Pet monkeys

chookrooter · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 12:29 am Post subject: Pet monkeys

Last night I saw a segment on 60 minutes, about a trend in the US for pet monkeys as surrogate children.

It's estimated there are over 15,000 monkey being kept a pets in the US,often capucins, as they don't get very big.

The show explained how the monkeys are taken from their mothers at say 7 weeks.The mother often needs to be sedated for breeders to get close enough to take her baby.

Monkeys are not a domesticated species.They remain wild animals and can apparently turn on their owners,even after 20 years or more.

60 Minutes focused on an appalling woman and her dropkick hubby.They've had a capucin monkey as a surrogate daughter for 18 years. Apparently this silly woman is so shallow she simply couldn't cope after her last human child left home.Worried her new daughter might bite her,mommy had all of baby's teeth pulled out. Some owners have finger and toenails removed from their monkey,and even chop off fingers (allegedly).

This WAS 60 Minutes,which is not renowned here for its accuracy or journalistic integrity (if that's not an oxymoron) On the a face of it, it's about what I'd expect.We have morons like that here too (except you may not import or keep a monkey as a domestic pet in Australia). Thankfully,most of our neanderthals seem to live up north,in the rain forests, where they mate with the native animals.- or in Caravan (trailer) parks on The Gold coast .That's like Miami, but better;no obvious drug gangs,and very few murders.However,great chunks of the coast are every bit as expensive- tacky as parts of Miami.

Amberli · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:02 am Post subject:

Oh yuck.

I am a big animal person, and I really think animal rights need to be reexamined. Like penalties for purposely abusing and neglecting a pet should be a bit stiffer than a fucking 100$ fine. But people are selfish fucks, or complete psychos, like PETA, so nothing ever gets done. Removing all of the teeth? Jeez.. Sad

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Alexis · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:53 am Post subject:

I've got some friends that have an exotic pet instead of a child. Their pet will live for 30 years (max) and is more intelligent than a dog. He's not a monkey, they didn't want a monkey because of the feces throwing thing.

Sometimes women that don't like human children still need an outlet for the maternal instinct. I love animals and caring for things but I don't want children.
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