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Who’s in your wallet

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This is in response to a question from Shari on the last post. Below are the images of all of the credit card options with the chimpanzees names above them. We can only have five designs at a time, and Jody is not one of the images. I decided since her image is on most of our merchandise (t-shirts, soon-to-be-added bumper stickers, and tote bags), it was okay to leave her out of this first round of designs. Thanks for helping out the sanctuary by applying for one of these cards!

Burrito

Negra

Missy and Annie

Foxie

Jamie

CSNW featured in Seattle Metropolitan Magazine

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Really great article: http://www.seattlemet.com/issues/archives/articles/chimpanzee-sanctuary-northwest-1209/

It’s hot off the presses (or at least recently uploaded to the world wide web) and the print version should be all over the Seattle area soon. Please share on your Facebook and Twitter pages and send to all of your contacts (you can do that by clicking “Email” or “Share This” at the top of the article when you go to the link). It not only tells the story of CSNW, but also the broader plight of chimpanzees in captivity.

I only wish Jamie knew how famous she is.

Missy then and now

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Every once in a while it’s good to look back to see how far we’ve come. Though we are very focused on the future – the next celebration, the next event, the next fundraising initiative, the next building improvement, etc, looking back can be really motivating.

One way to do this is to see how much the chimpanzees have changed since their arrival to Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest.

The below “before” and “after” photos appear in the 2010 calendar, which you can purchase through the online store (and, yes, I am looking forward to lots of people buying the calendar and sharing the Cle Elum Seven with friends, family and coworkers this year!)

Missy on her first day at CSNW, after years of living as a biomedical research subject and “breeder”

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Missy after one year in sanctuary

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Sponsor the auction – get some cool stuff

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We’re looking for sponsors for the Oct. 2nd Celebrate the Seven auction so that all expenses are paid and all money raised will go directly to the sanctuary, and we want to give you some pretty great stuff for your sponsorship dollars. We already have some amazing auction items (more on that later), and it is going to be one heck of a gala event! Expenses are starting to accrue, though, and we need more sponsors! We are looking for both business and individual sponsors, each come with thier own set of benefits. I’ve pasted the benefit information below and included a link to download the pdf versions of the benefit documents. You can also download the pdfs from our event page.

Please email if you are personally interested or know of any businesses that may be interested in getting some good karma, some recognition and some unique benefits  in exchange for their sponsorship.

Thanks!

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Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest
2009 Auction Celebrate the Seven

Individual Sponsor Benefits

$5,000 – Pant Hoot Sponsors
•    Verbal recognition/thanks at beginning of auction
•    Full page recognition in auction catalogue
•    Recognition on CSNW Facebook page
•    Recognition on event signage (including screen projection)
•    Recognition in Aug. 09, Sept. 09 and Oct. ’09 enewsletter
•    Recognition as “pant hoot sponsor” on all blog posts related to the event (minimum of 10 posts)
•    Recognition as “pant hoot sponsor” on Twitter tweets about event (minimum of 20 tweets with 3 Friday Favorites)
•    Framed chimpanzee portrait with personal acknowledgment
•    Opportunity to hold private tour of the sanctuary for 2 people
•    Complimentary CSNW merchandise: 5 t-shirts, 5 tote bags, 5 packs of note cards

$1,000 – Food Squeak Sponsors
•    Verbal recognition/thanks at beginning of auction
•    Recognition in auction catalogue
•    Recognition on CSNW Facebook page
•    Recognition on event signage (including screen projection)
•    Recognition in CSNW Sept. 09 and Oct. ’09 enewsletter
•    Recognition on at least 5 blog posts related to the event
•    Recognition on at least 7 Twitter tweets about event (including one Friday Favorite)
•    Complimentary invitation to the next CSNW event
•    Complimentary CSNW merchandise: 4 t-shirts, 3 tote bags, 2 packs of note cards

$500 – Play Laugh Sponsors
•    Verbal recognition/thanks at beginning of auction
•    Recognition in auction catalogue
•    Recognition on CSNW Facebook page
•    Recognition on event signage (including screen projection)
•    Recognition in CSNW Sept. 09 and Oct. ’09 enewsletter
•    Recognition on minimum of 3 blog posts related to the event
•    Recognition on minimum of 5 Twitter tweets about event
•    Complimentary CSNW merchandise: 2 t-shirts, 2 tote-bags

$250 – Play Face Sponsors
•    Recognition in auction catalogue
•    Recognition on CSNW Facebook page
•    Recognition on event signage (including screen projection)
•    Recognition in CSNW Sept. 09 and Oct. ’09 enewsletter
•    Complimentary CSNW merchandise: 1 t-shirt, 1 tote bag

$100 – Head Nod Sponsors
•    Recognition in auction catalogue
•    Complimentary CSNW merchandise:  1 pack of note cards

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Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest
2009 Auction Celebrate the Seven

Business Underwriter Benefits

Presenting / Major Underwriters

$10,000 –Sanctuary Presenting Sponsor
•    Event title recognition with logo (“CSNW Auction presented by XXX”) on all materials including electronic invitations, website, and promotions
•    Verbal recognition/thanks at beginning of auction
•    Recognition in auction catalogue
•    Recognition on CSNW Facebook page
•    Recognition on event signage (including screen projection)
•    Recognition in CSNW enewsletter for 12 months
•    Logo and link on CSNW website for 12 months
•    Logo and link on all blog posts related to the event (minimum of 10 posts)
•    Recognition  on Twitter tweets about event (minimum of 20 tweets)
•    Complimentary double-truck ad in auction catalogue
•    Framed chimpanzee portrait with personal acknowledgment
•    Opportunity to hold private tour of the sanctuary for 6 people
•    Complimentary invitations to future CSNW events
•    Complimentary CSNW merchandise: 10 t-shirts, 10 tote bags, 10 packs of note cards

$5,000 – Chimpanzee Advocate
•    Verbal recognition/thanks at beginning of auction
•    Recognition in auction catalogue
•    Recognition on CSNW Facebook page
•    Recognition on event signage (including screen projection)
•    Recognition in CSNW enewsletter for 12 months
•    Complimentary full-page ad in auction catalogue
•    Logo and link on CSNW website for 12 months
•    Logo and link on most blog posts related to the event (minimum of 7 posts)
•    Recognition  on Twitter tweets about event (minimum of 15 tweets)
•    Logo recognition on all promotional materials (ads, flyers, posters)
•    Framed chimpanzee portrait with personal acknowledgment
•    Opportunity to hold private tour of the sanctuary for 2 people
•    Complimentary invitations to future CSNW events
•    Complimentary CSNW merchandise: 5 t-shirts, 5 tote bags, 5 packs of note cards

Event Sponsor Benefits

$1,000 – Chimpanzee Champion
•    Verbal recognition/thanks at beginning of auction
•    Recognition in auction catalogue
•    Recognition on CSNW Facebook page
•    Recognition on event signage (including screen projection)
•    Recognition in CSNW enewsletter for 6 months
•    Complimentary 1/2 page ad in auction catalogue
•    Logo and link on CSNW website for 6 months
•    Logo and link on some blog posts related to the event (minimum of 3 posts)
•    Recognition  on Twitter tweets about event (minimum of  5 tweets)
•    Recognition on all promotional materials (ads, flyers, posters)
•    Complimentary CSNW merchandise: 4 t-shirts, 3 tote bags, 2 packs of note cards

$500 –  Chimpanzee Fan
•    Verbal recognition/thanks at beginning of auction
•    Recognition in auction catalogue
•    Recognition on CSNW Facebook page
•    Recognition on event signage (including screen projection)
•    Recognition in CSNW Sept. 09 and Oct. ’09 enewsletter
•    Complimentary 1/4 page ad in auction catalogue
•    Complimentary CSNW merchandise: 2 t-shirts, 2 tote bags

Mmmm… dinner

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One of the most important aspects of sanctuary life is variety. And one of the most exciting times for chimpanzees is mealtime. Our staff and volunteers delight in creating dinners that are always a little different. The food grunts and squeaks that the chimpanzees make are a pretty good reward for the effort, I’d say.

more on Travis and pet ownership

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Although much of the coverage on the tragedy of Travis, the chimpanzee in Connecticut who mauled Charla Nash and was subsequently shot and killed, has been frustrating to say the least, there have been a couple of good interviews included in media items very recently which I wanted to share.

This video segment includes an interview from an expert at Save the Chimps Sanctuary in Florida.

This article adds more information to the bigger story. Here’s are a few excerpts from the article:

“A chimpanzee who was shot and killed earlier this week for mauling a Connecticut woman was the offspring of a chimpanzee who made headlines eight years ago when a Festus teenager shot and killed her…..

In 2001, Travis’ 28-year-old mother, Suzy, escaped from Connie Braun Casey’s farm along Highway CC near Festus…..

April Truitt, a primate expert who runs the Kentucky-based Primate Rescue Center Inc., said chimps are too wild to be privately owned. She put more blame on the Caseys for the Connecticut incident than on Herold. She said the Caseys should not have been breeding and selling chimps.”

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You can read my reaction to the mauling in this post from Tuesday. One aspect of this story that has not been getting enough coverage is how the demand for chimpanzee “actors” helps to fuel breeding operations like Connie Casey’s. Chimpanzees should not be pets, should not be used in entertainment, and should not be used in biomedical research. There is no legitimate reason for a chimpanzee breeding operation to exist.

Jamie and Burrito were both “raised” by humans for the first years of their lives and used as “entertainers” when they were young. When they became unmanageable like any chimpanzee would, they were put into biomedical research.

Thankfully they now live in a safe, secure, and social environment at Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest, but others like them are not in sanctuaries, and the tragedy of Travis will occur again if laws are not put into place to make the private ownership of chimpanzees and their use in entertainment illegal.

One immediate action that you can take is to urge your federal representatives to support the Captive Primate Safety Act which would make the interstate and foreign commerce of primates illegal. Learn more from the Humane Society of the United States.

More on the Valentine’s Day happenings

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Lest you think that the chimpanzees had too laid-back of a day, they also had a romp outside before dinner.

Jamie was sporting a new look

Jamie wearing headband around neck

Jody climbed up to the cargo net outside and discovered a pecan in the shell, which she brought back down with her

Jody climbing back down after finding a nut in the cargo net

At dinner, we set up yet another forage, which included the strawberries Pam made

Peanut butter Valentine's strawberries

Pam even packaged them in these cute take-out containers

Jody with "take out" strawberries

I guess Jody was the star of the day. This is her in her typical super-relaxed pose. Ahhh – Valentine’s Day

Jody on Valentine's Day, just holding her feet