OK... I'm sure there are many of you that have read about or seen this story on the news.
I was just listening to a morning show in which they were throwing out their own opinions about this crazy event. I am trying hard to have compassion on the owner of this chimpanzee named Travis, but I have been unable to thus far. I actually DO have compassion for her friend because she got roped into this, and is now missing some very important stuff.
Here's my problem with this. When you take an animal created by the good Lord to be a wild animal, and work 14 years on turning him into a human, one day it will come back and bite you (no pun intended... but that was kinda funny, in a very wrong way). I don't care if your chimp has been in 123,543 commercials, is potty trained, drinks beer the glass, does your homework, and shoots sporting clays with your buddies.... he was created to be wild, so don't act surprised when one day HE ACTS WILD. Not to mention, when you give him tea laced with Xanex and glasses of wine... why are you surprised when he loses his mind?
The owner's response (to the opinion that wild animals can never be completely tamed, and that she shouldn't have owned him) was that chimpanzee's are the closest animal to humans, and that sometimes humans go crazy too. She said it was a "freak accident". WOMAN IT'S NOT FREAK! Go live in the jungle and swing around on vines with chimps for a while. Invade the territories of other chimps while you're playing Tarzan and see if they don't ride the jungle of you. They do the same thing to other chimps, that's how God made them. They are wild animals, therefore they will act wild. I just can't understand who threw out the idea that ANY animals would have a conscience.
Anyhow, I have the strong opinion that says if you want to have apes for best friends... you should be made to go to their habitat and should be restricted from bringing them to ours. Use Jane Goodall as your example. This way, you don't run the risk of your little chimp budding ripping your best friends apart.
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Dude I about lost it on that pun.. but i definitely agree... wanna go to the jungle with me?
We should probably get Kevin sent back soon then. I thought it was a bad idea for his parents to bring him in out of the wild. Now look at him; he stays up late eating junk food, disappears for weeks at a time to some mythical magic land called "Gardner-Webb", and even puts flaming organic matter in his mouth! What in the world were we thinking!!! He can't handle civilization!
(All pun intended Kev)
This morning, we heard that the woman said she would "do it all again" if she had the chance. Can you imagine what her friend will think about that!?
The radio DJ's were commenting on the name "Travis" for the chimp. They said it's not a very good pet name and Courtney said, "It's a CHIMP not a PET!"
Our sentiments exactly.
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