Cathy Liss, president of the Animal Welfare Institute (AWIOnline), writes in a guest opinion piece that we should end the primate pet trade before more people get hurt:
FILE: A white-faced capuchin Monkey is pictured at the Summit Park Animal Shelter in Panama City on June 4, 2020. Sally was being kept in a trailer, tied to a bed with 10-pound weights, when the 15-year-old girl and her mother first gazed upon the Capuchin monkey after driving from Alabama to Satsuma, a small community in Florida’s Putnam County.
The pair paid Sally’s owner $9,500 cash. Shortly after, Sally did what monkeys often do when they feel threatened or want to establish dominance — she bit the teen.made national headlines, yet it is one of hundreds of reported injuries from captive primates over the last few decades.was blinded and lost most of her face and hands after being mauled by her neighbor’s pet chimpanzee.
Due to a lack of consistent oversight, no one really knows how many primates across the United States are held captive by breeders, dealers and private owners as part of the lucrative and sometimes clandestine pet trade, but conservative estimates suggest that there are at least 15,000. About half of all states prohibit private possession of some or all primate species, yet these bans do not extend across state lines, allowing exotic pet websites to continue to advertise primates like Sally.
One promising solution is for Congress to pass the Captive Primate Safety Act, which would prohibit any interstate trade in primates for the pet market. This legislation,
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