"Monkids" : Why Monkeys don't make good surrogate children

http://JungleFriends.org Kari airs live on Fox News with Megyn Kelly talking about "Monkids": Why Monkeys don't make good surrogate children

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[superfawful65]

I'll bet all these people are furries.

[JungleFriends]

@superfawful65 OK, I had to Google Furries: Furries are a relatively recent phenomenon which has been catapulted into near-mainstreamness almost solely because of the internet. It is obvious furries are very much victims of tarring the majority with the brush of an "unappealing" minority. In the simplest sense furries are fans of anthropromorphic animals. That is, animals with human like features or tendencies...

[TheGlendini]

Dear Jungle Friends Lady,

I understand that this whole speech was based on monkeys that were born in the wild, from wild parents. I do think that is very wrong and needs stopping.

Buying a monkey as a pet from a breeder who's parents and their parents up to quite a few generations up were born and bred in captivity ARE and will be domesticated. I also say that the statement about you are then stealing babies from mothers should be retracted as it would then be wrong to buy any baby animal in

[JungleFriends]

@TheGlendini When you buy a monkey from a breeder, you are still stealing the baby from its rightful parent, and that is WRONG! And NO, they are not domesticated, educate yourself, it took 10,000 years to turn wolves into dogs, monkeys are still monkeys, sorry, but you do not have an argument for stealing baby monkeys, even puppies and kittens are weaned before being sold, not so with monkeys, they are stolen as early as just 3 days old!!!

[JungleFriends]

We have a matching grant right now, so any donation you make to Jungle Friends will be DOUBLED! Please make a donation today. Lots of monkey love, Kari and the monks

[JungleFriends]

I would feel better if people would stop stealing baby monkeys from their natural mothers :-(, humans are simply no substitute! If you haven't watched National Geographic's Wild Chronicles about little Tessa who came to us when she was nearly dead with diabetes, you should watch it, you can find it on the Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary website under Monkeys in the Media.

[JungleFriends]

@TheGlendini Get back to me in a few years with a report!

[SumFreshDkaf]

@WonderWomanFan4life Monkeys aren't Apes.

[WonderWomanFan4life]

yeah every monkid owner should definitely watch rise of planet of that apes. My fav movie.. LOL

[SElement91]

@WonderWomanFan4life Evolution does not say that humans came from monkeys. That is presenting evolution as a ladder, not as a branch.

[SElement91]

@Armandocoolio Monkeys are not "breeds", they are species. And no monkey or ape is adapted to live in a human environment.

[SElement91]

@TheGlendini Furthermore, disabled people should not be encouraged to "use"/ EXPLOIT these animals, just as nobody else should, and like you are doing. You may deny it, but the reason you are so defensive is probably because deep down you know it is true. Your monkey would absolutely rather be in the wild or with another Capuchin than living with you. The pet trade of nonhuman primates is wrong, dangerous and detrimental. THE END.

[SElement91]

@TheGlendini Jungle Friends should be YOUR friend, because they are looking to enhance the well being of nonhuman primates. However, you are not looking to do that. You are owning a nonhuman primate as a pet to fill an empty void in your life. Nonhuman primates are much more intelligent than dogs, and saying that they will become "domesticated" is the same as saying humans will become "domesticated" in that we can own another human as a pet or slave. It's just wrong.