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www.wildfutures.org to learn more about our work, including our rescue and rehabilitation work at the Monkey Sanctuary, Cornwall.
Boo-Boo
Boo-Boo (or Boo for short!) was living in a family's garden until rescued by the Monkey Sanctuary . Her owners contacted the Sanctuary when Boo-Boo began displaying signs of sterio-typical behaviours from being understimulated and living alone. Boo-Boo had initially been bought by the family from a breeder who sold her to them as a male capuchin. The family had no idea that Boo-Boo was a female until the Sanctuary's vets informed them when Boo was rescued some years later!
Boo explores her new home
The family later began to be harassed by the breeder who demanded more money than they had originally paid and then started to demand Boo back. Although puzzled and distrurbed by this at the time the family tried their hardest to ignore this harassment, changing their phone numbers and taking other precautions.
In the pet trade, female monkeys are worth more than male because they are used for breeding purposes to make more baby monkeys to sell. Baby monkeys are often taken away from their mothers before being weaned and this has a huge effect on both the physical and pscological welfare of the baby and mother. Boo-Boo was sold as a male, probably by accident by the breeder who, upon realising his mistake, tried to intimidate the family into paying out more money or returning Boo to him.
Boo is settling in well into a large social group of black-capped capuchins. She has made a great friend, Mickey, another female black-cap and Charlie Brown, a male. Boo and Joey are also great friends and she became his first 'girlfriend' last year, although this was not a monogamous or long-lasting relationship, it was an important one, especially for Joey who until coming to the Sanctuary had spent his life in a tiny cramped cage and has permenant disabilities because of this treatment.
Adopting Boo-Boo will help the Sanctuary to care and look after this young capuchin, but will also go towards helping our campaign to end the pet trade. Many more monkeys like Boo are living lonely and under-stimulated lives as pet in the UK; with your help, we can help them.
As an Adopter of a monkey at The Monkey Sanctuary you will recieve:
* A personalised Adoption certificate
* A photo of your adopted monkey
* Newsletters from The Monkey Sanctuary three times per year
*Your monkey's story and updates on their lives at the Sanctuary
*A fact sheet about your monkey's species
*A pass for a year's free entry to the Monkey Sanctuary in Cornwall
When paying for an adoption of Boo-Boo, please enter the name and address of the adopter in the payment section marked 'Delivery Note'...especially if the adoption is a gift for a person other than yourself! This will ensure a swift delivery of your adoption.
Please ensure that you press the UPDATE button when adding your adopter details on the delivery note.
A percentage of the adoption scheme also goes to help Siglo XXI, another rescue centre in Chile working to end the pet trade.
