We will never truly know what it is about Foxie’s treasured dolls that she loves so much.
We will never know what she is thinking when she is gazing at them.
We will never know what tales she weaves when she is interacting with her dolls.
Do they speak to her?
Do they have individual personalities?
What we do know is that Foxie is a unique chimpanzee. We love her exactly as she is.
We are so happy she found something that provides endless entertainment and makes her feel safe and happy:
Wonderful photos and we all do wonder what’s going on with her obsession with dolls.
If it is possible, I hope that Foxie gets to see these photographs of her and her dolls. She looks so happy, and her smile is luminous.
Foxie is truly a survivor. She is sn excellent mother. As such, she was broken each time a baby was taken from her. Just thinking about it sickens me. Of all 7 chimps, when she arrived, she was not interested in enrichment until she found a troll doll. Look at the face- a troll looks like a baby chimp. Something clicked and that was it. She began to heal. I will never firget meeting Foxie for the first time. We brought a stuffed chimp for each chimp. Foxie wanted hers right away so it was thrown into the green house to her. She proceeded to kill this interloper who threatened her and her troll bsby. She pulled out the eyes, tore off the limbs, threw it on the ground and stomped on it. When she was done, she put the troll doll on her back and walk away a victor. She would have made the best mother to her live baby chimps, but she survives with tremendous joy because she now has all the babies she wants and no one takes them from her. Foxie is the most amazing example of how to carry on when, as a mom, the worst thing in the world happens, you lose a child.
Thank you for that sharing that memory…..and thank you for how you support CSNW.
That’s beautiful
Karen and Don, I suspect that many of us did not know the stuffed chimpanzee story (I certainly did not.) How revealing and curious it is! We humans probably thought, well it looks like a chimpanzee, why did she destroy it? But Foxie saw and felt something else, something that none of us caught onto at first. An interloper, an intruder, a fake. Not known and not to be trusted. (I am guessing).
And then these curious trolls came along. What a beautiful surprise they turned out to be! Who in the world have thought it? Today’s gorgeous pictures tell Foxie’s love story like a poem. She sees and hears and feels what we do not, and we admire and love her passionately for that. Humans are too wrapped up in words and strapped down by inhibitions. Foxie teaches us how to love generously and without hesitation.
What an angel and what a wise teacher. A beautiful warm and touching post needing few words.
Thank you so very much.
Thank you, Diana! What wonderful pictures into the life of Foxie!!
It is bittersweet. It’s so sad to hear about the terrible losses she has had in her life, but there is so much love and joy in her face when she is with her dolls-incredible photos! (I think I would buy a whole calendar just of Foxie and her troll dolls, if one ever was available) Thank you for sharing these.
She is so wise that we do not have to ask these questions!
Foxie seems so much like us. Don’t we all have secret relationships? I do, with my dogs. No one knows what we are thinking when we gaze at each other. No one knows the tales I weave and whisper into their soft ears. Do they speak to me? You bet! The real beauty about Foxie and her dolls is that CSNW gave her the freedom to discover what wonderful friends dolls can be. Thank you Dianna and everyone at CSNW for giving Foxie her new family, her happy safe home, and most of all… her freedom to be this beautiful Foxie person she has become.
These are such beautiful pictures and the last one just warms my heart. Foxie & her “babies” are just the sweetest thing to watch….
P.S. Not to take anything away from the other Cle Elum 7 but this post is so beautiful about the beautiful Foxie, might you put together a little booklet of photos to sell? I think you would be surprised — or maybe not!! — how many of us would buy it.
To me at least, it represents everything that CSNW and sanctuary is about.
Foxie is a true mother, you can see it in her eyes and everything she does. This melts my heart to see pictures like these. I love to watch her reactions to different dolls, some with hair, some without, some with clothes, some without, LOVE LOVE LOVE her!!!