Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest
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As the video illustrates, Burrito was in high spirits today as we celebrated his 35th birthday. He is the epitome of being young at heart. Just when you think you couldn’t love him any more he does something else to irrevocably endear himself, like eating lettuce with never-before-seen abandon or practically jumping right out of his skin with excitement.
Burrito’s friend Kimberly sponsored today in his honor! It’s pretty difficult to believe that goofy, playful, rambunctious Burrito is 35 today. He’s come a long way since he and the six female chimpanzees arrived at the sanctuary in 2008. He had a lot to overcome – you can read about his history on this page.
We are catering the day to him today and will post later about how we celebrated Burrito’s birthday in the way we think he would appreciate the most.
Thank you for sponsoring the day for the one and only lovable Burrito Chimpanzee, Kimberly.
Kery and Terran, who also sponsored yesterday, spread the love over to today too.
Here is there message for the first day of 2018:
Hopefully, you’ve all seen our State of the Sanctuary video. Just in case you haven’t, it’s posted at the end of this blog post.
As you’ll learn in the video, together, we’ll be working on lots of new and exciting things to come.
We so appreciate the chimpanzees, who provide inspiration every day, and everyone who loves them, including Kery and Terran!
Sanctuary friends Kery and Terran sponsored today, New Year’s Eve Day, with this lovely message:
“For the Chimps, the staff and the volunteers of CSNW. All is calm, all is bright. Wishing you much love and joy during this holiday season! Love & Gratitude, Kery & Terran”
We’re wishing you the same!
Here are some calm and bright moments with the chimpanzees from this year:
Jamie in her tunnel hideout:
Negra sleeping while wrapped in a red blanket:
Burrito and Missy grooming:
This morning I took this photo of Negra:
It’s not the greatest quality because i took it with my somewhat outdated phone.
It got me thinking about this photo that I took last week while Negra sat in the same spot eating a pomegranate:
For fun, I did a search for photos labeled with the words “Negra” and “arms crossed” and I found some of my favorite photos of this iconic queen of the sanctuary. Enjoy!
I hope that you are having a Negra kind of a day – resting comfortably and just being yourself. And I hope you’ll take a moment to support Negra and her friends before midnight tomorrow by making a donation towards our $20,000 year-end goal. We’re about 40% of the way there so far!
Foxie wanted to send a big Happy Birthday to her pal Tracy, who sponsored today’s day of sanctuary!
Tracy, Foxie hopes that your day is full of (figurative) back-flips and pirouettes and lots of (actual) laughter and joy!
The current state of the sanctuary, in this moment, is a 100% chance of snow with Jamie spending the day with her books. She’s still thoroughly enamored with the Lola ya Bonobo Sanctuary book and is also enjoying her new boot and shoe books.
I just snapped this photo of Jamie’s nest in the playroom:
She left her cozy nest long enough to throw me one of her new boots so that I could put it on and play a game of indoor chase for a few minutes.
For a bigger picture view of the State of the Sanctuary and the super exciting plans for the future, watch this video!
And then make a year-end gift to help us reach the goal of $20,000 raised in the next four days before the clock strikes midnight and the calendar turns to 2018.
