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Title: Owner Shared Bed and Took Baths With Chimpanzee From Connecticut Attack
Post by: bijou on February 20, 2009, 03:00:23 PM: Quote
STAMFORD, Connecticut â€” Travis the chimpanzee's relationship with his owner was closer than those of some married couples.

Sandra Herold gave him the finest food, and wine in long-stemmed glasses. They took baths together and cuddled in the bed they shared. Travis brushed the lonely widow's hair each night and pined for her when she was away.

If she left the house alone, Travis would give her a kiss.

"If I left with someone Travis would get upset," Herold said Wednesday.

Experts say the unusually human relationship would have been confusing for any animal. It may have also played a role in Travis' savage attack Monday on Herold's friend, 55-year-old Charla Nash of Stamford.

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link (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,497064,00.html)
Title: Re: Owner Shared Bed and Took Baths With Chimpanzee From Connecticut Attack
Post by: Miss Mia on February 20, 2009, 04:01:05 PM: Okay, I can kinda see sleeping in the bed, I mean my two cats sleep with me. Taking a bath is just strange...but then maybe that's b/c I have cats and there's no way in hell I'd get in a shower with one of them.
Title: Re: Owner Shared Bed and Took Baths With Chimpanzee From Connecticut Attack
Post by: bijou on February 20, 2009, 04:03:52 PM: Quote from: Miss Mia on February 20, 2009, 04:01:05 PM
Okay, I can kinda see sleeping in the bed, I mean my two cats sleep with me. Taking a bath is just strange...but then maybe that's b/c I have cats and there's no way in hell I'd get in a shower with one of them.
Do you serve the cats the finest wines? If so that cat lady thing may be more than a joke. :rotf:
Title: Re: Owner Shared Bed and Took Baths With Chimpanzee From Connecticut Attack
Post by: Miss Mia on February 20, 2009, 04:09:21 PM: Quote from: bijou on February 20, 2009, 04:03:52 PM
Do you serve the cats the finest wines? If so that cat lady thing may be more than a joke. :rotf:

It's the finest wine they know, filtered tap water. :)

Yeah, this whole story of the lady and the chimp is strange strange strange.
Title: Re: Owner Shared Bed and Took Baths With Chimpanzee From Connecticut Attack
Post by: Wineslob on February 20, 2009, 04:11:06 PM: Ewwwwwwww............
Title: Re: Owner Shared Bed and Took Baths With Chimpanzee From Connecticut Attack
Post by: Sweet Dee on February 20, 2009, 04:11:21 PM: Quote from: Miss Mia on February 20, 2009, 04:09:21 PM
It's the finest wine they know, filtered tap water. :)

Yeah, this whole story of the lady and the chimp is strange strange strange.

Totally creepy.
Title: Re: Owner Shared Bed and Took Baths With Chimpanzee From Connecticut Attack
Post by: Miss Mia on February 20, 2009, 04:12:37 PM: Quote from: Sweet Dee on February 20, 2009, 04:11:21 PM
Totally creepy.

Tap water is perfectly fine for animals that lick their own butts.
Title: Re: Owner Shared Bed and Took Baths With Chimpanzee From Connecticut Attack
Post by: Sweet Dee on February 20, 2009, 04:13:33 PM: Quote from: Miss Mia on February 20, 2009, 04:12:37 PM

Tap water is perfectly fine for animals that lick their own butts.

LOL tap water is not creepy. Creepy chimpanzee in the bed, is creepy ;) goober.
Title: Re: Owner Shared Bed and Took Baths With Chimpanzee From Connecticut Attack
Post by: Miss Mia on February 20, 2009, 04:17:07 PM: Quote from: Sweet Dee on February 20, 2009, 04:13:33 PM
LOL tap water is not creepy. Creepy chimpanzee in the bed, is creepy ;) goober.

I knew what you meant. Michael Jackson probably slept with Bubbles too.
Title: Re: Owner Shared Bed and Took Baths With Chimpanzee From Connecticut Attack
Post by: Sweet Dee on February 20, 2009, 04:18:36 PM: Quote from: Miss Mia on February 20, 2009, 04:17:07 PM

I knew what you meant. Michael Jackson probably slept with Bubbles too.

Well yeah, that's a given. I loves me some old skool MJ tunes. But he's a total creeper nowadays. lol
Title: Re: Owner Shared Bed and Took Baths With Chimpanzee From Connecticut Attack
Post by: Miss Mia on February 20, 2009, 04:22:09 PM: Quote from: Sweet Dee on February 20, 2009, 04:18:36 PM
Well yeah, that's a given. I loves me some old skool MJ tunes. But he's a total creeper nowadays. lol

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Title: Re: Owner Shared Bed and Took Baths With Chimpanzee From Connecticut Attack
Post by: mamacags on February 20, 2009, 04:57:51 PM: I wonder if she had monkey love with him? I mean there are freaks all over the place getting busted for banging their dogs/horses/sheep/raccoons/gerbils...
Title: Re: Owner Shared Bed and Took Baths With Chimpanzee From Connecticut Attack
Post by: asdf2231 on February 20, 2009, 05:18:58 PM: This thing is WRONG on SOOOOO many levels. :p
Title: Re: Owner Shared Bed and Took Baths With Chimpanzee From Connecticut Attack
Post by: Wretched Excess on February 20, 2009, 05:41:17 PM: that explains why the chimpanzee was so pissed off.
Title: Re: Owner Shared Bed and Took Baths With Chimpanzee From Connecticut Attack
Post by: asdf2231 on February 20, 2009, 09:19:00 PM: Quote from: Wretched Excess on February 20, 2009, 05:41:17 PM
that explains why the chimpanzee was so pissed off.

(http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l307/asdf2231/Motivational/consideration.jpg)
Title: Re: Owner Shared Bed and Took Baths With Chimpanzee From Connecticut Attack
Post by: DixieBelle on February 20, 2009, 09:45:30 PM: Oh my....... :-)
Title: Re: Owner Shared Bed and Took Baths With Chimpanzee From Connecticut Attack
Post by: asdf2231 on February 20, 2009, 09:48:00 PM: Quote from: DixieBelle on February 20, 2009, 09:45:30 PM
Oh my....... :-)

You know I only just now noticed the placement of the log in that picture... :thatsright:

:shucks:
Title: Re: Owner Shared Bed and Took Baths With Chimpanzee From Connecticut Attack
Post by: DixieBelle on February 20, 2009, 09:49:37 PM: Oh my indeed then!
Title: Re: Owner Shared Bed and Took Baths With Chimpanzee From Connecticut Attack
Post by: debk on February 21, 2009, 08:21:39 AM: Oh...my. Isn't there another thread...where that picture belongs?

The comment about the chimp not liking it when the owner left with someone.....the news said the victim had recently cut her long hair off to short....wonder if the chimp thought she was a man and felt jealous?

You have to wonder what the victim's quality of life will be like....she's lost her eyes, her face, and her hands. I'm not sure that I would want to continue.....
Title: Re: Owner Shared Bed and Took Baths With Chimpanzee From Connecticut Attack
Post by: SaintLouieWoman on February 21, 2009, 09:29:29 PM: Quote from: debk on February 21, 2009, 08:21:39 AM
Oh...my. Isn't there another thread...where that picture belongs?

The comment about the chimp not liking it when the owner left with someone.....the news said the victim had recently cut her long hair off to short....wonder if the chimp thought she was a man and felt jealous?

You have to wonder what the victim's quality of life will be like....she's lost her eyes, her face, and her hands. I'm not sure that I would want to continue.....

I don't know how that poor woman could keep going. It's too awful to even contemplate.

The girl at my office who kept telling me she was saving to buy a little chimp (yes, the Missouri laws are very lax and you can buy about any kind of exotic animal here) finally listened to me. I've been telling her for a couple months that something like this could happen.

I hope other people think before they get any primate or other exotics. The problem is, they think that when it grows up they can give it away to a zoo. They can't. Most zoos don't have room and won't take animals without knowing it's history. They keep stud books, like the AKC dogs, where they'll recommend breeding along certain lines. An unknown wouldn't be accepted, plus there would be too many behavioral problems with an animal that had been kept as a pet, suddenly in a very different environment.

The animals also wouldn't know how to get along with others of their species. Most have only been with people and tend to be neurotic.