Comments on: Captive Wild Animals and the Stupid People Who Keep Them http://nothoney.com/2009/03/02/captive-wild-animals-and-the-stupid-people-who-keep-them/ Stop Global Climate Change. Go Vegan. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:38:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: mindy http://nothoney.com/2009/03/02/captive-wild-animals-and-the-stupid-people-who-keep-them/#comment-2092 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:37:16 +0000 http://nothoney.com/?p=1260#comment-2092 Wow, people just won’t learn, will they? I know it must be very difficult to think of sending her “babies” away. I can’t imagine how hard it would be to part with my dog, for example, and I am sure you could love a chimp just as much….but at the end of the day, you have to do what’s best for the animal. If I knew in my heart that Otis was better off at a sanctuary, I’d send him there. She needs to think about them, not about what she WANTS!!

]]> By: nothoney http://nothoney.com/2009/03/02/captive-wild-animals-and-the-stupid-people-who-keep-them/#comment-2091 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:53:23 +0000 http://nothoney.com/?p=1260#comment-2091 Here’s my letter to NBC:

Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 09:40:34 -0500
From: Not Honey
Subject: Chimpanzee Story
To: Today@NBCUNI.com
I was surprised, and rather disturbed, this morning to see your story about the Montana woman who “owns” two young chimpanzees. You presented a one-sided tale that leaves viewers with the impression that it’s OK to keep
endangered primates in their homes because
they’re cute and cuddly and if you handle them at the right
hour of the day, all is well.

After the tragedy of Travis’s death and the attack on Charla Nash, every primatologist in the world, including Jane Goodall, Eugene Cousins, and Jeff Corwin, made it clear that chimpanzees are not pets, they do not belong in people’s homes and they are dangerous because, no matter how soft the bed – a jail is still a jail. Some day, these
beautiful wild cousins of ours will want out of that jail and
that’s when things go bad.

Chimpanzees are an endangered species. We should be
talking about
conserving their wild habitats and releasing them from the
entertainment business, private “ownership” and zoos, and
torture in
medical labs, not practically promoting them as house pets
as your piece today did. You should urge your viewers to
contact their Senators to support the Captive Primate Safety
Act and stop the interstate trade in primates. Please
consider airing another piece that includes science and
conservation, and not the lunatic fringe.

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]]> By: paula http://nothoney.com/2009/03/02/captive-wild-animals-and-the-stupid-people-who-keep-them/#comment-2088 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:01:27 +0000 http://nothoney.com/?p=1260#comment-2088 Hi Sheryl, great post. I listened to the 911 call and have been traumatized ever since. Poor Travis.. poor Carla….what a sad waste.

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