Breakfast is a very exciting meal for the chimps. And why wouldn’t it be? What is more exciting than fruit, smoothie, vitamins, chow, and peanuts? Today the chimps had bananas, plums, and a banana & peanut butter smoothie. Below are a collection of photos from today’s beautiful crisp fall morning at CSNW!
Negra enjoying breakfast:
Foxie holding one of her new dolls:
Burrito eating some chow:
Annie eating her chow on Young’s Hill:
They all look quite satisfied with their meal. Do I detect a trace of a smile upon the Queen’s Royal visage?
Ha! I thought the EXACT same thing! Then began wondering which of the chimps is guilty of smiling the most. 🙂
Yum, who doesn’t love fruit smoothies? I wonder if the chimps ever got any treats during their years in prison? Do you even know what their diet consisted of before they came to the sanctuary? By the before and after photos, it doesn’t appear that they had very good diets at all and of course, no exercise. 🙁
I’m still so grateful that you have given them their lives back with such love, compassion, good, healthy food, dignity, sunshine, fresh air, comfort, and the right to make their own choices above all! Oh and all those warm, fleecy blankets, wonderful enrichment, parties and toys! 🙂
They get all their highly impacted ingrients In one cup tht can keep their energy level for a couple of hours. Best use when ripen to use fruits, veggies and other items that can go bad in days. So stick those over ripe ones in and it makes it’s sweeter for them. While I’m sitting here eating a burrito.
Have a question not regarding food, but do chimps bathe? I know Annie takes care of that beautiful face.
I really hope you don’t mind, but seeing Burrito-toes eating his favourite primate chow reminds me of the very first portrait of the seven that I ever did (with many more to come very soon!). I donated it to the Summer Biddin’ Online Auction, and it raised $1,285. The owner continues to be so grateful that she still writes to say thank-you! She’s got it hanging in such a way that it’s the first thing she sees each day and the last thing she sees each night. As an artist, that makes my heart SING!
Knowing how they were used for bio-medical testing, and that I suffer Systemic Lupus, well, made this an extremely emotional portrait to paint, to say the very least. I cried through most of its numerous hours, and that was daily for long stretches of time.
But, I’m SO happy to be able to share it with you now!!! The name of the piece is “I Am the Burrito”, a nod to the fabulous John Lennon’s “I Am the Walrus”. Once you see how B-man is eating the chow, you’ll understand why.
I hope it makes y’all as happy as it does his current owner, and me as I painted it and had the sheer joy of dealing with the sanctuary owners to get it into their hands.
(My next sanctuary piece is of Queen Negra, in a breathtaking pose next to a…well, I don’t want to spoil the surprise! You’ll have to simply click on my name above, like my page, and then follow her progress. 😉 )
ENJOY Mr. Burrito-toes in all his goofy glory!
http://bit.ly/IAmTheBurrito
Love the photos, especially Ms. Negra with her banana. She looks like she is thinking about you serving her the nut bags! : )