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Moonbear Matilda thanks her fundraiser helpers!!!

Mama Bear — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:47:14 +0000

PICTURED ABOVE IS MATILDA . I TOOK THESE PHOTOS IN FEBRUARY 2010

After two months of fundraising I am proud to announce to the purchasers of the “In a Perfect World” pendant set, that I am putting 50% of the money raised on this pendant towards the model for the artwork…”Matilda”. That is $200.00 to help keep Mz. Matilda comfie and healthy at Animals Asia Foundation in Chengdu

Matilda (left) is the girl I mentioned who was practically glued to one of her exercise pen mates “Bottom” (right) Thank you to Animals Asia Founder Jill Robinson, Nic and Alice for ID’ing these two bears for me. Keeping track of names was not easy as I was so overwhelmed with bears and Jill’s stories….. and photographing them while I had this incredible opportunity I missed writing down a lot of names

We were on a wonderful overlook platform viewing the bears a distance so the long lens came in handy. I’m really pleased with the closeups I got of the moonbears from such a great distance. Jill on right, Gayle on Left

Above image shows how far the bears were away from where we were standing on the platform. This was new since my 2006 visit and I could have stayed up there for hours observing the bears and their behaviors and antics. What a feeling it must be to have this freedom!!!

Matilda just melts me and I know she will melt you too!!!!

Matilda and Bottom just hangin out and being FREE. Its hard to imagine any of these bears, now rescued, in such beautiful coat weight and condition, having been squeezed into body sized coffin style cages , with no freedom, very little nourishment, sick with infection…. mentally and socially deprived as well.

The trust and lack of fear so many of these bears exhibit are testament to the constant and loving care which the AAF staff and volunteers provide the moonbears in their charge 24/7. The resiliency of the rescued bile farm bears dumbfounds me!!

Animals Asia keeps this pile of crush cages which they rescued the bile farm bears from as a grim reminder of the past for those bears but also a reminder of the new and better life for those who are now free. Some unfortunate moonbears never had the chance to live long following their rescue due to the horrendous condition they were found in…….. but they are also no longer suffering which is a blessing .

Matilda on the left…Bottom on the right

SO THANK YOU ONE AN ALL FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THIS FUNDRAISER!!!

I hope you all are enjoying your pendants and wear them often!! Every person who asks , “what is on your pendant” opens the door for you all to spread the word about the incredible work Animals Asia Foundation does for the moonbears!!!

IN A PERFECT WORLD pendant peeps are below!

Valerie Gilb

Elise Ney

Rachel Lepree

Christie Harper

Deb Hethorn

Tuula Tammelin

Deonaha Conlin

Michelle Padula

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MY NEW BOOK BLINDSPOT IS ON THE SHELVES!! 100% TO THE PANDAS!!!

CLICK BOOK COVER TO PREVIEW AND PURCHASE

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WOOD TRIBE update and Moonbear pendant last call.

Mama Bear — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:10:52 +0000

Hello my friends. Oh my goodness there is so much panda news I will have to spoon it out in mini doses with todays being a cubdate on our Wood Tribe cubbie XIAO HUA (“You You”) !! Below is what Carrie received from the Panda Club at Bifengxia about your baby who is growing up SO fast!! Thank you so BEARY much for this wonderful update!!!

Hi Sandra,

I hope you’re doing well! It’s hard to believe that it’s almost the end of September. Please share this recent update and adorable picture of your panda Xiao Hua (You You) with the Wood Tribe. He is so cute and he’s really grown!

You You:
Your baby was moved from Shanghai Zoo to Shanghai Wild Animal Park with other nine “Expo Pandas” on June 28 and met with the visitors on June 30. To welcome them, the park specially built an “Expo Panda House”. The Panda House occupies 10,000 sp. m, of which the exhibition area is 3,000 sq. m and the backyard and the bamboo forest is 7,000 sq. m.

The exhibition area was equipped with running water, trees, wooden swing, slides, etc, for them to play and climb. In a word, the design of the Panda House reflected the concept of ecological environmental protection and fits for the giant pandas’ lively habit. Your baby adapted to the new environment quickly. Now its weight is 64.5 kg. Every day it has bamboo of 12 kg, 600 g Wowotou, a small amount of apples and carrot and milk of two times.

Because of the hot weather these months, many pandas have less bamboo. So does your baby. That’s why it lost weight. On July 6, CCRCGP held a group birthday party for the ten “Expo Pandas” at Shanghai Wild Animal Park. Many of their adopters from all over the world came to the park to celebrate for them and give their best wishes to them. Because your baby is over two years old. The keepers are going to ablactation for them. Now they have reduced the thickness of the milk so that the pandas can finish ablactation smoothly.

Please thank the Wood Tribe for their adoption! We appreciate their support.

Carrie

CLICK THE IMAGE TO PURCHASE THIS NECKLACE AND GIFT TIN SET

AND A REMINDER THAT THIS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2010 IS THE FINAL DAY FOR JOINING OUR MOONBEAR BEFRIENDING THROUGH YOUR NECKLACE PURCHASE.

Your purchase of this stunning limited production moonbear pendant will have 50% of the proceeds going towards helping one of the moonbears at Animals Asia Foundation. Our chosen bear will be announced next week!!

SEE THE VIDEO PROMO FOR “IN A PERFECT WORLD” BELOW

And if all this isn’t excitement enough…………you can see from the sidebar that the long anticipated release of my panda book called BLINDSPOT is on the horizon……coming to the bookshelves THIS COMING FRIDAY, October 1 2010. Stay tuned for my newsletter announcement coming Friday as well.

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PANDA NEWS…and Moonbear Teaser…and PI Auction!

Mama Bear — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:50:56 +0000

Hello everyone!! Pandarazzi site has been down all day and I have been itching to show you all these pix of the Jing Shui!! I’ll post them on the blog when my server decides it’s time…but for now, you can see her updated page here …they are the last 3 photos on the slideshow and some new text just below that too.

CLICK HERE TO SEE JING SHUI’S ADOPTION PAGE

Also don’t forget that PANDAS INTERNATIONAL is having their Mothers Day Ebay auction in progress. You dont’ want to miss all the wonderful panda goodies up for bid, including a “one of a kind” stretched canvas I created which will be the 2010 Pandas International anniversary design for their shirts and panda ware. !!!

The starting bid is only 1/5 of the gallery price of this ready to hang canvas over a stretcher frame and a stunning piece of unique panda art!!! This is a one of a kind replica of the original. NO OTHERS WILL BE MADE.

CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE AUCTIONS

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DONT FORGET THE DRAWING FOR THE CUSTOM JEWELRY IS TONITE AT THE BAMBOO TEAHOUSE

To get your name thrown into the hat you must be a Bamboo Teahouse Member…add your profile photo please

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Now a little teaser…… get those cameras out and start shooting wildlife (with the camera of course..lol). I am in the midst of organizing an International photo contest which is going to be HOT STUFF!!!! It is going to take a number of weeks to coordinate with my incredible helpers Elise and Camila…….but the muses are with us and this is going to be so incredible and far reaching! More to come soon!

If anyone here has connections with a corporation (assosicated with wildlife/ecology) or a National camera store chain who might be interested in sponsoring this event please contact me. Yep…it’s THAT BIG of a contest!!!!

And the PANDA JEWELRY IS BACK!!! I will have some pieces ready for purchase next week and will announce it here. A portion of the purchase price on all panda designs goes back in to the PROJECT PANDA fund which goes eventually to our projects with PANDAS INTERNATIONAL.

HAVE A PANTASTIC WEEKEND EVERYONE!!!!

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TWEET FOR THEIR LIVES..DEADLINE APRIL 24TH

Mama Bear — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:50:30 +0000

A call to all our TWITTER members and to any of you who would like to sign up for Twitter just to help us as well, to send out an appeal for the moonbears who so desperatly need your money.

READ BELOW ABOUT ACTOR HUGH JACKMAN’S GENEROUS OFFER

Here are mine and Elises TWEETS we did as examples. Be sure to mention ANIMALS ASIA in the post or this link http://animalsasia.org if there is room. Remember you only have 140 characters or less to state your case.

GO TO “REAL HUGH JACKMAN” ON TWITTER , ADD YOURSELF AS A FOLLOWER THEN POST YOUR TWEET ON HIS TWITTER ACCOUNT

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MY TWITTER POST ON HUGH JACKMAN’S PROFILE

pandarazzi @RealHughJackman

Imagine YOU*In body sized cage*Open gut wound*Cry to end life of torture*YOU are a bile farm MOONBEAR* ANIMALS ASIA=FREEDOM

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ELISE NEY’S TWITTER POST

bearsrepeating @RealHughJackman

Existing in cages half their size. Bile harvested in an archaic practice. Longing to be FREE! Help!! http://animalsasia.org

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Thank you all so much for your help!!! Your TWEETS alone are incredible advertising for the cause regardless of whether the moonbears are chosen or not. Moonbears need exposure desperatly if we wish to change the course of their tortured lives

Mission Moonbear supporter Elise Ney, told me about this opportunity the day it was announced. I had inteneded to post here earlier but “life happens” and haven’t hadn the chance till now…thank you Elise for your patience!!

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Article and photo below courtesy YAHOO NEWS

Actor Hugh Jackman has pledged to donate tens of thousands of pounds to charity in a Twitter contest.

Users must send a 140-character “tweet” to the actor’s profile @RealHughJackman to nominate their cause.

The star will give 100,000 Australian dollars – more than £48,000 – to the charity named by the best tweet.

Hundreds of recession-hit charities are competing for the money as the economic downturn forces them to think of innovative ways to raise funds.

Mr Jackman, who stars in Wolverine, told his online followers: “Your suggestions have been informative, touching and inspiring.

“Please keep them coming. You are educating thousands by sharing your causes.”

The winning cause is set to be announced on Friday April 24.”

@RealHughJackman

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MISSION MOONBEAR SPONSORS…BREAK OUT THE CHOCOLATE CIGARS!

Mama Bear — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:24:05 +0000

Hello my friends and Mission Moonbear #3 members!!! I’m very proud to announce we have all our money collected for our special sponsored bear and to give you a sneak peek. His name is WILFRED… aka “Watermelon”. He got his name from the fact that all he would eat when he first was rescued was the sweet and tasty confection…. watermelon.

Above is a photo by Animals Asia as he arrived at AAF in his lifelong cage prison, having at taste of one of his many “first” pleasures in his new world…….fresh watermelon…..click the link to see how our boy Wilfred looks today and read his incredible story of survival!!

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE PAGE I CREATED JUST FOR WILFREDS SPONSORS

Thank you all so very much for your kind and generous donations to help house and feed this beautiful blind moonbear. He is buddies with our previously adopted Mityan which is part of the reason I chose Wilfred for our group. I can’t wait to get to Chengdu to see these boys for myself again…especially now that I have names and stories to connect with each moonbear.

THESE PHOTOS ARE PROOF POSITIVE THAT YOUR SPONSORSIP DOLLARS ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN EACH INDIVIDUAL LIFE OF THE ENDANGERED MOONBEARS..WHO WEAR THE CRESCENT MOON “SHIELD” OVER THEIR HEARTS!

Luna Ursa Hugs and eternal thanks!!!!!

Sandra Miller
founder MISSION MOONBEAR
sandra@pandarazzi.com

VISIT ANIMALS ASIA FOUNDATION

http://animalsasia.org

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THANK YOU MOONBEAR MANIACS!! AND MANDELA

Mama Bear — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:19:54 +0000

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DONT’ FORGET TO START YOUR BLISS PAGE AND SEND ME YOUR MOONBEAR HAIKU!!! THE BOOK IS GROWING FAST

CLICK THE BAMBOO TEAHOUSE BADGE IN THE LEFTHAND COLUMN TO START

ABOVE..RESCUED MOONBEAR AT AAF CHINA ON OUR TRIP IN 2008

Well my friends …we did it!!! With the generous support of our Pandarazzi family and additonal Moonbear Luv from our new friends at URSA FREEDOM PROJECT….we made our goal of $600.00 (plus some) to adopt/sponsor a third moonbear!!!

THANK YOU CONTRIBUTORS

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Marilyn Kamna
Jan Lockhart
Lynn Richardson
Sabina Holdsworth
Judy Young
Joseph Brady
Tanya Ross
Margaret Schindel
Deb Hethorn

James Shaw

Elizabeth Wilson

Dania Gerhardt
Gay Noland
Primeclass Traders
Allan Birmantes
Elise Ney

I am in the process of talking to AAF and studying Jills blog to choose our special rescue (tough job..they ALL are special). Thank you all so very much for answering the call to action for this project!! I’ll have much more news soon!!!

AND CHECK OUT JILLS BLOG AAF BELOW WITH SOME INTERESTING TIDBITS ABOUT JANE GOODALL AND OUR BOY MANDELA!!! CLICK IMAGE TO ACCESS JILLS BLOG FOR MORE UPDATES

ARTICLE COURTESY ANIMALS ASIA FOUNDATION

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DO YOU HAIKU??? HELP ME AUTHOR A MOONBEAR BOOK

Mama Bear — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:48:47 +0000

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*haiku (HY-koo) noun; A form of Japanese verse having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables respectively, involving allusions and references to nature or seasons.

I adore Haiku…the formula for these rhymeless poems is as follows

*haiku (HY-koo) noun; A form of Japanese verse having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables respectively, involving allusions and references to nature or seasons.

The above Haiku is my own wordage…Please send yours to me and it will be featured on my website
pandarazzi.ning.com

…replacing my words under the graphic with your Haiku and your name. You can download and print your special moonbear prose as well!!

READ MORE ABOUT MOONBEARS AT ANIMALS ASIA FOUNDATION to get in touch with your inner moonbear zen frame of mind!!

And dont miss out on the party at

THE BAMBOO TEAHOUSE !!

Start your page to help motivate and support the pandas and moonbears. You can post your adopted cubs at your customized page as well!!!

PLEASE PRIVATE MESSAGE ME WITH YOUR HAIKU AND NAME SO I CAN PREPARE YOUR PROSE PROPERLY!! WOO HOO!!
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$600.00 IN 6 DAYS TO SPONSOR A MOONBEAR..HELP US

Mama Bear — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:59:11 +0000

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We, the Pandarazzi peeps, are making this pledge to help feed and care for our one special Moonbear for the next 12 months at Animals Asia Foundation Chengdu China. This is our 3rd fundraiser with the 2 previous ones being hugely succesful in “adopting” Mandela and the blind moonbear Mityan.

By helping care for these special needs bears who are in the throws of recovering from years of torturous bile farming, it helps free up other funds coming to AAF that they desperately need as well to help do the actual rescue projects and close down the bile farms

Donations can be made via Paypal right here at Pandarazzi in the left column or at the THE BAMBOO TEAHOUSE . …again in the upper left column. Your names will be added onto the list as the funds arriveHere is the Paypal widget again for your convenience

All donations, large and small add up fast so please consider even a 10.00 contribution. The ultimate goal is $600.00 in 6 days!!! We have done it before and I know we can do it again!!!! You guys rock!

We will be choosing our moonbear from one of the most recent rescues that AAF has done. The staff has been extremely generous in letting our Mission Moonbear community decide who we want to sponsor. Eventually I hope we can sponsor them ALL!!

A reminder to please join us at the BAMBOO TEAHOUSE as well and start your own beautiful pages to blog and network about your love of animals, nature and art! http://pandarazzi.ning.com

Thank you for your consideration of this important project. As a community we can make a large sum of $600.00 seem not so daunting by each of us giving whatever we can afford from our Paypal “change jars”

READ ABOUT OUR PREVIOUS SPONSORSHIPS HERE

Big Luna Ursa Hugs to all of you and thanks in advance for all your continued support of the moonbears !!

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Congratulations Mission Moonbear #2 sponsors!!! We did it!!!

Mama Bear — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:58:25 +0000

THANK YOU DONATORS….WOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOO.. We now reached our goal of 600.00 needed for our beautiful moonbear who we can now give an identity to as well…our handsome man’s name is”Mityan”. Have you ever seen such a classic and handsome moonbear boy (well of course….our Mandela man!!!!) SCROLL DOWN FOR MUCH MORE

Below is the letter I received from Jill Robinson who is the founder of Animals Asia regarding the moonbear I chose for us to sponsor.

I will start a special web page for Mityan this week to chronicle any updates and any photos I take when I return to Chengdu this year along with a list of his new “family” of donators.

THANK YOU DONATORS
Bryan Pynn
Liz Pynn
Gayle DiCesare..again.. in Memory of Puffin
Elise Ney ..again
Kristin Schunckle
Gregory Gerhardt
Eunice Messer
Lori Love
Marcus Tress
Deb Hethorn
Dania Gerhardt
Lucas Bally
Elise Ney
Gayle DiCesare
Sandra Miller

FROM JILL:
Hi there Sandra, huge congratulations from us all for another phenomenally successful fundraiser for the bears. Here’s one of my favourite pics of Mityan – a truly joyous bear and one, which I say to all who visit him on site, is the perfect example of a huge and handsome moon bear.

This was what I wrote about him after he arrived in December 2005:

Mityan shocked us all when he arrived as it was clear from the start that something was very wrong with his eyes. This poor bear is blind. We have no idea why just now but, incredibly, he is a sweet and gentle bear who is remarkably fearless for a sightless animal and “ID’s” everyone and everything by raising his nose into the air and breathing in a good snout full of information.

As soon as he hears the food bowls being prepared outside in the corridor his handsome head turns towards
the sound, as he knows already that this signals his favourite time of the day. Chow time. A lovely character – which will hopefully make eventual homing and management a little easier. Mityan will have his health check soon but, already we know that he is a victim of the terrible “free-drip” method of bile extraction.

He just didn’t change and went on to become one our favourites as he just gets on with life with a happy, calm demeanour. We had an ophthalmologist out at the end of last year and sadly she has said that they cannot restore his sight. Still…..he’s a happy boy and adores his girlfriend blind Akimo. The two of them have now been integrated with another popular (and blind) bear we received last March – Wilfred (previously nicknamed Watermelon) – and it’s just wonderful to see how happy they all are together.

I’ll leave Alice to talk through the accounts side with you Sandra, but just wanted to get this off and wish you a happy Valentines Day from us and your four legged friends in Chengdu, with our grateful thanks, Jillx

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Jill Robinson MBE *
Founder & CEO
Animals Asia Foundation

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Our blind Moonbear sponsorship…extending deadline..join me at FACEBOOK

Mama Bear — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:56:52 +0000

Extending our Deadline to sponsor blind moonbear

Hello Everyone!!! Happy almost Valentines Day!!! I am writing to again thank those who joined the MOONBEAR CAUSE AT FACEBOOK which is a page which I started a couple of weeks ago to help network and spread the word to get new folks to visit Pandarazzi….. and I appreciate all the recruiting as well!!!! If you belong to Facebook already I would greatly appreciate if you joined the cause and invite others to do the same.

I have some jewelry incentives in place for recruitments and donations of over 50.00 to our blind Moonbear. Those who already donated 50.00 will receive their special jewelry gift as soon as our 600.00 goal is reached. Facebook members who recruit (get their FB friends to join the CAUSE) 20 or more members receive a 20% off coupon for anything on my jewelry website!!!!

Our total in the fund is at 450.00 (thanks new donators) of the 600.00 we need to sponsor our blind moonbear. Alice Ng at Animals Asia will be sending us photos and a background story about the moonbear I chose for us to sponsor very soon.

I had thought if we didn’t get to our total by tomorrow ( our original deadline) I could chip in the balance but I think the best thing to do would be to extend the deadline to my birthday..May 12.

This will just give more people the chance to help us recruit and educate in the meantime. The incentives still will remain in place until the goal of 600.00 is reached. Donate at the PANDARAZZI BLOG via Paypal or contact me at sandra@pandarazzi.com to arrange payment method

Please continue to help by asking all your friends to join the MOONBEAR CAUSE AT FACEBOOK. There is no obligation whatsoever to donate when you join the Facebook Cause, but of course any donations from 10.00 on up are ALWAYS greatly appreciated and will add your name to our blind moonbear’s sponsorship village!!!! Be sure to come to Pandarazzi to make your donation if you wish for it to go specifically towards the Blind MOonbear sponsorship

You can read about the recent rescue of moonbears from a bile farm by Animals Asia here at JILLS BLOG
http://www.animalsasia.org/blog/

The money I am fundraising for the one blind moonbear helps keep the general funds rolling into the rescue efforts. By giving our sponsored moonbear food, medical care and upkeep money…..the staff can go about saving more of these gentle little bears from a tragic life of suffering in cages too small for their bodies.

Thank you all sooooooooo much for your support. Below is our list of donators so far!!! You guys rock!!

THANK YOU DONATORS… We have 550.00 of 600.00 needed for goal

You can donate from 10.00 on up towards our moonbear at my blog. http://pandarazzi.com

Your name will be added to this list as well as on our moonbear’s webpage journal

THANK YOU DONATORS

Gayle DiCesare in memory of Puffin

Elise Ney again!!
Kristin Schunckle
Gregory Gerhardt
Eunice Messer
Lori Love
Marcus Tress
Deb Hethorn
Dania Gerhardt
Lucas Bally
Elise Ney
Gayle DiCesare
Magenta
Sandra Miller

Valentines Day moonbear hugs!!
Sandra

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