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I read last night that the hospital released details of the woman's injuries. She's lost both her hands, her nose, her lips, her eyelids, her facial bones are crushed and they think she might be irreversibly brain damaged.
It is just Horrible.
You're right Fivehorses what words...
it was a Wild animal...
living a totally Non wild "lifestyle"
grrrrr
why was it "allowed"... in the first place...
oh, I don't want to get started.
I feel for the Lady and her family, the injured lady that is. just such a tragedy.
I totally agree, and i agree with previous posters that the chimp is no replacement for her husband, and daughter, she should have gotten a cat, or dog.
I totally agree, and i agree with previous posters that the chimp is no replacement for her husband, and daughter, she should have gotten a cat, or dog.
We often read about cases where people's pet dogs injure, maul, or even kill a person. Recently there was an instance where a Chow/Golden Retriever mix killed a family's newborn infant in Mesa, AZ. Family dog that killed Mesa baby euthanized
What is the difference between a dog that goes on a rampage and this pet chimp who got loose and killed a family friend?
Domestic animals as well as "wild" animals have the potential to be dangerous.
ALL animals have the potential to go "wild", even domesticated ones too...
But "we" have in our care, at home, in our personal space more of domesticated animals than we do Wild ones.
Wild (non-domesticated) ones have that Urge at a greater level. And if we were to have as many non-domesticated animals as pets as we do domesticated ones than, the proportions being equal we would most likely see more "wild" animals "acting out"in this way that this Chimp did...
he had No Wild life of that what he should have.
living in a house and not to go out ... except when he "escaped" the walls that "caged" him...
200 lb chimp attacks woman after being given Xanax
This is pretty old news. I believe the latest I had heard about this was that this Chimp did not have any Xanax. The owner of this chimp had a very peculiar relationship with him...the whole thing was totally odd. The woman who was attacked is in beyond serious shape. She lost half her face, will be blind and possibly brain damaged. Chimps are NOT domestic pets and should never be considered as such. Wild animals belong in a controlled environment and it is cruel to the animal and insensitive to other people around the owner to have such a pet. I don't think any sort of exoctic pet belongs in captivity, not snakes, monkeys, other reptiles, wild cats, wolves, lions, tigers; none of them should live with humans.. We simply do not know how to care for them and cannot expect them to go back to their wild ways at some point.
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200 lb chimp attacks woman after being given Xanax
