Primetime: The Outsiders: Monkey babies

[onthespot]

I inherited an olive baboon when my friend passed away. She was exceptionally one in a million kind and sweet. You could take her for walks, kids could feed her grapes, she would hug you if she found a special treat in he food. She was the best captive baboon she could ever be. Other people who had exotics would come to see her and just be amazed at her exceptional disposition and willingness to cooperate and be so friendly. Even with the best baboon in the world, I agree with everyone here. She lived in a cage, or on a leash. It was a terrible thing to do to such a beautiful, intelligent animal. Lucky for her, she choked on a carrot when she was fifteen and died quickly. I was right there and saw it happen tried saving her with CPR, but no luck. RIP Devin. Ditto for the wolf in the background. I just put him to sleep at age seventeen a few weeks ago.

 

[DuckyBoys]

Onthespot - I don't think you are the kind of person anyone here is talking about. Obviously you have the skills and facilities to take in wild animals.

She was very pretty.

 

[MiniDriver]

Devin looks very sweet. You were smart to treat her as an animal, not a person. That's what was sick about the monkeybabies show. People dressed up the animals and treated them like human surrogates. That's sick. I get kinda squicked out when people do that to dogs, but at least dogs have been domesticated for thousands of years, unlike monkeys.

And I hope the lady who adopted a human child doesn't try to keep it as a perpetual infant (like a monkeybaby).

 

[penelope77]

i think monkeys are creepy. sorry monkey lovers. not to mention all the horror movies made about them. i don't even like to see them at the zoo, aside from feeling bad for them not being in the wild, i don't like how they stare at me.

 

[dangerouschicken]

That's how I feel about ducklings.

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

It is pretty sick how people can take advantage of a wild animal, just to satisfy themselves.

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

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I know. She should have adopted a real baby, since she wanted to be a mother, rather than trying to make a monkey her child.

 

[DuckyBoys]

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Yeah, it's like a "Planet-of-the-apes-we're-gonna-take-over-the-world" kinda stare, isn't it?

I don't like them either.

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

I went to the Bronx zoo last year, and they had Pygmy Marmosets. They were the cutest things I had ever seen. They only get to be about 3-4 inches tall. They are so cute.

 

[dangerouschicken]

AND THEN THEY RIP YOUR EYES OUT!

Monkey fries anyone?