Primetime: The Outsiders: Monkey babies

[DuckyBoys]

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LOL...

 

[goatkeepers]

Wow, I'm glad I didn't see it. That sounds horrifying....
Your monkey has beautiful eyes. You can tell she's smart. Same with the wolf- very beautiful!! Sorry you had to put him down!

Do they usually live that long? For a dog, that would be a great age!

 

[purr]

onthespot,
would just like to say thanks. Sounds like you have the knowledge and facilities to give these animals a decent life. people take these animals when they are cute and small and then they get big and start acting like they are supposed to and suddenly they aren't cute anymore.

Without people like you to take those animals in they would have to be put down. Unfortunately the Zoo is not always an option.

I think some people find apes uncomfortable to look at because they see the resemblance to human all too clearly.
DNA is very close to ours , especially the chimanzee
I didn't even have the heart to keep the squirrel I raised, I released him when he was old enough to fend for himself. He was a wild animal .I can't even imagine trying to keep a Primate or big cat.

 

[onthespot]

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It was pretty bad. Four days before I had a very vivid dream. I went out and looked at Devin and she looked dead. Her lips were dry and her teeth were dry, and there were flies on her, but her eyes still looked at me and she just lay there. In my dream I went in to tell my BF "Devin's dead. Well, she's not all the way dead, but almost." Swear on a stack of what have you. It was so disturbing and vivid that I told my best friend about it, told her I wanted to go on record here with a premonition. Not four full days later, while she was eating her breakfast, a couple of dogs started wrestling about twenty feet away from her cage and she usually would give a sharp "bark" or OOF sound to tell the dogs off, and I could see it immediatley that she was in trouble, but couldn't do much until she started to lose consciousness. I did all I could but couldn't get the carrot out. I did chest compressions anyhow, and she came back enough to open her eyes and look into mine and then she was gone. It was so sad.
Patches lived VERY long for a wolf. He looked so good up to the very end too, so good that Animal Control accused me of switching animals on them. I proved it was him and they just couldn't believe it. Here is a pic of him at about nine years old and another one at seventeen. I am amazed at how good he looked for so long. He was another exceptionally great natured animal. Never did a wrong thing in all the six years I had him. His cage is now my "coop" which is not yet very customized for chickens yet, LOL, but at least it's secure.

And here he is old. I had to put him to sleep a couple months after that little tumor burst and the flies got bad.

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

Oh. Poor wolf. Looks like you took great care of them.

 

[dogzrule5]

I didn't watch this but saw it advertised. I can understand why people want these guys as substitute children, but it sure is a disservice to the animal. I could even understand having one but letting it behave like a monkey and giving it the kinds of things a monkey needs - not what human children need.

Quite some time ago when chimp attacks were in the news a lot, there was a couple that had a few chimps. They devoted their entire upstairs bonus room to them and it was equipped with heavy duty things for them to swing on and play with. They were trained, not wild, but were still allowed to act like monkeys.

It's one thing to keep an animal and provide a home for it, but another to try to turn it into a kid. I think there's a difference.

Onthespot: Your animals are beautiful. I love wolves and Patches was gorgeous!

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

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You said it!

 

[WillsMama93]

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I wanted a monkey so bad when I was a teenager, that when I had my son, we went to a plastic surgeon and had them make him a tail! We tought him to walk on his knuckles, and how to collect change from pedestrians while my husband played the grind-organ. it was great, until he got older... now that he is 14 years old, the poop-throwing is no longer cute!

 

[playswithfowl]

Ya i saw it too. The old lady was a bit... uhh odd