Irresponsible
Irresponsible: (Adjective) Not showing a proper sense of responsibility.In what has got to violate some kind of animal cruelty laws, the Kardashian family has apparently adopted a chimpanzee. Kim Kardashian writes on her blog:
Her name is Suzy, she is three years old, and she is a handful!
She steals our BlackBerrys and climbs up my mom's bed.
Having a monkey is a lot of work. Suzy always has her diaper on and we are the ones who have to change it!
It's just like having an infant but worse because Suzy runs around like a teenager! She always needs to be fed, drinks out of a bottle and she loves Capri Sun juices! (Source)
Sooo... I'm guessing no one told them that those things can rip your face off? Please, please no one tell them that those things can rip your face off. This could be the start of a really great trend. Today the Kardashian family adopts a chimpanzee. Tomorrow, Heidi and Spencer adopt a lion cub. Then maybe down the road a bit, the Hogans can adopt a genetically created velociraptor. Yeah, yeah. I know that last one is just plain silly. But a girl can dream, can't she?
Yeah, that story about the chimp attack is terrifying. The woman who was attacked is now a candidate for a face transplant (this is true!). The owner lived with this thing for years like they were married.
Personally, chimps creep me out. My least favorite primate. They look too much like us and are freakishly strong. If you look at an adult chimp, you can see the hate in its eyes.
I work at a sanctuary with chimpanzees and other abandoned primates. This is completely ridiculous. Once the chimp hits adolescence (about 5-7 years old) and gets to the point where it can kill them, they will either sell it to a biomedical company, or dump it off on a cash-strapped sanctuary that will have to care for it for the next 40 years. And most sanctuaries aren't like putting a horse "out to pasture"... they are overcrowded places where all the animals are in cages, where they have nothing to do all day but stare off into space. Suzy's got a great life ahead of her!
Thanks a lot, Kardashians, you stupid whores.
The more I look at the pictures, I'm a bit suspicious. I think they've just borrowed the chimp from a trainer. In two of the pictures, the chimp is "smiling"... chimps don't do that unless they are trained. They almost never make that face unless they are highly threatened. Wait, having to hang out with the Kardashians... now that face makes sense.
@ Mrs. Plainview - have you ever seen Planet Earth? There is one episode where they show a chimp tribe attacking another. The leader is this old, grizzled chimp with one eye all milky white and blind. At one point he looks into the camera and it is absolutely TERRIFYING. I was always been rationally afraid of orangutans but after that I elevated chimps to "Holy fuck that thing would and could kill you without hesitation" status.
At least this adoption raises the average IQ of the Kardashian household residents.
But then again, so would adopting a more conventional pet, like a Golden Retriever...
Umm. WTF?
Should a monkey be having Capri Sun's as part of its diet???