Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest

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Today in memory of Paula Wade

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Paula Wade was a good friend to chimpanzees, including the Cle Elum Seven. She followed this blog  from the chimps’ arrival two years ago until her death one year ago on this day.

Paula was part of a network of chimpanzee fans and advocates, and this tribute is from fellow “chimp sister” Catherine Mollyneaux. Paula left behind many friends who cared for her very much.

We are so glad that Paula was a part of the Cle Elum Seven’s lives for their first year in sanctuary, and we thank Catherine for remembering Paula in this most appropriate and touching way.

Seattle Weekly web awards

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Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest is a finalist for a Seattle Weekly Best of the Web Award! We’re in the category of “Best Use of a Blog to Make Bank.” We’ll find out at an invite-only party on June 17th if we won.

Our friends at PAWS won the award for Best Online Presence – Nonprofit. Congrats to them and fingers crossed for us!

seattle weekly best of web logo

Jamie then and now

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Sanctuary supporter Tamela just sent me an email with the photos below – Jamie the day she arrived at the sanctuary, and the photo of Jamie that Jackie took yesterday.

These photos side by side brought tears to my eyes – tears of joy for the last two years that we’ve known Jamie at the sanctuary and tears of sadness for the first 30 years of Jamie’s life spent living with an animal trainer then in biomedical research.

I have a feeling that we will all be experiencing this mixed joy and sadness this whole week leading up to June 13, 2010 – the 2nd anniversary of the chimpanzees’ arrival.

Jamie before Jamie 2 years later

Thank you all for helping to make Jamie’s second chance at life possible.

Annie & Missy photo on Discover blog

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Yesterday, Candy alerted me to Sheril Kirshenbaum’s Discover blog asking for photos of kisses. Sheril has a new book coming out soon called The Science of Kissing, which features chimpanzees in a few chapters.

I submitted J.B.’s photo of Annie kissing Missy that we have available in our online store. Sheril liked it so much, she posted it to her blog today with links to our website to find out more about the sanctuary. Check out the blog post, feel free to leave a comment, and browse all of the kissing photos (Praire Dog Snog is pretty cute).

Breakfast forage!

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Summer has been slow to come to Cle Elum, but today was beautiful, so we set up a breakfast forage first thing. Included were frozen strawberries, grapes, chow biscuits, nuts,  smoothie in cups and fresh blades of grass. Everyone went for their favorites among the choices – Foxie for the grapes, Burrito for the chow biscuits, Jamie and Jody for the strawberries, Missy for smoothie, Annie for grass, and Negra for the nuts (while picking up grass for later).

Anonymous Sponsor-a-Day

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An anonymous generous donor has sponsored this day, June 4th 2010. Their donation helped us exceed our ultimate goal with our 2nd Anniversary Fundraising and inspired us to go for a fourth window!

Thank you to this anonymous donor, to  everyone who has helped with this fundraising effort and to everyone who has sponsored days of sanctuary throughout the year.

Just nine more days to go until the second anniversary of the chimpanzees’ arrival to sanctuary!