Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest

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Cle Elum Seven

Chimps enjoy a slide show, and so will you soon!

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Kathy C., who you may recall recently donated a new telephoto camera lens, is working on a photo slide show of the Cle Elum Seven. The slideshow is set to music and has LOTS of photos. We’ll have it for sale in our store once it is ready and we’ve made copies!! Kathy gave us a preview and we were so excited, we decided we should show it to the chimps themselves to see what they thought. They loved it!

We did not receive an money from Apple for this promotion of their laptop – maybe we should think about that…

Burrito watching slide show

Jamie watching slide show

Foxie and Jamie watching slide show. Foxie has a big paper wadge in her mouth – wadging is a natural behavior sort of like dipping tobacco without the chemicals and addiction. Chimps in the wild wadge with leaves. In captivity they use various things. Jamie, of course, is wearing a scarf.

Negra watching the show from the comfort of her bed.

Treat Yourself and give to the Cle Elum Seven

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We are really excited that Cory Michael and Fresh Facials & Skin Care is participating in our Holiday Shopping fundraising. Here’s why we’re so excited – Cory Michael products are cruelty free, eco-conscious and naturally made. They even use organic AND local ingredients when possible. Fresh Facials & Skin Care is a Seattle spa that uses Cory Michael products and offers some pretty irresistible spa options such as organic pumpkin facials, European fresh facials and back treatments (plus lots more).

There are several ways that you can support this great business. For the entire month of November, 15% of all sales – all facial products bought in stores, at the spa, and even online, as well as all spa services at Fresh Facials & Skin care will be donated to CSNW. As though that were not enough – Fresh Facials is having an open house on November 21st from 12-5pm. During the open house, 20% of all sales will go to the Cle Elum Seven!

So, if you live in the Seattle area, go to the Open House on November 21st! You can RSVP (or drop by). Here’s how to get in touch: Address: 535 Pontius Ave N #126 Seattle, WA 98109, Phone: (206) 420-4723, email address: [email protected].

You can contact Fresh Facials to reserve a spa treatment if you can’t make the open house. There are also local stores that carry Cory Michael products.

No matter where you live, you can buy Cory Michael products online and 15% of sales (or 20% on November 21st) will go to your chimpanzee friends. Seriously, check out their website – there are great products for the face, body and home that you’ll want to buy now!

Pomegranate feast!

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The chimpanzees had a fantastic feast of pomegranates for lunch today. What a great fruit for chimpanzees – it took them most of the afternoon to devour two a piece, and they loved them! Like everyday, they had many interesting foods today including kiwi, pineapple, a banana bread made by Denice (Burrito and Negra were big fans), artichokes (not favored by many, but Negra ate all of the hearts out), mini-peppers (a favorite of all) brought to them by their friends Nissa and Amy in Snoqualmie, and pasta with sauce and fresh green onions prepared by Jessica (Jamie ate most of that, food grunting the whole time). Oh, and granola that I made a couple of days ago in our brand new slow cooker/crock pot which was donated by the chimpanzees’ good friend Tamela. I had no idea granola could be made in a slow cooker – luckily Tamela also supplied us with a cookbook. I can’t wait to see what the volunteers cook up now!

Annie

Burrito

Foxie

Negra

Changing Annie

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To continue our ongoing look at the changes in the chimpanzees since they first arrived at the sanctuary, here is Annie. Besides the really obvious differences such as hair growing in where there were bare patches and increased muscle tone, on thing we’ve noticed looking back at photos is that their faces have a new firmness. Faces of adult chimpanzee are pretty wrinkled and show a lot of character, but when they first arrived from the laboratory, the faces of the Cle Elum Seven had a very loose and drooping appearance, where now their faces still have wrinkles and are full of character but appear much more firm, healthy, and even younger.

Annie – day one of sanctuary life (June 13, 2008) after living in laboratories for decades:

Annie on day one of sanctuary life

Annie six weeks ago at Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest:

Annie about six weeks ago

Annie two days ago with Halloween treat bag:

Annie two days ago with Halloween treat bag

See your chimpanzee family on ABC World News tonight!!!

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I know regular blog readers have been waiting for this announcement with great anticipation. And here it is!

Here’s what we know: the segment will air on ABC World News with Charles Gibson, which begins at 6:30EST and 5:30 PST. Please check your local stations.

We’re so excited to see the Cle Elum Seven on national television!

UPDATE: you can watch the segment online here: http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=6043780

Keith on the radio SUNDAY

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Keith will be on interviewed on Seattle’s 98.9 kwjz today at 4:30. He is appearing with our friend Yoram Bauman of Comedy Underground to talk about their non-profit comedy benefits and Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest’s upcoming comedy night show on October 7th.

If you’re in the Seattle area and haven’t already RSVP’d for this event, please do so by adding your name to the Evite list. The current one-night record for funds raised at non-profit comedy night is $5,100, raised by Puget Sound Community School – I hope CSNW can make a new record for the Cle Elum Seven!

Update: Looks like the show will be taped and will actually air early Sunday morning on the Public Affairs program. I’ll provide more details as we have them.

Even if you can’t make the show, you can listen to Keith’s interview live on the radio or on kwjz’s website.