Monkey looking for food in his dog friend's mouth

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:

• monkey
• dog
• friend

[Zenithson05]

shit normally the dog would bite

[rcheliboy]

That is so cruel. The monkey is tied to summit, this is the type of things they do in japan kore china etc (I'd know cos I am chinese), we should tie all them people up at their dicks and dump them in mud and hang them off cliffs and deprive them of oxygen and...

[toothpickmassacre]

wtf is the monkey tied up...

[serxiong]

this is cute