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More love for Vicki

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Everyone knows that birthdays should be extended for as long as possible, right?! Certainly the chimpanzees would agree with this:

 

Because Vicki’s birthday yesterday was a special one and she has many people in her life that care about her (count all of the primates at CSNW in that list!), we have a second Sponsor a Day celebrating her birthday yesterday.

This one is from Mary Fagerlee with this message, “We want to honor our sister-in-law Vicki Fagerlee on her birthday. She is an awesome addition to our family, and it’s perfect to add to Jim and Kim’s sponsorship of her day to her chimp family!”

So, happy continued birthday, Vicki!

 

Happy Birthday to Julie Poppoff!

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The Poppoffs are a one of our favorite families, so we’re pretty happy to be a part of wishing Julie Poppoff a “Happy Birthday from Mom & Dad!” from Mike Poppoff and Gay Dorsey who sponsored this day of sanctuary in her honor.

We go way back with the Poppoffs. as you can see in this post from 2009. The Poppoffs and Poppoff, Inc. have been really great supporters over the years, including being a sponsor for galas many years running, including the HOOT! 2018 gala coming up in May!

But today is about Julie. The chimps hope you have some fun planned, July!

Burrito and some carrots

Burrito's 35th Birthday Bash!

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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 34th Birthday Bash

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Burrito is so easy to shop for. All he ever wants for his birthday is food.

The other chimps were more than happy to help him celebrate.

Of course, it’s not a real party until someone gets upset. Even when there’s more than enough to go around, someone (ahem, Jamie) has to take more than their fair share.

Thankfully, Jody was mature enough to extend an olive branch to Jamie and move on. Jody should be awarded some kind of medal for what she puts up with.

Burrito managed to avoid the camera most of the day, but rest assured, he ate enough to last him until next January. Now, it’s time to sleep it off. Happy 34th, big guy.

Video: the drama of Jamieween!

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The video below shows just some of the highlights of Jamieween (turn up the volume if you want the addition of music to add to the drama).

 

 

In addition to the fun adventures in the video, Jamie received not one, not two, not even three, but four pairs of new cowboy boots from her fan club of supporters.

One of Jamie’s top favorite foods is pears, so I decided to hide a whole pear in one of her new boots – sort of both a trick and a treat.

She immediately took that pair of boots, inspected, and nested with them:

Jamie inspecting new boot

Jamie nesting

 

She even tried one on:

Jamie trying on boot

 

But, apparently it wasn’t the one with the pear, because the pear was still in the boot when I went into the playroom later that day to spot clean. I was shocked!

It took another couple of hours, but Jamie did finally find her birthday treat.

 

Jamie eating pear

Thank you to everyone who made this a special day for boss Jamie and us humans who had the privilege of celebrating with her!