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Auction items

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Tickets are selling fast for Out of the Box, the 2010 Auction Gala Event!

Below are a just a few of the incredible art items that will be up for auction, these pieces are of the Cle Elum Seven chimpanzees. There are a lot of other art items, as well as wine and just for fun certificates and getaways. Check out the Auction Items page for a list (and check back often for updates!)

Lucy Birkitt’s oil painting of Negra:

Margaret Parkinson‘s oil painting entitled “Jamie Undercover”:

Diane Frederick‘s wood burned portrait of Annie:

Sally-Anne Ryan’s painting, also of Annie

Join us for an Out of the Box evening. Get your tickets now!

202 Chimpanzees update

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Watch this recent interview with New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, who just might be my new favorite person: http://apnm.org/news_current_events/2010/govrichardson_koat.php

If you’re in New Mexico, watch KNME at 7:00pm tonight for “New Mexico in Focus.” For those not in New Mexico, the show will be made available online after the weekend.

The KNME show will include a panel discussion about the Alamogordo Primate Facility chimpanzees who are slated to move to a laboratory in San Antonio, Texas. The panel includes State Representative Nate Cote, University of New Mexico Professor Dr. John Gluck, and Animal Protection of New Mexico’s Laura Bonar.

Included in the group of 202 chimpanzees in Alamogordo are Jody, Foxie and Negra’s children. Jody’s son Levi has already been transferred to Texas.

Much of this information comes from the latest update from Animal Protection of New Mexico.  Read the entire update here: http://apnm.org/mailbox/aug13_1_10.html We are so grateful to APNM for continuing to work on helping these chimpanzees and for keeping us all informed and letting us know how we can help.

We need your vote!

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Help us win $5,000. Vote for us now. You can only vote once.

We have submitted as idea for the Justmeans $20,000 Digital Paperless Fundraising Challenge. As you know, we do almost all of our fundraising through our blog and social networking sites – no paper needed, thanks to you! One of our supporters alerted us to this contest for organizations doing just that – raising money without the direct-mail, paper-heavy approach.

We’re perfect for the contest and we have a strong submission focused on our recent Anniversary Fundraising. But we need your votes to get us back in the lead.

We want to win the $5,000 grand prize!

Please vote today and ask all of your friends to vote too. It only takes a minute to sign up and cast your vote for the chimps. You can only vote once, so if you’ve already voted – thank you!

Gene Hackman helping the Alamogordo Chimpanzees

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So far the NIH has not budged on their plans to transfer 202 chimpanzees from the Alamogordo Primate Facility to the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research.

The chimpanzees have gotten some celebrity support recently, though – Gene Hackman wrote a letter to the head of NIH asking to halt this transfer.  Check out this excerpt from his letter (it gave me chills in a good way):

“As you know, efforts to save the Alamogordo chimpanzee have drawn support from Gov. Bill Richardson, Sen. Tom Udall, and many other people around the state and across the country. I join them in urging you to fulfill the National Institutes of Health’s goal to ‘exemplify and promote the highest level of scientific integrity, public accountability, and social responsibility in the conduct of science’ by allowing these chimpanzees to live out their lives in the safety of a sanctuary.”

Read the full letter here: http://pcrm.org/resch/alamogordo/hackman.html

If you haven’t already, please contact the government about this issue. Your tax money is funding the laboratory housing and future experimentation on these chimpanzees.

Find out more ways you can help by following this blog for updates, as well as:

Project R&R

Animal Protection of New Mexico

Humane Society of the United States

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

What big teeth you have

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Here’s a nice example of why you would never want to be bitten by a chimpanzee. It may look like Foxie is threatening to kill her troll doll, but I simply caught her in the middle of a yawn.

This photo also shows how chimpanzees – even tiny chimpanzees like Foxie – are able to fit so much food into their mouths. I have seen Foxie stuff eighteen pieces of monkey chow into her mouth at once (each piece is about the size of a walnut in the shell).