Image from City-Data.comChannel 4 showed this documentary tonight, about people in the US buying capuchin monkeys to dress them-up like dollies, diaper them and pretend they're their babies.
I had to switch over - I actually felt like I was watching the equivalent of kiddie porn as some fat, middle-aged housewife smeared lipstick over a dollie-dressed, dead-eyed capuchin and insisted 'she likes it, she wouldn't sit still if she didn't!'.
I didn't even know this kind of stuff went on. Those poor, poor monkeys - bred in cages to be torn away from their mothers at eight or nine days old and handed over to some complete fantasist who's then going to set about suppressing all their natural instincts as best as they can for the next... forty years? And how indicative of our complete lack of empathy for any other species that we don't see that as an issue. I don't even know why I'm blogging this... I usually reserve this space for clumsy veganisations of junk food and pix of my little darlings... I guess having been raised to be a bit cynical, and seen enough AR footage to be like, 'yeah, that's bad, man, but am I surprised? No... ' I was just... so, so shocked when watching this documentary I felt I had to blog about it! It was so bad my poor, long-suffering husband had to find a semi-humorous documentary about breasts to snap me out of it...
So, to cheer myself up, here's some more pix of my little darlings in the summer sun.
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I read about this in the Radio Times but missed the programme. I'm glad I did as I didn't realise it would be quite as bad. Those poor wee animals. It makes you feel so helpless...
Great pics of the kids, though, as always! :o)
Breasts, eh? Who did you say he found the programme for???
Glad to see you back, even if it took a horrible programme. You're not blogging nearly enough these days!
Thanks Penny! It was a grotty documentary - I thought it would be similar to the ones about mad women buying hideously expensive dolls to baby and middle-aged, loner men marrying their blow-up dolls but, alas, it was nowhere near as light-hearted!
As for breasts, there is a long-standing obsession with breasts and bums in our household that every member of the family seems to have inherited... Rory can actually see breasts in everyday objects, much like some people can see saints in their marmite lid... (^_^)
That's really disturbing :(
That sounds awful. I always have a hard time watching docos on animal cruelty of any kind, but maybe I should get ahold of that boob movie to improve my mood afterwards!
That's really awful.. :(
Just for a second, from the title and photo, I thought you'd adopted a capuchin!! Glad to see you haven't, those people are disturbed freaks of the highest order. Didn't see the doc but saw the trailers...
And the clan are looking gorgeous out there in the sun! Hx
Niecey, Neha - It really was!
Theresa - Boobs always improve the mood in the Skint Vegan household, must have something to with our burlesque roots... !
Helen - Happy Belated Birthday,, btw! The kids LOVED the sunny weather at the weekend, and so did I!
And who are we kidding "for the next 40 years?"...it'll be a year or two when they're not cute and babies anymore and then they'll get bored with them and then what will happen??
I despair I really do!
Yeah, I do not like watching documentaries like this. Poor little monkeys. It is so sad.
The kid pictures are so cute. Glad you are back blogging.
xoox
Jeni - that was exactly what I thought!
Krys - thanks!!
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