Monkey delousing his cat friend

Notes for the viewer:
The sequence was filmed on Don Det, an island in the Southern part of Lao PDR, in South East Asia.
I did not chain that monkey up, it was already tied up there underneath the bungalow I rented. It's a thing the people in these countries do and have done for a long time. They buy the monkeys for very little money and nowadays they mainly keep them as a tourist attraction. I am not a fan of it either.
In fact, an Irish friend and I freed the monkey on my last night there on Don Det. What did he do? He ran around like a madman for some 4 hours or so, then returned to the hut and calmly let the people chain him up again because he wanted food. It is sad, very sad.
Originally, I did not even want to pay attention to the monkey, so as to show these people that it's not the tourist attraction they think it is. What made me spend time with him after all, was his weeping which is hard to bear. Monkeys are social animals, they don't like being alone. As soon as I joined him, he would jump on my lap and stop weeping.
People in a lot of places have a different attitude towards animals which we can't just measure with our Western values, I guess.
But I think this monkey has a better life than 80% of the chickens bred for your chicken sandwiches. Only, noone's complaining about that. So instead of sending hate comments to someone who is only documenting this, you people could just stop eating meat and the world would be a little better already.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• delouse
• monkey
• cat

[0307026d]

SanchodelaRoca = d1ckhead

[SanchodelaRoca]

To 0307026d: What's wrong with you, idiot? Learn how to communicate like a human.

[SanchodelaRoca]

The last day I was there, we freed him at night. He ran around like a maniac for a few hours, but in the morning he came back and accepted being tied up again, as he wanted food. That was particularly sad.

[SanchodelaRoca]

To the people who say it's fucked up that the monkey is tied up: Yes, it is. And I didn't even want to pay attention to him at all, so not to react how they want tourists to react (they buy them for 5 Dollars as a tourist magnet). But he was right under my hut, and he was so desparate for contact, that I started spending time with him.

[J4CK100]

FREE THE MONKEY!!! :(

[berts1404]

Poor little thing.

[Dmr2acorn]

He just wants a friend!!!! RELEASE him/her!!!!

[LovingYouEndlessly]

monkeys are dangerous animals and this person probably has a quit logical reason for keeping him tied up seeing as how he said the monkey kept coming around and he did say he did free the monkey, it just came back. Common sense people says you dont just let some monkey roam around your house free without. Its smart this man did this.

[lxTwisteDxl]

@Drifthut lmfao.

[graiminy]

Kitty went Zooom.

[SirAl3xs]

i fell sorry for both of them !

free the monkey you dickheads!

[Drifthut]

@belovedimmortalmy

Thats cause your a pussy

[belovedimmortalmy]

Monkeys are extremely dangerous---even small monkeys.

I was almost choked to death by a spider monkey in Costa Rica.

[kay2themax]

he seems a bit bored and lonely and stressed.

[prettyjuicy]

Poor cat that monkey was aggresive

[NBertuzzi]

cats are so smart