Several months ago, Ron began retaining water — for chimpanzees, a symptom of heart disease. Because of his poor health, he’s being sent to a sanctuary in Florida, and his friend Thoto is going to keep him company.
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thank you for introducing Ron & Thoto to us. I found this to be heart-wrenching. Being that love is the ultimat healer, I am grateful to those of you who give of yourselves to care for them; give them a chance to live out their lives with love, respect & dignity. Do you; on behalf of Ron & Thoto welcome visiters ?
Wow… I couldn’t help but smile when Ron first stepped out of his cage. I nearly cried when Thoto went out into the grass and hung onto a tree. Nothing better could have happened at that point. They served us, the unthankful thoughtless humans, and now they finally recieved some sort of reward. I don’t g to circuses because of animal treatment like this.
This show made me weep throughout…Touching…I will be writing about the chimps in a post or two that I’m doing on the humanity of animals and the inhumanity of humans just before Christmas 08….
This is one of the most moving programs I have ever seen. I am grateful to those that brought these chimps’ stories to us. We really need to know the cost of our fun and noble experimentation to our cousins. Thank you.
I would like to know the address of the sanctuaries that housed the chimps in your show
I should like to send a contribution to the chimp sanctuary. please let me have their address
Me too. God bless your work.
I wish I could help some way. Please let me know how I can contribute.
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We need to demand that all chimpanzees be removed from research, please write letters to your state representatives, senators, etc. Keep doing this until they are released…..
Dr.Carole Noon, and her staff are such remarkable people. She has done so much for these Chimpanzees. Now, we need to get the rest of the Chimpanzees out of the research labs, and we can if we demand their release…..
You can go to savethechimps, and get all the info there.
I wanted to take the time to thank all those involved with the rescue of chimps. They don’t belong in the zoo or on display of any kind. They certainly don’t belong being kept as “pets”. They belong in the wild, and barring that, in a sancturary that does not allow the general public to come and look at the “monkeys”. How would you like to be starred at? They are far too DANGEROUS to be around untrained people. Aside from that, they should be given respect, dignity to live out their lives with their families in privacy .
They look very sad where they are. I think that they should build an island, where no person can bother them. They should be aloud to live in an area where they can be alone with there own species….