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A PUBLIC APPEAL has been launched after a monkey went missing from a sanctuary in Wicklow.
Charlie, a 22-year-old Capuchin monkey, was a resident of the Monkey Sanctuary in Rathdrum until he made an escape at the start of the Christmas period.
The sanctuary’s director Willie Heffernan has urged anyone who has caught sight of the primate to contact gardaí or the sanctuary itself, but also to be careful of Charlie.
“The missing monkey is only the size of a domestic cat so he’s quite harmless but he’s not a pet so it’s best to treat him as a feral cat,” he told The Journal.
Charlie was rescued from a UK laboratory which was closing down 20 years ago and had been happily living on the Sanctuary in Rathdrum “without any incident”, until his escape.
He has had minimal contact with humans, as the animals are fed via a pulley mechanism delivering food to the island once a day.
“So he won’t make contact with people himself. A lot of farms will have dogs that could kill him and he wouldn’t be used to traffic, so he’s got a lot of things against him,” Heffernan said.
However, he’s considered a good forager and an excellent climber, so it’s possible he’ll find some comforts in Wicklow’s woodland.
“It’s an incredibly heavy wooded area so he’s in heaven at the moment apart from the winter. Our hope is to get him back safe – I’ve got a license to carry a tranquiliser dart so we can subdue him safely with that if anyone sees him.”
Should be warning the monkey about us.
@Rodger Waters: they would if they knew how to contact him… Seems his phone’s been off all this time and he hasn’t used his bank cards either… Total mystery.
Look in central perk, ask for Ross.
@Spanner: 20 people thumbed up your comment… Beggars belief that they have a clue what you meant… Did u even know?
@Jon Doesn’t: If someone has to explain the joke probably best you don’t comment on it.
@Jon Doesn’t: The one where the monkey escaped.
@Jon Doesn’t: your not a Friends fan are you!
Maybe he’s making his way back to the Capuchin day centre for a bit of dinner.
Charlie and the banana republic, now there’s a story …
@Temp Stuff: no there isn’t…
Long gone by now. New identity, passport, 50k in various currencies, a cigar and a beret waiting with a tricycle for him. He still has friends in the friary.
@Turkish Delight: he’s here 20 years now. He probably just got his keys to his social housing apartment
So,
where’s the phone number or email address to contact the centre?
Absolute terrible journalistic piece.
Its actually laughable they didnt give out their phone number.
Ring the garda.
Yeah like that gonna be them in a hurry to go searching up trees for a monkey. Can you imagine the jokes?
Terrible job Journal, get on the blower and get their phone number, not everyone has internet on their phones.
Me and a couple of mates would actually go looking but without a number to ring whats the point. The garda 999 is for emergency only i wouldnt ring that.
The animals as small as a cat. Someones taking the Michael.
@Denis Rathsallagh Brady: looked it up on Wicklownews.net:
call William Heffernan on 0833581276.
@Flo Roche: Well done Flo thank you. I suppose i couldve done that myself but i honestly would not have known were to look.
Anyhow well done you, Happy new year to you and yours.x
I’d say he high tailed it to Wexford.
If he has any sense he immigrate
@Francis O Riordan: or emigrate even..
Lure him back with the latest edition of the Capuchin Annual.
If the monkey is swinging in the trees in Wicklow, then he’s at home. Leave him alone.
Outbreak!!! Life imitating art
He has most likely made it to Leinster house by now.
@Richard Brady: No chance. He’s far too intelligent to meet those monkeys
Probably heading for the zoo to do a few shots of Monkey 47 gin with his buddies.
This Monkeys Gone To Heaven
Leo Will Take him in.
In Costa having a capuchino!
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Probably waiting for the dole office to open
Chimply unbelievable!
He’s with Ricky Gervais
Here’s the phone number in case you spot the monkey, should have been in the article!
Call William Heffernan on 0833581276.
It would be Charlie the cheeky monkey
The weather would freeze the ba**s off a brass monkey… let alone a real one !!!
Hopefully, the little creature is found safe…
He’s joined People Before Profits
@Paul: Ah come on now. He’s not that dumb.
What’s Tommy Tiernan response
Has science or technology not developed imitation “scents” or instruments to imitate the “call” of ‘female monkey in heat’ or something, that they could roll out throughout the forests to try to attract him, for sedation & capture?
Or, could the Government not just temporarily suspend Hunting in the forests throughout the area, until Charlie is found?
And instead, maybe, hand out sedation rifles to those Hunters and call on all those who take part in Hunting to instead help to find Charlie? And, if necessary/if given the go-ahead, to hit Charlie with sedation dart and return him to his well deserved sanctuary, after spending his earliest years of life in a frikken horrible nasty Lab for animal experimentation.
Charlie deserves a long life free of any further human-instigated strife.
Pity we can’t get him a *few ladies* – also rescued from animal labs or traffickers (anywhere in the world. Probably loony yankee-land has an abundance….. someone give Florida a call…)
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