Hello my friends. Oh my goodness there is so much panda news I will have to spoon it out in mini-doses with today’s 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. meters and the backyard and the bamboo forest is 7,000 sq. meters.
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 number 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
NO LONGER AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE
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!!
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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!!!
We are back from our trip to the panda and moonbear centers in China, as well as a wonderful warm side trip in Thailand and I, have so much to tell I hardly know where to start. If you have been following along on my blog at https://graffitigossip.com you know all about the panda I chose for our next group adoption via PANDAS INTERNATIONAL….a stunning (formerly) wild panda named Bai Xue
ABOVE: ME HAVING MY PHOTO TAKEN WITH “WU JUN” WHO IS TAI SHANS NEW NEIGHBOR
I chose Bai Xue for her unmistakable black “beauty mark” on her muzzle and her history of being a wild child, as she was the panda who disappeared from the panda center she was at for 5 years, then miraculously returned!! Just one look at her Bifengxia clay dipped bum and you know this girl marches to the beat of a different drummer. How endearing can one panda get….and to top it off she is a wonderful mommy at the age of 20 years it is estimated.
ABOVE: A photo of our new adoption gal Bai Xue I took on February 8, 2010
SEE THE VIDEO BELOW OF BAI XUE I DID LAST WEEK HIGHLIGHTING THE PHOTOS AND VIDEO I TOOK OF HER IN FEBRUARY
CLICK HERE TO GO DIRECTLY TO YOUTUBE TO SEE THE VIDEO LARGER AND IN HIGH DEFINITION
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I have so much to tell you about all the pandas, moonbears and elephants we met along the way, but this update is for our beautiful Bai Xue, who is asking for your help in completing this group adoption, as we still need 250.00 of the 500.00 required by Pandas International to finalize the sponsorship of our girl.
OUR ADOPTION DEN INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS SO FAR:
Eunice Messer Wendy Bouzid David Keen Bonnie Young Diana Hillygus
Lori Love Lois Dubs Patricia Markby Stephanie Smith
Above: another photo was taken on our visit in February 2010
I decided to extend the deadline until April 1, 2010, and you may easily pay 25.00 or more for your adoption pledge via Paypal or a check or money order.
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WHERE DID MY ADOPTION MONEY GO?????? CLICK HERE FOR MUCH MORE INFORMATION
ABOVE: Bai Xue and one of her 2008 cubs. Photo by Pandas International
Regardless of how you choose to pay, each of the contributors will be receiving a downloadable panda artwork I designed just for our group with a value of 45.00. You may print this artwork as cards or a make a framed print for your own use, as a thank you from me for your generosity and caring.
This very special panda art design will not be sold anywhere at any time, so it will be a collector’s item. I will reveal the design as soon as our adoption is finalized.
ABOVE: PHOTO BY PANDAS INTERNATIONAL OF ONE OF BAI XUES 2008 CUBS
ABOVE: 2008 CUB OF BAI XUE…PANDAS INTERNATIONAL PHOTO
ABOVE: 2008 BAI XUE CUBBIE…PHOTO COURTESY PANDAS INTERNATIONAL
Thank you all so very much for your support of the group adoptions at PANDARAZZI. My dream is to continue to be able to provide a way to help others be a part of these unique adoptions of the China pandas by making them affordable for all who wish to participate. A $500.00 adoption can be out of reach for many caring panda people who would love to be involved. Being part of the “adoption den” you really see your donation dollars in action!!
By providing a platform at PANDARAZZI where we all can shake down our piggy banks and pool our resources as a team, we all benefit from one another’s involvement, in turn, help each panda we sponsor with plentiful bamboo, medications, round the clock TLC by the nannies and keepers. Not to mention the AWESOME updates and photos which Carrie and the Bifengxia photographers provide us during the course of the year!!
BAI XUE SENDS HER PANDA LUV AND THANKS YOU ..XIE XIE !!!!!!
Hugs, Sandra Miller
LEARN MUCH MORE ABOUT OUR CHINA TRIP STARTING FEBRUARY 6TH HERE
As if being a part of our amazing journey as an armchair tourist isn’t adventuring enough……think what a lasting memory you can give to yourself or a loved one for Valentines Day or Chinese New Year by being a part of our YIN YANG TOUR GROUP PANDA ADOPTION !!
In cooperation with PANDAS INTERNATIONAL and Bifengxia Panda Base in China, and our incredible adoption coordinator Carrie Phillips, I am proud to offer this exciting opportunity to a very special group of individuals (that’s you guys…my blog readers!)
We will SHARE in the one-year adoption of not only a panda………but a panda you will be meeting on our visit to Bifengxia on February 8, 2010 (7th China time) via this blog. What a perfect way to help this endangered species and be a part of a $500.00 adoption that can be out of reach for many in this economy. AND you are getting a bonus virtual vacation to China and Thailand to boot!!!
Each person donating a minimum of $25.00 USD will receive an adoption certificate from Pandas International and be listed on my website under the adoptions tab at PANDARAZZI MAGAZINE
As she always does, Carrie will be sending us updates as she gets them from the Bifengxia Panda Base
OUR DEADLINE FOR RAISING $500.00 WAS MARCH 1, 2010
In the event we go over 500.00 we will apply that towards the same pandas care.
PANDAS INTERNATIONAL PHOTO
This fundraiser closed in 2010. Thank you to everyone who helped!!!
