Pet Squirrel monkey falling asleep

This is Sofie, my 4 year old squirrel monkey fighting to stay awake, & eventually falling asleep. She loves to sleep under the covers where its is warm and dark.

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Pets & Animals

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• monkey
• pet
• sleeping
• wildlife
• squirrel

[xeileen916x]

@MisterDiSeAsE - Where did you get this information? It's completely false. I contacted the Centers for Disease Control, as well as follow media articles. There is NO record of ANY primate or ape killing a person. There have been 2 occasions where an escaped chimp severely hurt a person, but both still live to tell the story. I challenge you to find ONE case where a primate killed a person in the United States. You won't!

[victini09]

i loved it wen he rubbed he eyes

[raspberrypavlova101]

I do think monkeys aren't really meant to be pets, but you obviously love your monkeys to bits and they seem very happy with you so I'm not one to judge! :D

[MisterDiSeAsE]

@xeileen916x Sorry about those comments. It was my dumb friend, he's obsessed with killings anyways sorry, though that information is suprising that never happened.

[AdiosADios94]

@xeileen916x It's a shame the general public nearly always attempts to bombard exotic keepers with lectures, regardless of how well versed they are in the species they keep. Caring for exotics needs to be better understood in our country. I can only hope the privilege is still around when I'm old enough to attain the necessary permits for exotic mammals (as I only have reptiles now.) But, I guess responsible keepers being flamed is better than unknowledgable keepers doing harm to the animals.

[PivotDreamArt]

Short

[mrceebees14]

@Ron0loves0hermoine And breeders are some of the worst animal people. Guess what, at some point someone did have to trap that "wild Monkey," in order for someone else to obtain it. Even if the babies were born in captivity, most of the time they were born in captivity because the parent/s were captured either to be killed for food or sold to outsiders.

I am not a Peta person, but lets not start bullshitting people either.

[mrceebees14]

@xeileen916x And I would bet that most of those Dogs bites come from Human abuse of the animal. If you know that there are that amount, then you can't compare the two, it's inconclusive, the same as when people compare Flying to being more safe than driving. Put nearly as many planes in the sky and I guarantee you the death rate will go up. It's less than 1% who own Monkey's ma'am compared to Dogs ma'am, that means the numbers will always dramatically favor your answer which is disproportionate

[mrceebees14]

@xeileen916x Birds yes, Dogs and Cats, no, especially Dogs which have lived directly with man for thousands of years dating back to ancient times, so to say "any," of course is false. A Monkey like a Bird lives a totally different lifestyle than Humans, most of it spent not on the ground, let alone in a confined space which is the direct opposite of its instinctual surroundings. That said, for a Monkey, your house could be just a huge bird cage, could it not?

[xeileen916x]

@mrceebees14 - The same can be said for any other animal kept as a pet. No animal's habitat is in a human home. Look at birds, even those that are "domesticated" and commonly kept as a pet are kept in cages.

[xeileen916x]

@mrceebees14- I am not forgetting the fact that there are 72 million more dogs in the US than there are monkeys. I just did the PROPORTIONS. There are 4.7 million reported dog bites in the US. That means 6% of dog owners had issue (must correct my prior post of 15% guess calculator was off, sorry). There are only 5 reported monkey bites a year. So say there are 10 monkey bites it is still less than 1% of owners having issues. So by PROPORTION monkey owners have had less issues than dog owners.