----- Original Message ----- From: Linda J. Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 21, 2000 4:08 AM Subject: [alloprimate] PLEASE HELP SAVE JAVA MACAQUE FROM UNFAIR DEATH SENTENCE! >Dear List, > >There's an article in today's Chicago Tribune (see below for full >article) about a Java macaque who attacked his "owner." > >The authorities in Illinois want to kill Zip to perform "rabies >test." There is NO excuse for this death warrant... First, Zip >is not at fault. Secondly, he has never been out the Huscher's >house to be exposed to rabies. > >The National Sanctuary for Retired Research Primates in San >Antonio, Texas has generously agreed to give Zip a permanent >home if the authorities will agree to relinquish him. [Thanks >Carol!] > >Please call or write the Cooke County Department of Animal >Rabies Control [Phone No. 708-974-6140, Address 10220 South >76th Avenue, Bridgeview IL 60455] and POLITELY request >that Zip be placed in the sanctuary. > >NOTE: National Sanctuary for Retired Research Primates has >a bio-safety facility where Zip will automatically be quarantined. >At NSRRP, Zip would pose no threat to the public but he would >be afforded the companionship of other monkeys and wonderful >care to live out the rest of his life. > >Zip is a 7-8 year old, intact male Java macaque and still has >his canine teeth. He came from Florida... was bottle-raised >from infancy. > >I spoke to Cathy Huscher (the "owner") this morning. She's >still in the hospital and may be released today as an outpatient. >[The infectious disease physician sent blood from Zip and Cathy >to CDC on Wednesday. Test results are not yet back.] Despite >the attack, Cathy wants nothing more than to help save Zip's >life and to see him released to a sanctuary. > >Please help Zip! >Thank you for taking the time to make a difference, >Linda > > >PET MONKEY ATTACK PUTS ITS OWNER IN HOSPITAL >25-POUND ANIMAL NO `MONSTER,' WOMAN SAYS > >By Maria T. Galo, Chicago Tribune Staff Writer >February 20, 2000 > >William Huscher will never forget the chaotic, bloody scene that greeted him >when he returned home after picking up some Chinese take-out. > >Huscher's wife, Cathy, 44, was lying on the floor of their Lansing home with >paramedics tending to wounds inflicted by her pet Java monkey, Zip, who >attacked her after being let out of his cage last Sunday night. > >"There was blood everywhere, it was horrible," said Huscher, 42, on Friday. >"I was so mad because of that monkey. All the family, they all hated him, >and she would get mad at us because everyone hated him." > >Cathy Huscher lost a pint and a half of blood in the attack, with >6-inch-deep bites and cuts on her head, arms and legs. She underwent three >hours of surgery last Sunday at Community Hospital in Munster, Ind. On >Friday, she was in stable condition, a nursing supervisor said. > >Despite the attack, she still thinks affectionately of Zip and thinks he may >have been neglected or abused by previous owners. > >"Don't make him out to be a monster," she said from her hospital room. "He >was my baby." > >Still, when the monkey leaped from the cage onto her head with a little >scream, "I thought I was going to die," she said. > >The monkey will be killed, William Huscher said, and his brain examined for >rabies. > >Lansing police ticketed the Huschers for having a monkey without a license. > >Cathy Huscher also faces about 12 weeks of therapy as doctors wait for the >wounds to heal before trying any reconstructive surgery, her husband >said.Her left arm was badly damaged when she tried to yank it out of the >monkey's jaws, and the attack also left a fist-size hole behind her right >knee. > >The attack came just three days before an Illinois House panel defeated a >bill to add primates to the list of pets banned under the Illinois Dangerous >Animals Act. > >William Huscher is convinced that monkeys are dangerous. "They belong in >trees, they don't belong in people's homes," he said. > >The Great Java monkey looks like a small baboon with fang-like incisors that >are "the size of your pinkie, on top and bottom," Huscher said. Zip weighs >about 25 pounds and stands 2 feet high. > >The Huschers, who also own two miniature Doberman pinschers, got the >7-year-old monkey about a year ago from a friend. Zip bit Cathy Huscher on >the hand the first day, her husband said. About five months later, the >monkey attacked one of the dogs, and then, a few months ago, he jumped on >Cathy Huscher and bit and scratched her on the head. > >"But it was nothing major, just some little scratches and teeth marks," >William Huscher said. > >But William Huscher said he did not like being home when the monkey was out >of its cage. > >Last Sunday, Cathy Huscher said she was going to let the monkey out to play. >"I said, `then I'm leaving,' " her husband said, and drove off to pick up >dinner. > >When he saw emergency vehicles in the driveway upon his return, "I knew >right away, I knew what it was, it was the monkey," he said. > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! 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