Posted on 03/01/2009 7:20:53 AM PST by ABN 505
"People don't have a clue, they just want to condemn me," Herold says while wiping away tears. "My friends told me anyone who wants to look into whether I have a history of abusing animals will come up empty. Travis was my son and if they want to say I'm crazy or nuts for calling him that, go ahead."
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Do you know where that video was taken? Was it in FL? The reason I ask is that the zoo in the town where my grandparents lived had an infamous chimp who was a master of escape and who liked to smoke. I wonder if that is him?
BTW- I should add, just what a cruel, cruel, evil selfish person this woman was, trying to force this chimpanzee to be something it wasn’t: human...
Travis the Chimp’s girlfriend is more like it.
“...Travis was my son and if they want to say I’m crazy or nuts for calling him that, go ahead...”
OK then - You are crazy AND nuts!
That chimp at times ate better than me... Fillet Mignon, red wine....
Maybe that's what set him off. Dinner that night was probably Hamburger Helper.
Wow.
The woman is certifiable batsh!t crazy.
“if they want to say I’m crazy or nuts for calling him that, go ahead”
Ok, you’re nuts or crazy.
BTW, I've also had a couple of dogs that turned vicious (they had been abused by other people and I was trying to rehabilitate them). When they went after other people in my presence I took them to the Vet and had them put to sleep. Did I want to do that? No! (With the first one who was a bull mastiff mix I cried my eyes out and begged him to forgive me but even my Vet said he wasn't adoptable and I had made the right decision.) I give my dog and cat treats, cuddle with them, take them to the doctor, etc. In many ways I do the same thing for them that I would do for a human child. But I have NEVER and WON'T give them alcohol or prescription/OTC drugs unless told to do so by their Vet doctor.
I feel sorry for the woman who owned the chimp. She had lost both her husband and daughter and was extremely lonely. But IMO she was unbalanced. I also feel sorry for the woman who was attacked. Thankfully she is in a drug induced coma but because she was trying to help a friend her life (if she survives) will never be the same again.
Correct, or you could just say it was a typical wild animal whose owner was an idiot. This was a tragedy waiting to happen. Although it may be true that wild animals have varying dispositions, the fact remains that they all retain the instincts of a wild animal.
Rush said it best: “A Tiger will always be a Tiger”
We would be better off with 435 Travises in Congress.
Fine, she knows what she is-crazy and nuts
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