Archive for 'Filipino Monkey'

Name My Monkey — Poll

Saturday, March 28th, 2009 at 4:51 pm  
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Monkey Business

We have just added a Filipino Monkey to our home as of 2:30PM 03-28-2009. She is much more tame than I expected but she is also quite wild and afraid. She also appears to be tired, very tired and perhaps depressed. She keeps laying her head on the cage.

I’ve already started grooming her through the bars of the cage. She doesn’t much like the cage but she’s got to feel safe before I try to handle her. I’m trying to talk to her by smacking my lips and I finally got her to return it. I think I got a monkey smile but smiles are hard to tell from threat display. When our eyes first met she glared at me. No doubt that was a threat.

Blaming Myself

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 at 10:51 pm  
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My pastor and some other people I knew told me that i blamed myself for too much. That I took on troubles that I didn’t cause or I’d take all the blame when there was lots of blame to spread. I always saw it as turning the other cheek or…

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Someone Murdered George, My Monkey

Monday, July 28th, 2008 at 4:25 pm  
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I’m very sad to say that George is dead. Someone intentionally killed him. And they wanted to make sure we knew this. Someone took the chain from around his waste and tied him up to the fence with it. It is really guy wire but hard to explain. Guy wire wrapped in a collar, put on by a vet or other animal professional. There was no way George could get that off and if he had, he wouldn’t have wrapped it around the chain link fence. Jessie also noticed that he had blood under his nails. So at least he made someone bleed.

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