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Dear Readers

We know you have not heard near enough about Michael Jackson,  so we thought we throw some more information out there for your mind’s to process.

Besides leaving a musical legacy and lot of unanswered questions, Michael Jackson also left behind an array of exotic pets with some of them unaccounted for and even his beloved chimpanzee Bubbles is depending on donations.

In what was once seen mostly as a harmless eccentricity, Jackson at the height of stardom amassed a private zoo of giraffes, tigers and other foreign animals at Neverland, his sprawling fantasy estate in California.

Nearly all of the animals have been moved to new homes in the past few years as Jackson’s personal and financial woes worsened.

Bubbles, once the world’s best known ape who slept in the superstar’s bedroom and mastered his Moonwalk dance, has lived since 2005 at the Center for Great Apes in Florida.

Jackson  apparently did not provide any kind of financial support for Bubbles and never visited him there.

To date all donations for Bubbles care has come from the Center for Great Ape’s supporters. 

An image of Bubbles on the center’s website appeals to the public to make donations to care for him and other residents of the sanctuary.  The sanctuary is designed to provide a natural environment for apes who had been used as performers or pets.

The website, which does not directly mention Bubbles’ famous former guardian, described the chimp as having a “broad, handsome face and a lot of charima.”

The Great Ape center estimated it cost 16,000 dollars a year to care for each ape, who usually live to be at least 50 years old.

Jackson rescued Bubbles from a Texas medical laboratory where he was bought by Bob Dunn, a Hollywood animal trainer. Jackson returned Bubbles to Dunn after the singer had children, who risk being injured by a large chimp.

 The Florida center took over the care of Bubbles and all of Bob Dunn’s other apes in 2005 when he exited the business.

Dunn was quoted as telling Britain’s News of the World tabloid that Jackson thought of Bubbles as “his first child” and made regular visits while Bubbles was in Dunn’s California preserve.

While Bubbles remains the highest profile of Michael exotic animal collection,  the fate of his other animals is not know and now we are left to wonder about what may of happened to most of Jackson’s former pets. We can only hope that they went to reputable rescue groups and are not in some road side cage somewhere.

I don’t know about you,  but I think I have heard enough about Jackson and think is time to get on with the real world news !

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