KIMO.

Hi there : )

Wow today my little Kimo have been a naughty one. You know these days when all the funny tricks never ends : )
Peeing on everything and everyone, trying to steal things and then tear them apart etc. Hehe.

We had some visitors today, Bharat and two more friends came and said HI to us. Kimo is as usual always there in the front of everyone and catch peoples hearts but Santa is more shy. And if she come close to someone she often wants to bite, sweetheart : )

Today they got their second dose of the diworming medicine. It went well cause as soon as we show them the spoons for the vittamines they just open their mouthes and swallow. But i saw on the look on Kimos face  when Rox gave him his dose that he noticed it was not B vitamines this time : )

Hehe Whats this?? Breakdancing chimps?

Kimo and Santa are playing all over.

Hello friends!

Whooo today was a very hot day for us. Kimo had alot of energy as usual, he played around the whole day, no rest at all. Santa was resting and sleeping so he became somehow restless. Me and Angeline (a keeper from J.A.C.K) were ofcourse there for him, and played around but when it was hot, hot, hot inside there we were not in the mood for swinging the chimp and fight about toys.
- Sorry Kimo but you are born here ; ) Im from a cold place, hope ull forgive me for that. : )
Otherwise its been a good day, but i would like them to eat a little more than they do. I dont know how much a 1 year old chimpanzee usually eat. They are drinking there milk well and today they shared 1 apple, 1 orange, 1 banan and 100ml of yougurt.
They are still not very happy about the bread and the bukari, just playing around with it and vegtables doesnt have their big interest either.
But while im having my coffie and a piece of chocolate in the middle of the day that piece of chocolate is very interesting, NO chocolates are NOT for chimps : ) Hehe and even if it was i would never give it away for anything : )

Today i heard Kimos curious/warning Whaooooo, Whaooooo for the second time since he came, i just love listening and watching him when he is doing that, hehe. SWEETHEART.

A long day! : )

This morning i had to enter the playroom with Kimo and Santa in my pyamas, haha. Santa is so worried in the mornings and she refuse to stay in the cage after she has been drinking her milk. She just want to come out of there and she is crying and screaming and climbing the small bars. I couldnt even go to the toilet cause she went totaly upset and its not good for them to feel that much stress.
Maybe she just have a bad sleeping period right now, i was told human babies are like that too.

Stacey was with us today again and she had some fights with Santa to get some respect. She is a very naughty chimp cause of all her reasons from the passed, ofcourse. Bites, bites and bites. But Stacey bit her back and after the second time she stopped attacking her ; )

Today was a special day!
The new enclosure at J.A.C.K was officially "open" by the minister, Kimo and Santa were also introduced officially as the two new babies in the project.
 TV was there and the minister was "cutting" the ribbon which was put around the new place. A new board has been put infront of the new enclosure with all the logos of the ones who gave money to make this come true. So nice.
Christina, if you read this blogg, we would love to know the name of the school of the children you are working with who did this big incredible foundation for J.A.C.K. We want to put the name of the school on the board to, right now it  says : Swedish school, but in french.

Kimo and santa did good this afternoon, am proud of them.

Today they woke up earlier then usual and actually cried for their milk. I went up and prepared it, gave it to them and were thinking of going back to sleep. NOPE. They kept on crying until we went down to the playroom.

It was so hot inside there today. My God. But we usually keep the door open when its thqt hot and I put myself in the entrence as a chimpguard. Hehe.

A very good friend of mine came for a visit today to meet our babies. Santa climbed his leg when she saw him but Kimo was a little bit suspicious. He is protecting his mum.

Yeah what have we done today? Hmmm.

Oh yes, Stacey and her daughters came to say HI, they haven't been home for a while so we were happy to see them and Kimo too. He likes them a lot.

Hehe when they entered the room all of us woke up. Me, Augustin, Kimo and Santa, all the of us were deadly asleep on the floor. Kind of cute.

In the afternoon Roxanes daughter were together with us in the playroom and playes around with Augustin and Kimo. I can still not understand how they manage to be that active in that heat. Me and Santa were just relaxing together in one of the corners.

Today; before we put them into their sleeping cages we tries to put nappies on. Santa was wearing them before but Kimo never let us put them on when he arrived here. Now after spending all these days together he accepted me to put it on but the first thing he did when entering the cage was to pull it off : ) I understand him, warm and uncomfortable. Santa refused to drink her milk tonight, a don't know why, but she was eating her apple. I always prepare their cages with half a apple in each for the night

Today I were spending my time with Kimo until lunchtime when I went to the Farm with Roxane for a second time. I will come with her every Thursday from now.

After coming back from there we were discussing Santa, she is warmer than Kimo and she is sweating so I were a little bit worried for her. Her canine teeth are growing a lot right now so we think that's the reason. We decided to give her some painkilling sirop three times a day for 4 days or something like that.

We are still giving Kimo B-vitamines and Calcium.

This morning Kimo and Santa were not very happy with me. I left them in their cages in my room while preparing my breakfast in the kitchen. They were crying and crying, I think we almost woke the whole town of Lubumbashi up.

Augustin normally comes when I have been giving them their morningbottles of milk and then we move them together from my room to the playroom and he stays with them while I am preparing tee and sandwiches : ) So the small problem of today was that I were waiting for an other girl from J.A.C.K to come and help me out and she was a bit late and I had to prepare my breakfast before I carried the chimps with me to the playroom. Chimpanzees really like rutines and just a small change like this made them worried.

The day was good : )

Today we had another fantastic day together all of us. Kimo was taking his nap today : ) GOOD, he needs that to let his hormones do a proper job and let him grow up to be the most handsome and strongest male chimpanzee of the group at J.A.C.K. I know he will : )

My day OFF. But because they are now spending the nights with me in my room I woke up in the morning, gave them their milk and vitamins and waited for Augustin to come. Then I went back to bed, hehe so nice.

But I really have to admit that I miss them when im not there for the whole day.

Today I woke both of them up at around 07.00, gave them their milk - mmm YUMMIE - and then I carried them downstairs to the playroom while waiting for Augustin. When he arrived I left the babies with him and went with Franck to J.A.C.K. We moved Jane and Tongo today from the cuaranteen to the new, bigger enclosure. Now they can see and smell the other chimps and hopefully get use to eachother. The plan is to put them together.

As soon as I stept into the playroom again after having my lunch I had one chimpanzee around each leg, holding on very tight. I just love the honest way they show their feelings. Both Kimo and Santa were climbing my arms, resting on my belly. Yeah believe it or not but Santa was climbing on me and playing with me without biting for about half an hour. It felt amazingly nice ; )

Today we stayed the whole day together again ; )

Its been very nice but it has also been very very hot today. Kimo urinated a lot and a lot and a lot. Normally he urinates a lot but today was worse. I found him again, playing with his poo on the floor. He always just have to touch it after producing it. He can never leave it. At least I didn't found him with poo all over his face like the other day. Kimo, Kimo, Kimo...you are wonderful ; ) If you need a face mask just tell me and I get you one but please leave your poo alone.

Santa gets more and more comfortable with all of us, that's very good.

Today we stayed the whole day together again ; )

Its been very nice but it has also been very very hot today. Kimo urinated a lot and a lot and a lot. Normally he urinates a lot but today was worse. I found him again, playing with his poo on the floor. He always just have to touch it after producing it. He can never leave it. At least I didn't found him with poo all over his face like the other day. Kimo, Kimo, Kimo...you are wonderful ; ) If you need a face mask just tell me and I get you one but please leave your poo alone.

Santa gets more and more comfortable with all of us, that's very good.

Kimo has been deficated a lot this morning, Much more than he use to. Maybe he ate something bad or maybe the digestion system was working extra hard today.

I have only been together with him half the day today cause after lunch time I went to the Farm with Roxane. We go there every Thursday to by and to be sponsored with some vegetables for the chimpanzees. It's a big place, when we arrived it almost felt like driving around in south Sweden were you can see one big field after one and an other. The fields were big like that. The farm is owned by the owners of one of the two big supermarkets in Lubumbashi.

It was great, now I know where all these vegetables are coming from.

When I arrived back home again I prepared everything for the night for Kimo and Santa. Made their cages cosy with blankets and stuff and then I went down to prepare all the milkbottles, the ones for the evening; the ones for the morning and one extra bottle if someone suddenly wakes up hungry during night.

From yesterday we have started to put 2 spoons of Nestles babie-milk-powder in each eveningbottle, it smells vanilla and makes the milk thicker which means our small babies will stay longer with a full stomach.

Today both Kimo and me got a cure each of a diworming medicine, NICE. But the taste was YERK. I think Kimo was thinking the same, he refused to take it from the medicine - cup with milk, i had to put his B - vitamines inside there too, then he took it like a shot : ) Hehe there is some magic over those vitamines, they can make him do anything : )

They were not eating very well today, i guess its the medicine and the change of the milk type. Hmmm didnt taste like before.

Many changes today. I had Angeline with me instead of Augustin. We wanted to try and see if we can get Santa used to women. Rox think that its maybe a women who have been beaten her before, but we need her to trust us otherwise we wont be able to handle her.
Santas keeper is travelling tonight so from today i will have there sleeping cages in my room during night : )
The end of the day we prepare a couple of bottles with milkpowder for the morning and also some emergency once for the night if they wake up hungry.

NITE : )

Ohhhhh.....a tired Kimo : )