What a busy day!

I woke up at 6am, which never happens, even though I go to bed at 10pm.  I figured I’d better get up though since the monthly AdvoCat had to be sent out today at 10am and I had not written a single word of it yet.

 

Got it done and launched, then Judy Mills and Debbie Banks of EIA, met w/ Howie and I over Skype for an hour and a half, to discuss doing a side event at the CITES CoP17 in Johannesburg, SA, to raise awareness about tigers.

 

Ran from that straight to a closing on the sale of 310 Thomasdale Av in Haines City.  Jamie called me from there, in a hurry for me to return to the sanctuary because Gale has already left for the Taking Action for Animals Conference in D.C. and Jamie wanted to take some of the interns bobcat tracking where Thor was released last month.  She will switch out the cards in the camera traps while there.

 

I have a week and a half of contacts left, so I had to call my eye doctor and order more.  I’d much rather do it myself at Contacts.com but he needs the money, so I order through him.  He can’t take credit cards, so that means mailing a check.  All a huge hassle, but I figure he doesn’t have that many more good years left to work.

 

Judy has been saying she can’t go to CITES because she’s a consultant who doesn’t get paid when she doesn’t work and she’d be gone 2 weeks.  No one could train Jamie better to take over all this tiger protection in the wild stuff, so I offered to do her job for her (reporting for MacArthur Foundation on Climate Change) and let her keep the money.

 

We were discussing what sort of giveaways or enticements to get people to come to the tiger event, which would include a 10 minute tiger movie and a 10 minute tiger talk.  I suggested we white label 100 bottles of wine with NOT Tiger Bone Wine and an educational piece about how farming tigers is driving the extinction of tigers.  We offer them to the first 100 people who come to and stay through the entire event.  Then contacted the hotel to see if they can provide wine.

 

Yesterday I wore myself out, dragging Nest cameras and an extension cord all over the place to see if I can pick up a good enough signal to broadcast for Nest.  It would be a great way to reach a new audience.  I have a lot more dragging around to do today, but it’s 90 degrees and I’m not sure how much more I can stand.

 

Then I got this nice note:

 

Hi Carole and Jamie,  I hope all is well. Just wanted to let you know we have submitted everything to Animal Planet today and are just waiting for feedback from their internal development team. Once they have looked over it, it will be passed on to the commissioner.

 

This can take a few weeks (given the number of pitches they receive) but we have a good relationship with them so I am hopeful that we can chase this soon if we don’t hear anything in the next few weeks. I will keep you posted, the team have done all we can here so we have everything crossed.

Feel free to get in touch at any time but I will update you soon.

 

Have a great day!  Kind Regards,  Naomi Channell. Casting Producer 344 - 354 Grays Inn Road. London

 

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