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Crimpergirl

Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
Feb 11, 2012 - 03:38pm PT
Exactly. She babied it and allowed it to crawl on her shoulders (even though it was as big as it was). The man, her husband, was abusive toward it. That dynamic was bad - the meaner he was, the more tolerant she was and the more damage the beast did, so the meaner the man became, etc.

So the monkey had gotten out again and come over to my parent's property. He was at their chicken pen (had a thing about pulling the chicken's heads off which was pretty uncool). Anyway, the man next door starts coming over to try to get beast home. Beast sees dad and I think panics. Runs to me to save it (I think in his mind, woman is safe, man is bad). I'm not touching going to pick it up, so it appeared to get very angry at me so it lashed out. It's got me down chomping on me and the man is yelling "kick it as hard as you can!" I couldn't even manage that. I thought I was gonna have my toes chomped off.

You know when people say they are strong? Well, they are beyond your wildest dreams strong. Freakishly strong. And fast.

Now, I hate that beast for sure. But I also felt very sorry for it. It should not be a pet. It should not have had his teeth ground down (ow). It shouldn't have been brutalized by the tyrant dad. Still, following my attack, I was 100% prepared to put a bullet in that beast if I saw it again. Had that attack happened to one of my nieces, I wonder if they would have survived.

BTW, it was featured in an "Animal Cops Houston" episode. It had attacked someone in the city limits. Rather than dealing with it - and that it had repeatedly attacked the three kids in the family - the family moved out to a more rural area as a result.
part-time communist

climber
Feb 11, 2012 - 03:42pm PT
I'm still a little stupefied as to why they are even allowed to be pets?
Crimpergirl

Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
Feb 11, 2012 - 03:44pm PT
People keep tigers and lions as pets!

Beats me about monkeys.

http://www.petmonkeyinfo.org/testimonials.htm

(I wonder if the nine year old in that link (second story) was attacked by the same beast.)
Crimpergirl

Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
Feb 11, 2012 - 03:59pm PT
Me too Toadgas. I'd shoot from the boat though.

That video guarantees a nightmare tonight. Ugh.
part-time communist

climber
Feb 11, 2012 - 04:09pm PT
awwwww @ baby Brutus!
Crimpergirl

Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
Feb 11, 2012 - 04:29pm PT
Yes, apologize for the thread drift.

Squirrels are cute!
Crimpergirl

Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
Feb 11, 2012 - 04:51pm PT
Hahaha! Excellent visual Toadgas.

You'd think he'd learn by how Grizzly Man's life ended. Chomp chomp chomp.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Feb 11, 2012 - 05:01pm PT
I'm still a little stupefied as to why they are even allowed to be pets?

If said monkeys are lab rescues then perhaps 'pet' is a misnomer but would
you not make an exception for them?
Crimpergirl

Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
Feb 11, 2012 - 05:12pm PT
Rescues should not be kept as pets, but on a wildlife refuges. Doubt there is enough of such places though.

We have a wildlife sanctuary near Boulder - full of mostly tigers. There are also panthers, lions, camels and other assorted critters that had been pets. There are more live tigers living in the state of Texas than there are in the native lands now! Stupid pet trade.

(All the while acknowledging that I have some Lilac Crowned Parrots. While all of mine, except Henri, were born in my home, I still believe their proper place is the wild. Sadly, their wild environment have been decimated, and the captive bred ones cannot be released. It'd be certain death).
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Feb 11, 2012 - 05:22pm PT
Well, Crimps, in my friend's case those monks were in effect at a rescue
facility. Especially seeing as how David had done post-grad research on the
nasties* and actually made no effort to domesticize them. The only times he
handled them were when they bolted and then it got ugly - welder's gloves
only diminished the carnage!

* In the wilds of Peru. He was not associated with the lab that had used them.
Dirka

Trad climber
SF
Feb 11, 2012 - 05:28pm PT
It started as teaching a squirrel to catch. Took a bit but he learned after many beaners. Then he ate from my hand. Then he was caught with blue berry pie all over his now purple face; hence his name blueberry. But after he became familiar with my kitchen cabinets and ate all my food when I was out, I had to administer the tuff (squirt gun) love.

DON'T ENCOURAGE THEM!
Crimpergirl

Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
Feb 11, 2012 - 05:29pm PT
Rescue facility sounds good too.

I just strongly believe they shouldn't live in a house and be treated like a pet - dressed up in frilly outfits, roaming freely in a home, put on a leash to take into public, etc.

I think we are on the same page about that, no?
part-time communist

climber
Feb 11, 2012 - 05:59pm PT
British animal liberation activists break into a laboratory in Cambridge and are caught by a scientist while trying to free some chimpanzees being used for medical research. Despite the warnings of the chief scientist that the chimps are infected with a virus dubbed "Rage", which he claims is highly contagious and only takes one bite to spread, the activists open the cages anyway and release the chimpanzees. A chimp attacks a female activist and immediately infects her, and she in turn infects the other members of the group, including the chief scientist when he attempts to kill her.

Does this ring a bell for anyone?

Seems like there is a high prevalence of the use of chimps being associated with viruses, rage, and zombie movies.
Dirka

Trad climber
SF
Feb 11, 2012 - 06:25pm PT
Toadgas...

I assure you that my squirrel was purple due to the pie that I tossed him!

Your science is beyond my trader joes.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Feb 11, 2012 - 06:38pm PT
Oh, Crimpie, we are most certainly in agreement. If'n you can't handle 'em
for their own good with welder's gloves then you ain't gonna dress 'em in
no kinda outfit. ;-)

tornado

climber
lawrence kansas
Nov 6, 2012 - 12:12am PT
as they say in bouldering "niiiice"
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