Chimp Attacks Woman - Proves (Again!) That Wild Animals Are Not Pets
This is why it's wrong to have chimps in tv shows, commercials and idiotic movies like Space Chimps. Because they make people want them as pets, until those cute baby apes grow up and "suddenly" become "wild". Yesterday a 15 year old, 200 pound, "pet" chimpanzee, named Travis, was shot and killed after he mauled a friend of his owner, Sandra Herold.
Here's a snapshot of how I feel about this series of events: Herold and her husband are idiots and completely to blame for all of this carnage.
Back when he was little, and manageable, Travis starred in commercials for Coke and Old Navy. Over the years he rode around in the Herold family tow trucks, and ate at the table, even drinking wine from stemmed glasses.
Record scratch ... wtf? Wine? Why would anyone train an animal to drink wine?! But wait, it gets worse!
On the day of the attack, the animal -- because let's get this straight, Travis was an animal, not a human -- had been acting oddly, so Herold gave him some tea. Laced with Xanax!
I guess she didn't give him much of a dose, or maybe he'd built up a tolerance, because he still managed to escape. Herold's friend Charla Nash came over to try to help coax Travis back into the house.
For some unknown reason (except maybe that he's a wild animal?) Travis attacked Nash. To get him off her friend, Herold stabbed Travis several times with a butcher knife and hit him with a shovel.
The stabbing and shovel hitting didn't kill Travis. When the police arrived, he came after them, so they shot him. Repeatedly. Travis "retreated to his sleeping quarters" where he died.
Herold wasn't a trained primatologist -- she and her husband acquired Travis after their daughter died, and raised him like a child. A child with gigantic canines and a diet of wine and Xanax.
You know where this tragic story starts and ends? With the criminally stupid a-holes who thought it would be "fun" or "cute" to have a pet chimp in the suburbs of Connecticut.
My heart goes out to the friend, Charla Nash, who's in the hospital fighting for her life. And my money is going to Save the Chimps, an organization that rescues chimps from nut jobs like the Herolds, and teaches chimps the skill they need to live normal, wild Xanax-free lives.
Record scratch ... wtf? Wine? Why would anyone train an animal to drink wine?! But wait, it gets worse!
On the day of the attack, the animal -- because let's get this straight, Travis was an animal, not a human -- had been acting oddly, so Herold gave him some tea. Laced with Xanax!
I guess she didn't give him much of a dose, or maybe he'd built up a tolerance, because he still managed to escape. Herold's friend Charla Nash came over to try to help coax Travis back into the house.
For some unknown reason (except maybe that he's a wild animal?) Travis attacked Nash. To get him off her friend, Herold stabbed Travis several times with a butcher knife and hit him with a shovel.
The stabbing and shovel hitting didn't kill Travis. When the police arrived, he came after them, so they shot him. Repeatedly. Travis "retreated to his sleeping quarters" where he died.
Herold wasn't a trained primatologist -- she and her husband acquired Travis after their daughter died, and raised him like a child. A child with gigantic canines and a diet of wine and Xanax.
You know where this tragic story starts and ends? With the criminally stupid a-holes who thought it would be "fun" or "cute" to have a pet chimp in the suburbs of Connecticut.
My heart goes out to the friend, Charla Nash, who's in the hospital fighting for her life. And my money is going to Save the Chimps, an organization that rescues chimps from nut jobs like the Herolds, and teaches chimps the skill they need to live normal, wild Xanax-free lives.
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