Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/monkey-babies-couples-treat-adopted-monkids-children/story?id=8723105" target="_blank">http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/monk...=8723105</a> Make some sense out of this, if you will. We saw this on Good Morning America this morning. Left us speechless.
Originally Posted By mele We saw a preview for this while watching "LA Ink" last night. We were pretty speechless, too. There is also going to be a tv show called "Celebrity Ghost Stories". Officially the bottom of the barrel.
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin You just gotta wonder about these people...I gave up trying to dress my dachshund up a long time ago...he always looked so ashamed and embarrassed. I think monkeys must have a more developed sense of humor..or else they just have no shame...
Originally Posted By beamerdog I was horrified by some of the things I read in this article. >>"I have monkeys here that the people have had for 20 years. Never had a problem," Bagnall said. "Twenty years later, the monkey attacks. So it's just something, it's going to happen. It's not a matter of, you know, if they're going to attack. It's when." After arriving at the sanctuary, there are extraordinary challenges for the monkeys. In many cases, their teeth have been pulled out and their fingers cut off. << So sad.
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 People really need to realize that these are animals, not children. I am all for loving your pets; I have the coolest dog in the universe and I would be devastated if anything ever happened to her. But you can't pull out their teeth (which is just cruel) or expect them to be anything other than monkeys. <<"Like any parent, she's always chasing after her charges and she often has to remind Silly Willy that "mommy is the boss," especially when he doesn't want to get dressed. ">> I wonder if it ever occurred to this woman that monkey do not wear clothes in the wild and she should probably take the fact that her monkey does not like to be dressed as a sign that monkeys are not the same as babies. If you want a monkey, get a monkey but if you want a child a monkey will probably not fill those needs.
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 <<"I thought about babies, but I didn't want to go through the preteens all again," Lori told "Primetime," explaining that she fell into a deep depression and ended up in the hospital after her youngest child moved out of the house. "I wanted a monkey because it's not going to grow up [like human babies]." This led her to another solution, and to Jessy. "She thinks she's a child. She doesn't like other monkeys at all," Lori said. "She'd rather play with the kids." Jessy is with Lori all the time. When she was a baby, she latched onto Lori's arm 24 hours a day for six months. "Six months that I showered, went to the stores, cooked, slept, everything with her on my arm, because she wouldn't get off," Lori said. "You couldn't get her off.">> Oh, God. Which is sicker? Somebody buying a wild animal and pretending that it is something other than a wild animal or ABC News reporting on this and failing to outright condemn the practice?
Originally Posted By mele I always thought the nice thing about having a pet over a child is that you *can* leave them alone and don't have to give them 24 hour care.
Originally Posted By JazzCat I saw the commercials for the show this morning. My first thought was "That is sick. They need therapy." I especially think that of the man who says, "If people refer to her as a monkey I get mad. She is my daughter." Gross.
