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.
