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Re: Re: Do you remember the ads in magazines and COMIC BOOKS?
that sea monkey reply was for majroj, sorry to forget to add your name to my answer.
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benzinha
on February 1, 2009 at 12:48 PM
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Re: monkeys
rockingrector, the little babies are darling, loving, needy and sweet. Girls continue to be civilized, if left mostly uncaged, but the boys get huge pointy teeth, dangly bits that change their attitudes and behaviors and can rip parts of you off without really hating you, in a peevish moment.
So, he's the cutest little video baby ever, but I've met his great great great great great uncle who ripped my friend to pieces, the one who made me buy the sister of his monkey.
We have to save them somewhere safe until some part of the Amazonas can be made just for them to live in as they are meant to. Os indios eat the moms and dads and make malnourished pets of the babies or sell them to tourists. Amazonas pet babies are all reddish with malnutrition.
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benzinha
on February 1, 2009 at 12:47 PM
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Re: Do you remember the ads in magazines and COMIC BOOKS?
My sea monkeys always died too soon, too soon. Sigh. I met the guy who sold those 100 soldiers, potato guns and shrunken heads on the comic backs, sold back then in my olden days. He was giving seminars on how to replicate his success.
Yup, make you feel coldhearted not to buy doggie insurance and have dialysis for them and chemo.
posted by
benzinha
on February 1, 2009 at 12:42 PM
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I can't imagine owning a monkey, although I longed to have one as a child. But such things just don't happen in the UK. Dogs, cats, goldfish, hamsters, parrots, but not monkeys! He's
so cute.
posted by
Rockingrector_retd
on February 1, 2009 at 10:18 AM
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Do you remember the ads in magazines and COMIC BOOKS?
Youn could buy squirrel monkeys, raccoons, real squirrels, etc.
I guess our concept of petkeeping was different then, keep em going for as long as you could and then "too bad/so sad". Now we want them to last beyond their lifespan and are afraid the Animal Cops wil arrest us if we don't.
posted by
majroj
on January 31, 2009 at 8:46 AM
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Re: What a little dear and I would adore caring for one of these and how
Kabu, at first they were so young and such chums that they ignored her, kinda like Aussie blokes, I hear. heh heh heh
She ignored us and only paid attention to them when we went back to see her just before leaving the country. Dunno if she hated us for abandoning her or was so happy that we no longer were on her radar. But, definite monkey business as the woman had her home inside made just for monkey business with trapezes, etc. all over and nothing for them to destroy.
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benzinha
on January 30, 2009 at 9:46 PM
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Re: bezinha
I remember your brother's death in your past blog entries. So sorry that you missed out on the monkey. Sorrier still that you missed out on having your brother grow up with you, WileyJohn.
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benzinha
on January 30, 2009 at 9:42 PM
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What a little dear and I would adore caring for one of these and how
wonderful of you to find yours monkey friends in the end. Boy monkeys hmnnn I suppose that meant monkey business
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Kabu
on January 30, 2009 at 8:39 PM
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bezinha
What a lovely animal. I waited in excitement for about 2 years because my brother Michael promised to send one home for me from India during the war. Unfortunately he was shot down over the Himalayas and died there.
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WileyJohn
on January 30, 2009 at 8:26 PM
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TExasGem, I bought the monkey without permission, but sort of got permission as it was expensive for an American,
special prices just for you and my friend had bought the little male monkey already before taking me there....they knew I was a sucker.
We, in my family, were all a band of wild monkeys, but we added two more anyway. One a marmoset, tufted named Mofu, and the wooley, Bigo.
It was grand while they were happy and carefree and too sad when it all fell apart and Mofu died and we had to give Bigo away.
So, what kind of a monkey did you act like???!?!? And, thanks for the read and comment.
posted by
benzinha
on January 30, 2009 at 8:14 PM
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Don't be sad! Be gald for the years that you had your pet. I always wanted a monkey but my family said I didn't need one because I acted like a monkey! lol
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Texas_Gem
on January 30, 2009 at 7:08 PM
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