Oh, happy (panda) day!
I’ve just received confirmation from the Wolong Panda Reserve, via Suzanne Braden, Director of Pandas International, that I can adopt the panda cub born on 23 August 2006.
This cub, however, is not the same cub I wrote about here, but the younger twin. The cub I originally wanted to adopt (by the way, a boy, and not as stated in that same post) has died. He had been born with a harelip (the first such case in the world of giant pandas) and recently died of congenital heart disease. Suzanne forwarded me the news as soon as she received it, and asked if I would now like to adopt his younger twin, a girl, born about two hours after him. I immediately replied to say yes. However, the confirmation had to wait until Wolong gave the go-ahead. Which it now has.
Happy panda day for me, indeed.
Here are two pictures of the boy cub with the harelip.
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No pictures yet of his sister.
