A fair amount of our blog posts are in celebration of our chimpanzee and bovine residents’ birthdays, as well as Sponsor a Days from generous humans wishing to celebrate their own special day or the birthday or memory of someone dear to them by sponsoring a day of sanctuary for the chimps and the cattle.
But starting today, we’d like to add something new and honor all of you out there, our amazing supporters, who have a June birthday!
It’s no small thing to us that you choose to follow, share, support and contribute, in a myriad of wonderful and inspiring ways, to Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest and all those who call this special place their home. *YOU* make every day in sanctuary for each chimpanzee and bovine here, and all those to come, possible. Your life makes a difference in their lives. And we’re so grateful to you.
For many years we’ve enjoyed signing and sending birthday cards to those of you who have chosen to share your birth date with us, just as a fun way to say we appreciate you and share images of the beautiful chimpanzees. As we continue to grow we want to make sure we are taking every opportunity to responsibly use (and/or reduce) resources of all kinds to the best of our ability. So we came up with the idea of transitioning to a monthly blog post to celebrate human birthdays. Now we get to celebrate all of you (whether you share your birthday or not) and we get to share even more images of wonderful chimps and bovines!
We also hope this gives us the chance to connect with you all even more, so please feel free to chime in on your, or anyone else’s, birthday month if you feel so inclined, let us know if you’re birthday “twins” with one of the chimpanzees or bovines, or maybe you share a birthday month with your Chimp Pal and/or Bovine Buddy. We’d love to hear from you!
So from all of us here, to all of you who celebrate, and are celebrated, in June, Happy Birthday hoots, moos and hoorays!! May you each celebrate what lifts your heart in your own special way.
June is a pretty big deal around here, so you chose a good month to be born. 😉 For exciting starters, you share a birthday month with sweet (soon to be home), Dora, who was born on June 6th!! Here’s Dora in her current home at the former Wildlife Waystation in California (same former home to Honey B, Willy B and Mave) and we just can’t wait to welcome her and her five friends, Cy, Lucky, Rayne, Terry and Gordo home in just a few weeks!
(*photo courtesy of Wildlife Waystation)
Next we have the effervescent Honey B herself, who is turning 32 on June 11th!
And as if that’s all not exciting enough, we will celebrate Queen Negra’s honorary 48th birthday on June 13th!
June 13th is also the anniversary of the seven’s arrival to the sanctuary in 2008 AND is this year’s date for our virtual live event, The Queen’s Brunch, a virtual anniversary and birthday celebration and online auction. Insider Tip: We’ll be making a special announcement during the event and we’d love to have you join us Sunday, June 13th at 11:00 AM PST (on Facebook and YouTube). We have so much to celebrate! Not least of all, YOU!
Well, June certainly is an explosion of everything wonderfu! Can’t wait for the 2d June arrival of new family members.
…”an explosion of everything wonderful.” That made me smile, Mo.
It is likely that today’s pace at the sanctuary will never be the same again….busy will not be an adequate word………!!!
It’s true, Tom! One of those good challenges to have. 🙂
Thanks for the nice post and great pictures, Katelyn! Happy Birthday to all June chimps and humans! It is so exciting that the Lucky 6 will arrive this month. We can only see the preparations CSNW has been making through the blog posts, but I can only imagine all the behind-the-scenes efforts this has taken and will continue to take. 6 is a big jump! From my “from afar” observation, the 6 truly are lucky that they will be in the care of CSNW and your team of truly caring, dedicated and experienced caregivers. Thanks to all of you for everything you do and go through to give these deserving chimps the best possible life.
Thanks so much, Darcy! Six *is* a big jump! But we’re ready, thanks to all of you, and can’t wait! 🙂
Dora is a beautiful chimp, I can’t wait to learn more about her. Glad to share a birthday month with her 😉
You guys think of everything. Monthly hoots, moos, and cheers to those celebrating birthdays sounds like fun. Mo said it best….June will be “an explosion of everything wonderfu!”
Oh yay, I will be sharing my month of June birthday with another adorable Chimp, Dora. I hope my pal Honey B doesn’t read this, she wouldn’t want me calling anyone else adorable. I’m so excited to see the new residents. Will someone from Cle Elum be picking them up or will they be personally delivered? Can’t wait!
Nancy, I suspect Honey B well knows there is no other Honey B. She sure should. 🙂 Their transportation is going to be a group effort which we will be part of.
June certainly is a special month for birthdays as I have 4 family members and a very special friend with birthdays this month and now I can add these special babies to my birthday list!!! Happy birthday everyone
Wow, Robyn! You can celebrate all month long! 😉