Posted on 02/26/2009 2:49:25 PM PST by mojito
LIKE many longtime couples, Carlie and Bob, independent animal rescue workers in upstate New York who have been together 21 years, have a difference of opinion about one big issue in their relationship. In their case, it is about a 7-year-old Hamadryas baboon named Higgins, who spends a good part of most evenings watching HDTV in his heated monkey house, often holding hands with Bob. Carlie thinks that it is time to ship Higgins to a baboon preserve, and Bob wants to keep him at home.
“Here’s the bottom line,” Carlie says. “I only believe people should have pets that are domestic animals. Bob believes that everything is fair game. He would have a lion if I let him.”
Did Carlie say HDTV?
“Yeah,” says Carlie. “I only got one at Christmas. Higgins has had one for about a year. He’s a TV fanatic. If you forget to turn it off, he’ll be sitting there at 3 in the morning.
“His favorites are ‘Little House on the Prairie’ and ‘Walker, Texas Ranger.’ ”
Bob, who’s owned wild animals all his life, admits Higgins has not always been a model pet. When Higgins was 3, he slept with the couple, often awakening Bob in the morning by climbing to the bedroom rafters and dropping onto Bob’s stomach. On one occasion, they got in a wrestling match, and Higgins put one of his “steel-like fingernails” through Bob’s scrotum.
Bob has considered moving him to a sanctuary, but “I’m just too attached to him,” he says.
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On one occasion, they got in a wrestling match, and Higgins put one of his “steel-like fingernails” through Bob’s scrotum.
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That would tend to be enough for me, if I were a guy.
Since it’s the husband who wants to keep a baboon as a pet, I’m okay with it. Men generally are more rational and have an understanding of these issue. The husband will see the baboon as a pet and not slobber on and on about “her son” the way a woman might.
Women, G-d love them, are very emotional and usually can’t contain themselves on these attachment issues.
“JUDIE HARRISON, 50 and three times married, is an extreme example of monkey love. She once demanded that her 15-year-old son give up his bedroom for a chimp, and today she is estranged from all three of her children because she put the primates first. Her passion also cost her her home.”
The beast also pulled one of her teeth out, and tried to attack a small child on a bicycle.
“...On one occasion, they got in a wrestling match, and Higgins put one of his “steel-like fingernails” through Bob’s scrotum...”
Bob, imagine a world where monkeys do not but their fingers through your scrotum. You don’t have to live this way!
A man who is more attached to his monkey than his scrotum?
Attached to monkey- detached from scrotum.
Where are the psychiatrists?
“Love me; love my monkey.”
These people are SICK! Especially the women whose first two husbands and her three children left her because she fancied her chimps uber alles.
Glad to hear about it. A woman like that deserves to be on the receiving end of primate dental care.
This is hands-down the funiest line that I have read on FR in at least four or five years.
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