Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest

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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).

Today in honor of Kaite McGrew

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Thank you, Kaite McGrew for sponsoring today and helping the Cle Elum Seven continue to lives filled with variety, enriching experiences, play and love! Every single donation to the sanctuary helps us to fulfill our mission, and we couldn’t do it without supporters (and Facebook fans!) like you.

Anyone can sponsor a day of sanctuary! Visit the Sponsor-a-Day section of our donation info page.

Who’s Burrito’s biggest fan?

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Tamela is looking for Burrito’s biggest fan to buy a one-of -a-kind handmade Burrito belt buckle (see photo below).

She also has very cool paperweights for sale in her online Etsy shop with interchangeable photos of the Cle Elum Seven, so you can spend each day with a different chimpanzee image!

For other fun stuff to support the chimps:

Cindy still has some of her adorable beaded bracelets available in her Etsy shop – get your Burrito, Negra, Missy, Foxie, Annie, Jody or Jamie bracelet today!

and don’t forget about Jeani’s Firstgiving page with the woodburned pins as a thank you for your donation

and Margaret Parkinson’s Firstgiving page with a card with a print of one of her amazing paintings as a thank you for a donation

And Pam Lehnert’s Firstgiving page and offer to transform your space for a donation to the sanctuary.

After Pam worked her magic

So many fun ways to support the chimps for our 2nd Anniversary Fundraising drive! Thank you, everyone, for your hard work and great ideas and for those who have supported these supporters!

banana update – $36,627 raised

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With Karen and Don Young’s generous match for each new goal we reach towards our 2nd Anniversary Fundraising, we have just $873 to go to reach $40,000 and 2 caged windows replaced by bullet proof glass and $3,373 to go to reach our ultimate goal and replace three caged-windows windows.

Thanks so much to everyone who has donated and raised funds so far!

Only 27 days to reach the ultimate goal!