Posts by Sabrina
New Year 2025!
Yesterday the chimp’s enjoyed their 2025 party with pomegranate, black eyes peas, green beans and sparkling cider! Happy New Year, everyone!
Read MoreCatching Up
The tinsel and lights are slowly coming down, and as the holiday magic fades into January’s quiet, life settles back into its familiar rhythm. In our little corner of the world, everyone’s finding their way back to their favorite routines – each in their own way. Cy, our resident bookworm, has already disappeared…
Read MoreChristmas Eve in the Chimp House
We are one night away from Christmas here at the Chimp House and while caregivers are hard at work procuring the food for the festivities and wrapping all the presents for the chimps to receive tomorrow Honey B and Gordo are taking it easy and enjoying a long play session in their giant box. Caregivers…
Read MoreAn Early Gift for Jamie
Yesterday caregiver Jenna found time in her day to decorate the chimps Christmas trees for them complete with lights, tiny stockings and ornaments. This morning we rolled in the Christmas tree for Jamie’s group to enjoy and right away Jamie found something she wanted. Jamie immediately found a tool and began her quest to hook…
Read MoreI Spy
Over the past few months, I’ve noticed an interesting behavior from Willy B. He often sits by a window in one of his front rooms, where he appears to be watching the camera monitor that shows his group’s activities. At first, I wasn’t completely sure about his intentions. But recently, during a morning conflict within…
Read MoreMornings with Dora & Co.
As everyone knows by now, Cy’s group is in the midst of a reintroduction to foster a more cohesive social group. Presently, Terry, Gordo, Dora, Mave, and Honey B form a subgroup of five. Join us today as we catch up with Dora and company, excluding Gordo who must have had prior commitments, in today’s…
Read MoreLucky’s 33rd Birthday!
Today is Lucky’s 33rd birthday! We celebrated with a gum forage (her favorite), mangoes, sparkling cider, and bonobo books! Lucky is such a sweet chimpanzee. She is simultaneously gentle and fierce, caring and reserved, silly and serious, sensitive and takes no crap. She is multifaceted! Lucky is one of the first to greet caregivers when…
Read MoreRayne: Supportive Queen
We have talked quite a bit about issues that arise when shifting the chimps around in their areas, but recently I had to delay shifting because Honey B was busy entertaining herself out on the Bray, what unfolded over the 30 or so minutes that followed very much made the delay worth it. You can…
Read MorePaper Party!
Lately we’ve been getting large bags of paper donated to us by one of our local stores, Jerrol’s, who we get supplies from and have a wish list through. So yesterday we had a paper party for Cy’s group of 9 and put some of their lunch forage in the paper for them to search…
Read MoreA Jolly Good Time
As we all know, Burrito has a serious obsession with his beloved Jolly ball. We have to take it away from him periodically to give everything a good scrub and disinfect, but that just builds up the anticipation for when they’re reunited again. Well, today was the day Bubba got his prized possession back. We…
Read MoreThe Simple Things
Sometimes some of the best things in life are the simplest. I recently bought a heavy duty crate for my dog because he is a little destructive sometimes when alone. It was a little expensive, which is sad for me BUT there’s always an upside! The boxes the crate came in were massive so I…
Read MoreNeggie’s “Unofficial” 2nd Birthday
Annie’s 50th birthday was a big deal, but Negra definitely thought it was all about her! Okay, maybe we did spoil her a little on party day… Here are some special moments of Negra enjoying her “unofficial” birthday celebration. Neggie looking over some boot magazines: Before gathering some grapevine and making a nest for herself:…
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