Diana took some pretty awesome pictures of Jody cuddling with a giant stuffed dog the other day. You may have seen it on Jody Chimpanzee’s facebook page, but I wanted to share them here. So adorable!
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Felicity Day the Third
Today’s Felicity Day is from Deborah Kane-Wood. For Felicity’s birthday this year, she asked her friends and family to donate to the sanctuary in lieu of birthday gifts. The result was several Felicity Days throughout the year, so Felicity is being celebrated numerous times instead of just on her birthday. Not a bad deal! Plus, she knows the donations from her loved ones are going towards the care of her chimpanzee friends. This donation came during our 2nd Anniversary fundraising, so Felicity played a big part in helping us reach our goal!
Happy Felicity Day the Third from Jamie, Negra, Jody, Missy, Annie, Foxie and Burrito.
Find out how you can honor a loved one or chose a special day to sponsor by visiting the Sponsor-a-Day portion of our donate page.
New Chimps’ Choice Item!
We received such a wonderful response to last month’s Chimps’ Choice item, Protein Powder, which we add to the chimpanzees’ breakfast smoothie. Thank you so much to all who participated! This month, we’ve taken inventory and are in need of chewable vitamins and acidophilus, which are both available on our Amazon Wishlist. We appreciate all brands, however, we would like to request that they be vegan (no gelatin) and definitely chewable! As a thank you, we will send the first 10 people to donate between today and July 15th a ChimpSanctuaryNW.org bumper sticker. What a great way to support the sanctuary and get the word out! So, ready… set… go! 🙂
Window installation day
Window installation day was last Friday, so the chimps had to be locked out of the playroom for the entire day. I did all I could to keep them busy so they wouldn’t get too bored or anxious during the construction, though they really didn’t seem to mind and were pretty interested to see what was happening. I put out tons of raisin boards, prepared by volunteers Jennifer & Larry the day before, which kept them busy for a while.
Burrito seemed pretty sure there was no better place to be that day than sitting in the window in the outdoor area looking into the playroom.
He even spied on the workers by looking at them in a mirror.
He doesn’t have a lot of guy friends, after all…
Missy checking out the construction: (Doesn’t she look young in this picture?!)
And the next day, the chimps finally got to take a look out their new clear picture window.
Burrito:
Negra’s Birthday Party
Yesterday was such a wonderful day! Thank you so much to everyone who made the day possible! CSNW has the best supporters and volunteers!
Happy Birthday, Negra!
You may have noticed in the video posted previously that we’ve been keeping a secret from you.
On Friday, we replaced three caged windows with clear chimp-proof glass. Thanks to a generous donation from LUSH for two of the windows:
And Anna Kircher and fellow blog readers for the third window (view of the garden!)
If you received the e-newsletter sent out earlier today, you saw photos of Negra’s view and her sitting in one of the windows upstairs.
Here’s a photo of Jody taking a peak out the blog reader’s window downstairs:
and Jamie cleaning the window (apparently we forgot to complete the installation with a wipe-down using a sock):
We’ll be installing four more new windows soon thanks to everyone who donated between March 17th and today for our 2nd Anniversary Fundraising.
We’ll share the final fundraising amount and who raised the most early this week. Thanks, everyone for helping us exceed our goal!!
happy anniversary and thank you
We really can’t thank you enough for following the lives of the Cle Elum Seven chimpanzees and helping to fill their new lives with love and happiness.
The last two years have been remarkable.
This video is for you:
