What: Whether working to protect endangered species from canned hunts (in which animals are kept in confined areas) or facilitate low-cost spay/neuter procedures for cats and dogs, Friends of Animals has been at the forefront of animal advocacy since 1957.
Young Oliver sometimes moved fully upright, instead of hunching forward on shoulders and arms as most chimpanzees do. Yet like many others in the 1960s, Oliver was stolen as a youngster from a family of chimpanzees, and would never again go home.
Thanks for the wisdom that framed the editorial "Wild animals are not pets."
It's dogs and cats in state animal shelters who need to be rescued from homelessness and systematic destruction, not monkeys. The DEP has weakened the ban on keeping wild animals as pets by allowing possession if acquired prior to 2009. An unenforceable sell-out.
Feb. 16 will mark two years since Travis, the chimpanzee from North Stamford, viciously attacked the friend of his owner and was killed by a police officer.
On the day before that tragic anniversary, the state Department of Environmental Protection will hold a public hearing on a list of wild and exotic animals to be banned in the state.
Buck was born on the 15th of September 1994, to be kept as one of three chimpanzee pets in a Missouri house.
As the couple that owned Buck aged, it became apparent that Buck would outlive them -- and it became terribly expensive to keep three mature chimpanzees in a house.
