like this page: http://www.janegoodall.ca/about-chimp-physical-characteristics.php. Someday we’ll have a lot more basic information on our website too. Please feel free to send me questions for an FAQ section that now only exists in my head! [email protected]
I am in for 20.00.. doing on line now..Happy Birthday Burrito! and many thanks to all of you that take care of these wonderful Chimps and letting us watch videos and see pictures of daily activities
Thanks again
Wendy
I just mailed a $10.00 check for the beautiful birthday boy.
In the words of John Lennon-
“Before you go to sleep,
Say a little prayer,
Every day in every way,
It’s getting better and better,
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful,
Beautiful Boy”
Thnak you everyone and thanks Diana for the post! When I am watching youtube (for instance) and I see people calling Great Apes Monkeys, I always have to correct them….cannot help it, you know me, I have to say it! I have received so many emails from people some liking the correction others well you can only imagine! I have printed off pretty much all of R & R s website and JaneGoodalls wedsite and have a 6 inch binder that I keep everything in, Iread the websites over and over. I asked Roslyn sho was the one at Fauna that loved to wear her red lipstick, she siad to ask you as you and JB worked in the chimp houses, who is that Diana, she loved red lipstick and looking in the mirror making sure she looked pretty??? She just reminded me so much of Jamie, do you think so too?
We will send $20 via paypal…..$10 from each of us. Happy Birthday Burrito. I bet he would like a whole library of DVDs for his birthday! Thanks for the idea Shelly.
Diana I have an ideal for birthdates…because you only have Foxie and Burritos birthdates, and we need a birthday for everyone, this is their new life their new beginning and we need to celebrate for each one…Virgil, Annies son, his birthday is 6/20/89 , I celebrate my son that I lost on his birthday, maybe we can use the first born child of each chimp’s birthdate, so we have a birthdate to celebrate for them???? How does that sound????
Thanks to everyone for your generosity and desire to help Burrito celebrate his birthday! It’s going to be quite the bash indeed! Thanks Shelly for the idea too 🙂
We’ve been talking about different ways to choose birthdays for the five chimpanzees whose birthdays we don’t know – thanks for the idea, Shelly. We’ll let you know what we come up with.
Diana, Thank you for your two points about hair and grouping apes vs monkeys, etc. One could argue over whether the facts about chimp hair are insignifcant; certainly species groupings are very important. But I personally want to learn it all. I’ll speak just for myself: I feel the more I learn about our chimp people the better friend I can be to them and the better advocate I can be for them. So bring it all on!
Just submitted my donation on line. (I put Burrito’s Birthday Bash in the notes). Can’t wait for the pictures!
Diana, thank you for the notes about Apes vs. Monkeys. Although I did know the basic differences, I didn’t know the stuff about fur and hair. I’m always learning something!
Anything I can do to help Diana! I know when it comes to parties it is expensive and we all are like the Aunts and Uncles of the chimps so it only seems fair that we help throw the party, I think when you come up with the birthdates for everyone we should make this Birthday Bash a standard blog so we can ensure a wonderful dinner/party for our wonderful seven! Maybe next time we can start like 2 weeks ahead so we amke sure to collect all we can for gifts, food and decorations! Thank you Diana and everyone that is chipping in! HAPPY NEW YEAR! May 2009 bring nothing but happiness, great health and more wonderful new things for the Cle Elum Seven and the other Great Apes and Primates in the United States of America that need our help in releasing them to sanctuary!
I so agree with you Amy M. I want to learn as much as possible to be a better advocate. And thank you Diana. I think a link on your web page to learn all about the chimp people. Count me in on the Burrito bash! I will bring $10 over on the 3rd. That is such wonderful idea!
All the new photos are so good to see. It keeps me closer to everyone while I’m out of town.
I called Chris, the Manager at Safeway in Cle Elum to maybe start a credit account for CSNW, he said we can call in with a credit card and give an ammount over the phone BUT you have to go to a Safeway so they can verify your ID and CC#…just a thought!
Safeway
804 W. !st Street
Cle Elum, WA
(509)674-2580
I am going to call him tomorrow Diana and put $50.00 on your account so you can shop for food!
Shelly C What a thoughtful idea. I am a bit confused though. Do you mean Diana, or any of the staff, has to go to the Safeway with her ID and CC# or we have to go to our Safeway with our ID to put money in the Cle Elum account?
i MADE IT $100.00 …I told them Diana Goodrich would be picking it up or someone from CSNW! It is available now! Because I cannot send a gift for Burrito! They said just go to Customer Service and it will be there for you!
They did it iver the phone with me, I have a VIP Safeway card, so I talked to Chris and he approved it, they just did a $100 giftcard over the phone and I told them there might be more people calling in with donations, they said fine and I do not have to go to the Safeway Store with my ID. Anyone of the staff from CSNW can pick up the giftcards, I gave them Diana, Sarah, JB or Keiths name to put on the card!
oh wow this is great! I didn’t even know this was happening and I already mailed out a birthday card to Burrito with $30. in it yesterday for it to get there in time next week! I didn’t earmark it for Burrito’s b-day bash, it was for the sanctuary, so however you want to use it!woo-hoo – GO BURRITO!
oh and also:
~~HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARGARET!
Hope you make it to the sanctuary today (can’t think of a better birthday gift than to spend it with the CE7!)
BEST WISHES & MANY CHEERS!!
oh and curious george is not a monkey! (smile emoticon here!)
Add another $10 to the birthday bash account from me – I will drop it off with the video and recipe notebook when I come through Roslyn this weekend… that is, if we can make it out from under all this snow!
Happy New Year, Everyone!
What an amazing group of people you all are! Thanks, CSNW for uniting us, your “tribe” of aunties and uncles and including us in so many ways. This is a club I am loving being a member of and in my opinion, its an honor to be a part of.
Love to all, Happy New Year and Happy Birthday Burrito! I send my donation online so you guys should have it.
I also bought him Jane Goodhalls Wild Chimpanzees DVD-hopefully it will get there in time for the big day-have to admit I opened it an watched it, I couldn’t resist!!
Hopefully Burrito won’t mind!
Ps sorry for all the typos, I’m on my blackberry typing this! Xo
That is so funny Courtney….I would have done the same thing! I had Shrek and Charlottes Web in my cart the other day, but I wanted to make sure they like the animated ones and cartoons before I start buying them.
Well, since I am new to the “family” this is a wonderful time for me to see how much you all have accomplished over the past year or so, and see the transformation in the chimps. My biggest celebration is that the chimps got to be outside for the first time on my birthday, August 26th! Every year now I’ll celebrate the anniversary of their first view of sunshine as my birthdays highlight! It will always be a sunny day!
Congratulations to all of you who have worked so hard, and to the chimps, who, even with all they have been through, still find moments to laugh!
Michelle C
RRD
Shelly, think whoever made the suggestion about a running dvd list wiykd be giid- if there is someway we could know what everyone else is sending we will avoid duplicates. I bet they will LOVE the cartoons- keep me posted as to what the feedback is!!
I know Diana has started something on the forum…Tamela is the Author of the forum and Diana made a reply as to how she will handle the DVD’s
I was so happy to be able to put up my CSNW calendar yesterday! The pictures are great!! Now I can look at Burrito’s handsome face on the wall every day in January! Jim & I are putting a check for $20.00 & a birthday card for Burrito in the mail today. We hope this is the first of many, many very Happy Birthdays that he will celebrate in Cle Elum!! Have fun at your Birthday Party, Burrito!!
I hope you have a wonderful birthday tomorrow, Burrito! In honor of your big day, I made my Chimpanzee Pal pledge in honor of you. 🙂 A heartfelt thank you to everyone working so hard to give Annie, Burrito, Foxie, Jamie, Jodie, Missy, and Negra lives full of love and compassion.
Vicki
What a great gift Vicki!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BURRITO!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU !!!!! AND MANY MORE!!!!
Happy Birthday Big Boy….many hugs and kisses to you baby! I hope today brings you so much joy~~have fun!
XOXO Shelly C
Happy Birthday you wonderful boy! Have fun at your party and I will be there with you in spirit!
Happy Birthday Burrito! Have a fun day, eat lots of your favorite things, and jump around hooting all day for me! I will be seeing you soon, and you will be in my thoughts today, big boy!