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Lisa Marie Presley to Animal Exhibitor: 'Don't Be Cruel'
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An anonymous whistleblower at an Illinois Park District contacted PETA after witnessing the owners of Ed and Annette's Monkeys & More—a company that provides animals for parties and other functions—transport Lisa Marie (the baby chimpanzee) in a Rubbermaid bin to and from events.
Ed and Annette purchased Lisa Marie from a Missouri primate breeder who removed her from her mother within weeks of birth. Now, when she's not being dragged to community events and children's parties, Lisa Marie lives alone in a barren cage. She will likely grow too strong for her handlers by the time she's 8 years old and be tossed aside to a roadside zoo to languish for decades—if she doesn't have a breakdown and hurt someone first.
To show support for our efforts to rescue Lisa Marie and other baby chimpanzees from abuse in the entertainment industry, Lisa Marie Presley has written to Ed and Annette's Monkeys & More urging them to release her namesake to an accredited sanctuary.
As a lifelong Elvis fan, I think he'd agree that any business that cashes in on chimpanzees is "Too Much Monkey Business."
Posted by Karin Bennett
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How does this Ed and Annette's business get insurance? WILD ANIMALS BECOME FEARFUL AND BITE PEOPLE.
Remember the chimp episode? Have we forgotten?
Who would ever have wild animals, tortured by these people, brought to parties to potentially bite children?
I can't believe this company can even exist!
Who is their insurance company?
So Missouri is not only the puppy mill capital of the US. It is the monkey and ape torturing state too!
Posted by: Joe | July 20, 2009 02:18 PM
LMP is a beautiful person inside and out.
Posted by: Tahler | July 21, 2009 01:12 AM
I hope LMP gets them to release these poor animals to a sanctuary.
Posted by: helen Dighton | July 22, 2009 04:54 AM
Hey Lisa Marie, you just went up a lot in my opinion. Getting more and more like your Daddy. Thank you.
Posted by: alex Hamilton | August 6, 2009 07:13 AM