Chimp Maims Woman
Ok .. so most of you have probably heard about this already.. the 911 call which led police to the scene of a 50+yo woman being viciouslly mauled by the chimp owned by her 70yo friend. The woman has apparently suffered major damnage to her hands and face, and will most likely require something in the order of a face transplant.
From what I've read the ape was well known in the community, and when it was younger had appeared in commercials for such companies as Coca Cola and the like. It was apparently on Xanax (for what reason, your guess is as good as mine) when the incident happened, and I believe also tried to attack police officers when they arrived on the scene before they were forced to shoot it.
Now my personal feelings are that the situation should never have happened in the first place. The chimp was being kept by it's owner in a domestic situation, she apparently treated it much as you would a young child. While this is all good for the "aww isn't that cute" thing, it's a WILD ANIMAL, sure it can be trained and taught to act a certain way, but it still has instincts, ones that when would obviouslly come back to memory when it's freaked out by being on medication such as it was.
Is there a reason for keeping a pet in this kind of situation? Chimps are not domesticated animals, and DO have violent tendancies. There isn't the excuse such as with a dog that it's there for guard purposes, the only reason the woman had the animal was a) it's exotic and b) she made money off it from commercials.
I've even read a comment from Morgan Fairchild (who was in a commercial with the chimp years ago) where she said it was a SIN that the chimp had to have been put down by the police.
From what I've read the ape was well known in the community, and when it was younger had appeared in commercials for such companies as Coca Cola and the like. It was apparently on Xanax (for what reason, your guess is as good as mine) when the incident happened, and I believe also tried to attack police officers when they arrived on the scene before they were forced to shoot it.
Now my personal feelings are that the situation should never have happened in the first place. The chimp was being kept by it's owner in a domestic situation, she apparently treated it much as you would a young child. While this is all good for the "aww isn't that cute" thing, it's a WILD ANIMAL, sure it can be trained and taught to act a certain way, but it still has instincts, ones that when would obviouslly come back to memory when it's freaked out by being on medication such as it was.
Is there a reason for keeping a pet in this kind of situation? Chimps are not domesticated animals, and DO have violent tendancies. There isn't the excuse such as with a dog that it's there for guard purposes, the only reason the woman had the animal was a) it's exotic and b) she made money off it from commercials.
I've even read a comment from Morgan Fairchild (who was in a commercial with the chimp years ago) where she said it was a SIN that the chimp had to have been put down by the police.