You only cover us when our chimpanzee attacks a visitor & is killed!!!

I love primates. What a sad story. The part about him retreating to his living quarters to die got me (even though he obviously had to be shot).

 

A 200-pound chimp?

Is that, I hope, as big as those things get?

 

BYH...I went ape shit over the headline you posted with this thread. It's the headline that draws readers to stories, right? ;D

 

NYP cover, BTW:

 

That's a great Post headline.

 

Even better, in the story, was the writer saying the chimp "went bananas."

 

Proof positive, then, that it's still funny.

 

Nice, chimp was on Xanax!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29227429?GT1=43001

 

When it comes down to it, it's the animal's primal survival instinct kicking in. Kill or be killed, and some kind of threat will always trigger that - even with house pets (cats and dogs, particularly), no matter how "domesticated" they may be.

What did Chris Rock say? "That tiger didn't go crazy! That tiger went tiger!"

I hate stories like this. Does someone REALLY need a chimp as a house pet? And WTF was that person doing giving Xanax to an animal?

 

Screw y'all wanting to be lawyers or sports management gurus or burger flippers. I'm going to be a vet pharmacist.

 

Cougargirl.... i feel the same way when i read one of these types of stories. "Python kills longtime owner" or "Tiger eats right leg of veteran keeper."
Duhh.....no shit that shit eventually happens...
This is a python, this is a tiger....they did not grow up in a gated community where life was all hunky dory and they had a nanny.
Such animals, etc., get pissed sometimes and it's hell to pay by the owner whose mind was apparently wandering when he bought the "pet" in the first place.
So let's not get all surprised that, sometimes, these "pets" react differently than maybe the Dr. Spock vet who told the owners they would be fine with regular attendance at 12-step programs.
It's like the dude who guns down half of the shoppers at a local mall and, invariably, the next-door neighbor tells Local Channel Reporter "but he was so quiet and never bothered anybody."

 

"Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!"