Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest

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Archives for August 2010

We need your vote!

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Help us win $5,000. Vote for us now. You can only vote once.

We have submitted as idea for the Justmeans $20,000 Digital Paperless Fundraising Challenge. As you know, we do almost all of our fundraising through our blog and social networking sites – no paper needed, thanks to you! One of our supporters alerted us to this contest for organizations doing just that – raising money without the direct-mail, paper-heavy approach.

We’re perfect for the contest and we have a strong submission focused on our recent Anniversary Fundraising. But we need your votes to get us back in the lead.

We want to win the $5,000 grand prize!

Please vote today and ask all of your friends to vote too. It only takes a minute to sign up and cast your vote for the chimps. You can only vote once, so if you’ve already voted – thank you!

Gene Hackman helping the Alamogordo Chimpanzees

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So far the NIH has not budged on their plans to transfer 202 chimpanzees from the Alamogordo Primate Facility to the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research.

The chimpanzees have gotten some celebrity support recently, though – Gene Hackman wrote a letter to the head of NIH asking to halt this transfer.  Check out this excerpt from his letter (it gave me chills in a good way):

“As you know, efforts to save the Alamogordo chimpanzee have drawn support from Gov. Bill Richardson, Sen. Tom Udall, and many other people around the state and across the country. I join them in urging you to fulfill the National Institutes of Health’s goal to ‘exemplify and promote the highest level of scientific integrity, public accountability, and social responsibility in the conduct of science’ by allowing these chimpanzees to live out their lives in the safety of a sanctuary.”

Read the full letter here: http://pcrm.org/resch/alamogordo/hackman.html

If you haven’t already, please contact the government about this issue. Your tax money is funding the laboratory housing and future experimentation on these chimpanzees.

Find out more ways you can help by following this blog for updates, as well as:

Project R&R

Animal Protection of New Mexico

Humane Society of the United States

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

Felicty Day Cinco

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Today is the fifth in a series of Felicity Days.

For her birthday this year, Felicity Wood did a great job of convincing her loved ones to donate to the sanctuary instead (or perhaps in addition to?) giving her birthday gifts. So, we are celebrating Felicity several days throughout the year. Today’s day is from Jinny & Darby, Felicity’s two Old English Sheepdogs. We’re not sure how they expressed what day they wanted to honor Felicity, but we suspect they’ll get an extra long walk today as a thank you for their generosity.

Happy Felicity Day Cinco from Negra! (this is one of Felicity’s favorite photos):

Negra black and white

Check out the Sponsor-a-Day calendar and pick a day for honoring a loved one, celebrating a special day in your life, or just let people know you’d like a couple of Sponsor-a-Days in your honor this year.

What big teeth you have

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Here’s a nice example of why you would never want to be bitten by a chimpanzee. It may look like Foxie is threatening to kill her troll doll, but I simply caught her in the middle of a yawn.

This photo also shows how chimpanzees – even tiny chimpanzees like Foxie – are able to fit so much food into their mouths. I have seen Foxie stuff eighteen pieces of monkey chow into her mouth at once (each piece is about the size of a walnut in the shell).

Foxie’s party post #2

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We put out tons of mirrors today because Foxie sometimes makes good use of them. But Jody was the one excited about them this morning!

I was very excited to capture this angle:

It’s not too late to make a $34 donation in Foxie’s honor today – you’ll get something fun in your inbox in return!