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Next weekend I'm going to pick up my newest family member!
I am getting a 1 and a half year old male rhesus. Friendly, likes small dogs and cats. Wears diapers and likes to take baths!
His owners have no longer anytime for him and he is so sweet I knew I couldn't pass him up dispite my extreme fondness for capuchins hehe.
Orginally we were getting a squirrel monkey but happily his owner decided to keep him
-Rachel
*Monkeys are my best friend. Maybe not my husbands but mine*
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How cool .... have any pictures of any of your monkies? I've always wanted a monkey!
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Ya! The one with her tounge stickin out is Abby and the one in the carrier is Aaron!
<img src="http://www.boomspeed.com/dogi/abbymonkey.jpg">
<img src="http://www.boomspeed.com/dogi/monkeybaby.jpg">
-Rachel
*Monkeys are my best friend. Maybe not my husbands but mine*
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Oh my gosh... they are so adorable!!! Where do you live? Where do you get your monkies? Do I dare ask, how much did you have to pay for them? LOL!!!
I want one! (someday)
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AWWWWW!!!! I wanna come over to your house!!!!
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congrats!! monkey's are so cooltake pictures!
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So sweet looking! Where do you live? (like the USA etc.) I bet monkeys can get into lots of trouble real quick like!!!!!
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1.I live in Connecticut, USA on a ranch so my dog and my monkids have a lot of room to roam AND so I can keep my horses on my proporty.
2.I got Abby and Aaron for a breeder I found. I go to something called "Monkey Get Together" where all these people bring their monkeys. That's where I met the women who was giving away her rhesus.
3.It costs $3.00 a day to keep a monkey. Plus the cage (actually you can buy one second hand for cheaper) plus the monkey itself and more often or not you have to specially order their food (most pet stores do not carry it).
But otherwise they are very sweet lil kids! You should see them when they take a bath!
-Rachel
*Monkeys are my best friend. Maybe not my husbands but mine*
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This is probably a dumb question ... but I have to ask.
Is it not possible to housetrain a monkey?
You said the new monkey you are getting wears diapers? Is that because it can't be housebroken, or does it have a medical problem of some sort?
I have just always assumed, knowing nothing about monkeys, that they were housetrained like a dog or a cat? I have always heard monkeys are very intelligent, so I assumed they would easily housetrain.
Not true?
Just curious.
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Answer to your question twisterdog:
Some not all monkeys can be houstrained (but believe me it isn't easy!) If you do manage to train them they will quickly ignore this training when they become older. All my monkeys wear cloth diapers which are reusable and saves money.
-Rachel
*Monkeys are my best friend. Maybe not my husbands but mine*
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Wow. You are WAY more patient than I am!
I could NEVER handle that ... I could barely handle that with my human child!
I wonder why they can't be housetrained? Strange.
Good luck with your new monkey!
"We give dogs the time we can spare, the space we can spare and the love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made" - M. Facklam
"We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams."- P.S. Beagle
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king." - J.R.R. Tolkien
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Sorry to be a pest, but I have another question .....
Do they lay there quietly and let you change their diapers? Or is a battle?
Just curious ....
"We give dogs the time we can spare, the space we can spare and the love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made" - M. Facklam
"We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams."- P.S. Beagle
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king." - J.R.R. Tolkien
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Don't worry I love to answer questions people have about monkeys.
Well it difers from monkey to monkey whether they will be good about changing diapers or being bad about it. Aaron is generally very good about getting his diaper changed but Abigail is an absolute monster! She screeches and scratches and twich bit me.
I still love her to death
-Rachel
*Monkeys are my best friend. Maybe not my husbands but mine*
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Tell us more.
Do you teach the monkeys to do things such as ......feed themselves, play with toys, etc. How do you control them in the house? Do they run around and play? What do they eat?
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Wow! Many people I've met online think monkeys are the stupidest things to have for a pet (Only I don't think of mine as pets...they are my monkeykids!)
You don't really teach those behaviours...they do it themselves. I have taught them to do highfive and when I say "Are you hungry" they rub their tummies.
Sometimes they are allowed to roam free like at night when they play on our bed. Mostly I put them on leashes which helps control them. Sometimes I let them run around and play with each other which is good for them.
They eat a commercial primate diet along with fresh fruits and veggies and sweet potato. They also like mealworms as a treat. Sometimes in the morning we go down to McDonolds and they share a biscuit with egg and bacon with me.
-Rachel
*Monkeys are my best friend. Maybe not my husbands but mine*
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