It is time for another blog for “Living With Monkeys.” I love writing them especially when they have something to do with a story!

(Story Time)
On Friday, I had the pleasure of going back to a wonderful place where there was a room full of Alzheimer residents waiting for us to start our presentation. So, for my third visit to this group, I decided to take my “Meet and Greet” pair of monkeys, Silly Willy and Sissy Lou-La-La.

I went through the same preparations that I always do of gathering props and washing the monkeys. This day I decided to wash Sissy first and when I finished drying her I placed her in one of my cages in the kitchen which has two warm lights on the top of the cage.

I went over to open up the cage that Silly Willy was in and proceeded to give him his bath next. Soon after his drying time with the box heater and his towel I turned around and saw Sissy's smiling face and decided to put the two of the monks together as I had done the previous week. This time I was placing Silly Willy into Sissy's space instead of moving her into his space.

The first thing that I noticed while watching them was that Silly Willy was eating all of her food and she was curled up on one of the blankets just wanting him to groom her freshly cleaned fur. She was being so submissive and sweet to him as he was eating up all of her special saved food.

I kept looking in on them as I was continuing to get myself ready for our monkey visit. Each time I checked on them they were choosing to settle into doing a little bit of grooming, eating and playing which is exactly what I wanted to see.

Soon it was time to load the monkeys so I decided to put both of them in the same cage that was beside me on the passenger's seat. I walked around the van, slid into the driver's seat, and pulled out of the garage.

By the time I had asked for God to bless our trip, and driven to the main highway, I started hearing sounds coming from the cage next to me. I looked down and saw Sissy's smiling face and thought, well this is great they are getting along so well in the cage together. Silly Willy is not crying and Sissy is happy.

In the next moment I started seeing the cage rock side to side and hearing very loud thumps coming from the cage. I knew instantly that the next sounds could be the sound of a full fledged fight happening with hair being pulled out and all that goes along when a problem occurs with two monkeys.

Of course, I was driving and I could not get over immediately so I reached over and opened up the cage and once again all I could see was Sissy’s face with her mouth opened and her eyes sparkling like they had fireflies dancing in them. I spoke my calm words to them which went like this, “You two have fun. Don't worry Silly Willy. I will get you out just in a moment when I can pull over. You all have fun together; it is play-play time!” (Somehow, in my delusional state of thinking, I felt that my words were going to fix the problem.)LOL

When I was finally able to pull to a safe place to stop the van, I leaned down and looked into the cage. After taking one quick look at Silly Willy face I opened the cage up as fast as I could. He was pushing himself up against the back of the cage with a total look of panic upon his face. Of course, Sissy was still smiling as I reached into the cage to rescue my little precious boy monkey.

****Monkey's emotions are so much like our own.

    One moment we can be playing and having fun and then in the next moment the energy changes and we can choose to be bullies or even fearful of our loved ones. Every day I learn more about being human from living with these wonderful creatures.

We love to talk about the many different emotional states that monkeys will choose to express during their lives as they are living in captivity. Remember to get your copy of “Living With Monkeys” and learn more about monkeys and their emotions.

www.livingwithmonkeys.com is the place to get your quick down-loadable copy of “Living With Monkeys” The Baby Book – this is the foundation book for the series.

****By the way, as I am writing this blog Sissy and Silly Willy are in the cage in the kitchen grooming and loving on each other.

    They are very happy and enjoying being with each other right now - anyway. Monkeys - Monkeys - Monkeys – they also seem to be able to show forgiveness in some of the exact same ways as we do.

P.S. Sissy Lou-La-La is my 17 year old black and white Capuchin monkey. She is in full-blown “Teenage-Hood.” Remember to send blessings my way often because I will have 6 of my 8 monkeys as “Teenagers” when Silly Willy turns 8 in July of 2015

      (STORY CONTINUED)
Since I had to stop the van and separate Sissy and Silly Willy on my way to the presentation, I decided to make sure that I took each of the monkeys into the facility in their own separate cage. I was so thankful that I had read the lack of certain sounds and the energy changes in my two monkeys correctly.

****I knew instantly from the sounds that were coming from the cage that the monks had begun playing with each other.

    From continuing to listening to the thumps on the cage I also knew that there was a chance that one of them (or both) had chosen to show aggression towards the other one because the thumps were getting louder and louder.

****(SPECIAL NOTE) When you put two monkeys together for playtime it is important to watch their play. One important major difference that is always present in deciding if a monkey is doing regular play or aggressive play is as follows: Look and see what they are doing with their mouths. When two monkeys play happily together they will be chasing each other, running often and then some of the time they will be playing rough housing with each other. When they are rough housing they will be using their mouth on each other giving each other play bites. (It is also normal playtime gesturing for one monkey to chase another one and then turn around and start being the one that is being chased.

****As a monkey is play biting another monkey, their mouth will give you the key to knowing if their play is changing.

    When it is fun playtime their mouths will be opened and you can hear movement of air coming from their mouths. I call it their giggle sound. When the play becomes more intense the sound of this air coming from their mouths will stop and the monkeys will start pushing harder on each other as they play. (This is why I became concerned in what was happening with Sissy and Silly Willy in the van cage.)

    The smile on Sissy face was what threw me off a bit. If I had been at home I would have been able to fully listen for her play sounds which are often associated with her smile during her playtime.

****(SPECIAL NOTE) I hope this information about monkeys and their play behaviors will be very helpful. Many of you who have monkeys in your home will wish to have “Monkey Play Times” with your monkey and another monkey. I have seen many bites happen to my monkeys usually when play time turns bad.

    Often when two monkeys are good friends they just simply let a little nick from a K-9 go without taking issue with it happening. But on the other hand many times I have seen this same thing start the energy to shift between two monkeys and a bite will happen. Good luck with monkey play times. I highly recommend them for single housed monkeys. Remember to watch for their energy and body language to show you how they are doing from this detailed information.

****In the “Living With Monkeys” book I speak often about not engaging in playing with a baby monkey.

****Monkeys who are living in captivity with your family will often treat your family members in the same ways as they would treat the other monkeys that they might be living with in the wild.

****Playing and rough housing with a monkey is never the way to teach them about playing in captivity.

    Playing should only be casual type of play as you are joining with imitating their mouth being opened making their giggle noises. Please always remember to never over stimulate them. It is natural for a monkey to take play to the next level when they get older just as I saw it happen between Sissy and Silly Willy. I feel so thankful that I have not ever chosen to play over- stimulating play with my monkeys.

****I have learned a valuable lesson in watching my two “Meet and Greet” monkeys relating with each other during the last two weeks.

    I must be prepared for a battle to break out at any time between these two monkeys when they are spending time with each other. It is just a “monkey chemistry thing” that is happening between them as Silly Willy is approaching “Teenage-Hood.”

(On With The Story)
As I was walking down the hallway to visit with the Aheltimzers residents, I was getting very excited to see them once again. When I walked into the large room with the people circled around in their walkers and wheelchairs, it excited me to be welcomed with their smiles and warm sweet words. They were so thankful that I had returned to see them again.

When I brought Silly Willy out from behind the backdrop area, he was excited to see that he was back in a room which he recognized and was full of familiar faces. As I was walking around the room greeting each one of the audience with him, I noticed that he was looking behind me and getting very excited. He became so excited that I had to stop going around the circle. I knew I had to turn around to see what had made him become so excited.

Instantly when I saw her I knew what had caused him to act like that. Silly Willy had spotted a lady who looked very much like my mother who had died last May. I had never even thought about him missing or even remembering my mother who had been in a wheelchair for 4 years. It was a moment of very mixed emotions for me as I am sure you understand.

Silly Willy let me know that he remembers his grandmother who had been so loving to him for his entire life. This was a very special gift that he shared with me and I will always remember that moment in Silly Willy's life.

****Once again I am reminded how very advanced monkey are with their emotions and how they remember people, places and things in such similar ways as we do.

“Living With Monkeys” the book series will give you a better understanding of how monkeys embrace and choose to adapt to their world in captivity with your friends and family.

Go to: www.livingwithmonkeys.com and get your easy to down-load copy of the first book in the series “The Baby Book.” You will be glad that you did especially if you have a monkey or may be thinking of getting one in the future.

In the writing of “The Baby Book” I wanted to introduce as many things that I felt were important for new people who are thinking about getting a monkey to know about. Of course, programming, being consistent, and remembering to continue to introduce new things to a new monkey is talked about repeatedly in the book. But as I am working on “The Toddler Book,” I have realized how important it is for us to understand how gifted monkeys are in their abilities to “Read and Process All Types of Changing Energies” which are occuring around them.

****I am so thankful for my knowledge of the many gifts that monkeys are born with. I desire to raise Silly Willy staying very conscious of them and to teach others about these gifts.

      As I am analyzing and watching my Silly Willy change and grow through his toddler-hood years, I am learning how he responds to the energy changes so differently now that he is growing towards his teenage years.

I now have a better understanding as to why I was guided to design the “Living With Monkeys” series of book in the way that I did. “The Baby Book” is full of stories and information that will help people to understand the changes that will happen as your monkeys grow and change throughout the stages of their emotional growth into adulthood.

     (SPECIAL NOTE)  Their God-given skills, such as being wonderful “Energy Readers,” continue to grow and change and become more advanced during their lifetime.

      We have learned so much from having these wonderful creatures from God. We see how important their early programming is to them as their skills continue to grow and unfold as they age. The monkeys who live in the wild do not get to live out their full life expectancy as many of the monkeys who live in captivity do. I have always been watchful of my monkeys as they gained advancement in some of their skills and lost in others as they have aged.

Please go to www.livingwithmonkeys.com and get your easy to down-load copy of “The Baby Book." You will be glad that you did even if your monkey is an older monkey.

The last three weeks have been very hard on us fellow monkey-caregivers. One of us lost a monkey due to diabetes complications and another one lost their monkey due to a accidental bite and then another one lost their monkey after performing a grueling 4 ½ hour emergency surgery to fix a blockage.

Oh, I must mention that we monkey-caregiver friends have also been so concerned about the primate laws changing in the state of Ohio. We watched one of our friends say good-bye to her monkey before these laws changed and the monkey would soon be confiscated.
                           Wow!
All of the above were terrible losses to not only the individual monkey-caregivers, but to many of us who share and follow each others monkeys on the monkey groups and on Facebook.

****I am so worn out with the feelings of stress and the emotional feelings that these types of things make me choose to feel and that falls under one category, 

    This category has to be the only one of it's kind and that is - “Out of Control” which takes you to a complete feeling of helplessness.

****The feeling of being "out of control" is very prevalent when you are a monkey-caregiver, just as it is when you are a parent of a child.

  I do not have children but I must say having the monks is by far.. the closest things to it.

****The number one thing that is different is that the legal system has now become  very involved with the rules and regulations regarding monkeys.

  (Special Note)  If you do not like the feeling of      
“Out of Control" then please do not get a monkey!

      There will be so many times that you will feel these types of emotions while being a monkey-caregiver.  It takes a person or family on an very different type of journey when you choose to have a monkey. If you think there are times that you feel "out of control" with being a mom or dad to a child - then let me make this next statement very clear when I say...

****You can choose to be a monkey-caregiver but it is very important to remember this...  it is not a child - it is a monkey!

    The new laws that govern monkeys are a very different from when I first started owning monkeys twenty-five years ago.  It is very important that everyone must know the vet care, the daily diet and care of a monkey, are all very different from that of caring for a child.  You may use many children's items to care for a monkey but this does not make it a child. 

Please get your copy of “Living With Monkeys” The Baby Book and learn some of the reasons why your monkey is choosing to do some of the things they are doing now. You can also learn what it really takes to be a monkey-caregiver and what types of rules that you should follow to be successful with raising a monkey in captivity.

Go to: www.livingwithmonkeys.com  

****Join with me in sending love and healing prayers out to the families who are recovering from their deep hurt and loss in the monkey community.

     To loose a monkey is totally heart-breaking. These people need you to send them love and healing prayers often.

During the resent holiday time another monkey mom had to say good-bye to her precious monkey due to complication of diabetes. I wish that it was not necessary for me to write the first blog of 2014 on such a challenging subject but I must.

(Please send continued prayers out to this very heart-broken monkey mom and her friends and family members that are in such pain.)

        (QUESTION TIME) Do you know that for most of my 25 years with having monkeys that most of the time I have been touched with either having a diabetic monkey of my own or being around someone else who had a diabetics monkey?

****Diabetes in a monkey is a very hard illness to deal with and you must live everyday with the reality that your little special monkey could be taken away from you because of the many complications with managing this illness in them.
(This is hard to live with....)

(Please send out a prayer to the many of us who have loved and lost beloved monkeys to this disease which is very hard to handle in humans and even harder to handle in monkeys.)

****If you are going to become a monkey caregiver, it is very important to learn everything that you can about monkeys with diabetes.

I speak about programming over and over again in “The Living With Monkeys “ books. Understanding about a proper diet for your possible monkey is one of the most important things that needs to be discussed as you are making your early programming plans.

****(VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE) The way you feed your monkey can be a life or death thing.

      (Story Time) Dr. Norma Kenyon, who is very important at The University of Miami's Diabetic Research Center was sent to me from God in 2000, when my star performing monkey developed diabetes. When I gave the information to her over the phone about my very sick monkey, she understood instantly how I felt as a newly diagnosed monkey mom of a diabetic monkey. She had also walked in similar shoes ten years previously when her little infant daughter had been diagnosed with Type I diabetes at just a few weeks old.


She was so helpful and began quickly to inform me that she knew hundreds and hundreds of things about monkeys having diabetes. Her job at that time was to help the vets at the university balance and give the proper type and amount of insulin to the research monkeys that were at the facility. She was not only a mother of a diabetic child but she was also an immunologist who was actually getting hands on experience with monkeys who had diabetes everyday of her life.

Dr. Kenyon instantly gave me hope. These are a few of the important things that she first said to me:

1. “If you will listen to me and do as I tell you to do, we will have your monkey leveled and on the proper dosage of insulin within 2 weeks.”
   
   
2. “Maggie's life is going to change in the way that you have been feeding and     caring for her but you will see she is going to feel so much better.”
   
   

    3.  “Insulin will be the greatest gift for your monkey now.”

    4.  “Stop it.! Stop blaming yourself about this life change that your
          monkey must go through. She is going to be so much better very
         quickly.”

     5. “I know that this information will not make you feel better
          but you must know that the black-caps are one species of
         monkeys that are used here at the research center because they
         are one of the easiest types to give diabetes to.”


During the last 14 years so much new information has been gathered on diabetes in monkeys. There has also been so much more research that has been done and there are even new types of insulin that are available to care for my precious little Maggie Mae. She is now 21 years old.


(I would like for you to send prayers of gratitude to the monkeys who have sacrificed their lives in the research facilities to help develop the valuable insulin that has kept my Maggie Mae and millions of people healthy for all of these years.)

****Programming a baby monkey to be eager for their food and not for your foods is another one of the good programming things that you will wish to put into practice if you choose to have a monkey live with you.

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                                               Thank You - Mary Lynn

As we are heading soon for a new year here at SunShine MonkeyShines, I have been spending some time reflecting on the past year, so many things shifting and changing in my life every single year. Wow...!

****I am very pleased with the progress the book “Living With Monkeys” has made as the first book in the series. “The Baby Book” is continuing to sell well.

    I am so glad that I focused and was able to get it out. I wish to take a moment to thank all of you that helped me do this.

****The feedback that I am receiving about the book is that it is very helpful and that it is giving people lots of good information to think about as they are moving forward in their process of getting a monkey.

Others that already have monkeys are mostly agreeing with my thoughts and suggestions about the issues that the book talks about, such as safety, vets, and the important programming decisions. All of the comments that have been made make me so happy that I finally finished the book and was able to get it up and running on www.livingwithmonkeys.com.

****(SPECIAL INFORMATION) As the year is ending and a new one is starting soon, I am excited to move forward with many creative projects and to begin planting more seeds for my future manifestations.

    I practice “Seed Faith” which of course, is where you learn to plant the seeds first, and keep them watered and fertilized (that means keeping them in a place for growth). Then I do the last step which is just as important as choosing to plant the seed. I turn loose of the outcome of those seeds and allow God to bring the increase - if - it is in my best interest. So easy, once you know how to do it.

****The true gift in this “Seed Faith” thing is knowing how to use our mind and the special gift of our freewill, and then choosing to use our faith to let what needs to happen just happen.

    I thank all of you who choose to read these blogs every week. You are part of a seed that was held in a place for growth (in my heart) for a very long time.

****(RED LETTER THOUGHT) I am wishing you very good last few days of 2013 and also encouraging you to plan to be a person in 2014 who will practice “Seed Faith.” With God we can do some awesome things!

Thank you – for blessing us with your purchase of "Living With Monkeys" - Mary Lynn and the monks!
Don't forget to order your copy of "Living With Monkeys" - "The Baby Book." while you are visiting us here at:  www.livingwithmonkeys.com

****(SPECIAL NOTE) I just wanted to wish everyone a wonderful Christmas. There is so much to be thankful for in our lives. Just knowing what the reason for the season is gives us a special gift that keeps on giving to us every moment.

I have been very busy during this Christmas season and my monks have been so patient and easy to live with during this time. As I was reflecting about this, I remembered writing a blog in September about a party that Pixie and I attended to celebrate a friend's monkey's second birthday. In that blog I talked about how every monkey was perfect for each of their caregivers. Tonight I was thinking about how very perfect my monks are for my own life.

My monks have been wonderful during my time of sewing and working on my creative projects. This Christmas I have been busy sewing. I love to sew outfits for not only my monks but for many other people's monkeys too.

****My troupe of “Toddler” monkeys, who spend lots of time with me in my kitchen area of my house, are so contented as they watch me run the sewing machine, press seams out with the iron and all of the other things that I must do when I am sewing.

    During my burst of “creating,” it is hard to spend time with the monks and do the creating at the same time. When this happened in the past it used to pull on my guilt strings, but this last “creative time” has been totally different. As I was sewing this season, I decided to keep a closer eye on the monks throughout the entire time.


(QUESTION TIME) What has made it different for you this year, Mary Lynn?

    Even though I am sewing just a few feet away from them, I have been able to see they actually understand that I am not present for them to entertain or stimulate them. They know definitely that I am busy and focused on my project and believe it or not they are simply choosing to enjoy playing and entertaining themselves for many hours on end.

****When you are raising a baby monkey in captivity, it is very important to allow it to learn not only how to be a monkey who is using baby toys to play with, but also to let it learn it is a monkey who can explore and learn how to entertain itself

        A balance with these two things is very important to get a well adjusted, grounded monkey who can be happy with or without you and your undivided attention. As I was raising Silly Willy, I tried to spend as much time with him out of his playpen as he spent in it.


****Everyone's lifestyle is very different, so this means that every monkey is going to be programmed very differently in order, to fit into our individual lives.

****(SPECIAL NOTE) When we start comparing our monkey to other people's monkey we my even start hearing ourselves start to say, “Oh, that would never work for me!”

Get your copy of the down-loadable book called “Living With Monkeys” The Baby Book at:

www.livingwithmonkeys.com so you can learn how to choose good programming for your baby monkey.

Try to be non-judgmental of how another person's monkey lives and acts, even if it is different from the way we choose to raise our own monkey. It is normal for things to be done differently in each monkey home.

Let's get started on understanding the true concept of raising a monkey in captivity. We all wish to have a happy, well adjust monkey living in our home.

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• Merry Christmas
• from Mary Lynn and the monks of
• SunShine MonkeyShines.

(STORY TIME) Today we were off visiting a little girl for her 5th Birthday Party and there was a special energy in the air. I talk about the monkeys being great energy readers but today I was the one reading the wonderful excitement in the room as we opened up the show umbrella and started getting set-up for our presentation.
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There were 25 children gathered around our show area eager and ready to see the first star of the show so I went behind the umbrella and turned my back to the audience to get Silly Willy from his show cage. The moment that I felt his hand in mine I knew he and I were going to have some extra fun for the party.

After I had him diapered I quickly went behind the stage area where a curtain was hanging for the churches, plays and special events. The Curious George Music was playing, and the next thing I did was to let Silly Willy's head stick out from behind the curtain. I did this not just once but two times. The excitement in the room was just totally over the top after that so I then walked to the front of the stage area and introduced Silly Willy.

Right after Silly Willy had finished his educational part of the show, I turned around and sat down on one of the show stools where I put him on my lap. As I am now reflecting on what happened, I realized that I am still not sure why I did what I did. It had to be the excitement, or who knows what I was thinking at the time.

As we sat together on the stool, I reached to get Silly Willy's special treat bag and handed him the bag. Of course, he was excited to get his treat for his wonderful performance of swinging with his tail for the excited audience. Suddenly I let go of his tail and allowed him to only be tethered with his belly band that had his show lead hooked onto my bracelet.

****This was the first time ever that he had been allowed to feel this kind of freedom during one of the shows.

He went wild right in front of the audience and me too! He jumped from my lap with his mouth full of treats and jumped right onto the umbrella which is always behind us during our shows.

Suddenly the umbrella doubled down with the weight of him, and he bounced from it back to the stool next to mine. I was in shock, I guess because he did this three times before I was able to get him settled back upon my lap. The audience was wild with excitement by now when I was finally able to bring him back under control.

I got a glimpse of the umbrella in the corner of my eye and saw that his last (out of control jump) had almost flattened the SunShine MonkeyShines's umbrella.

(QUESTION TIME) What did you do next, Mary Lynn?

Well there was so much going on, you know. I was doing a birthday party show, I had the show umbrella bent over, maybe even broken, and I had a very naughty little Silly Willy on my hands. Did you know he was smiling and showing his big teeth too in his excitement. He knew in that moment he was the star of the monkey show, that's for sure!

****So, I did what any monkey caregiver would do...

I instantly got up (of course, holding his tale firmly in my hand) and walked around to fix the umbrella, which had folded one of the plastic spines into another one; and then I walked around to the front of my show area and I looked at the audience and said, “Let's settle down everyone because I have a real problem right now.”

You could have heard a pin drop instantly after I had said those words so I continued to say, “Silly Willy is in real trouble for doing that to my umbrella.” I asked the children quickly, “Do you know what I must do to him now?”

They said together, “Yeah, you must spank him!

****Everyone started laughing at that idea.

I shook my head and said, “Oh no... not that. Oh no! I must do something much more than a spanking. I must give him "The Big Look!”

The children together asked, “What is that?” I looked at the birthday girl and asked her, “Doesn't your mother ever do that to you?” The little girl's mother called to her daughter and changed her face instantly to give her own version of her very special "Big Look.” The birthday girl then looked at me and said, “Oh, yeah, you mean that look and pointed to her mother.”

Everyone's laughter was so much fun to enjoy but I still had a very big problem to handle with my very special monkey. I still had to give my very bad little Silly Willy his very much needed “BIG LOOK.”

He looked me squarely in the eyes and saw that look! You know that look that says it all. He instantly put his thumb in his mouth and became a changed little monkey, right before the eyes of all that were there. Everyone started saying, “Oh look he is so sorry. He even put his thumb in his mouth.”

****I decided in that moment to sit back down and turn loose of his tail one more time, just to see if he had learned his lesson.

He sat there just like a angel and I let him show the children what a good little monkey he had changed into being, by only giving that all important very huge “Big Look.”

(QUESTION TIME) What is the moral of this story, Mary Lynn?

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Two friends of mine were interested in finding out what the rules and regulations were to take their pet monkeys into the state of Florida for a wintertime vacation. Wow! I was shocked to learn the changes which have been made with Florida's Department of Fish and Game.

I read the newest documents on their site and still was a little unclear about the changes so I decided to call the office and of course, a polite voice from the other end of the line answered all of my questions quick an easy.

In today's world of primate ownership, it has become very important to do research ahead of time if you plan to take your monkey into other cities, states or even businesses.

(Question Time) Why Mary Lynn are you so shocked by all of the changes in the rules?

    Yes! I am totally in shock that in today's world, it is okay to take dangerous canines everywhere (you know the ones that kill children and maim thousands of people every year) but it is a crime to take monkeys (whom have never killed any adult or child) everywhere.

Twenty five years ago when I became licensed to own and exhibit monkeys, the rules and regulations were meant to protect the monkeys. Now the changes are meant to take our personal freedoms away, and single out monkey owners because we are simply monkey owners.

We as monkey owners must decide what we are going to do every moment of every day while we are visiting our families or enjoying our vacations. We must then make sure we put it on a detailed itinerary and send it to the Florida Department of Fish and Game.

****(SPECIAL NOTE) The yearly travel plans that you and your family do every year is another thing that you must remember to check-upon before you decide to become a new monkey caregiver.

    You may find that the states, cities or places you frequently visit have rules and regulations against your taking the pet monkey that you plan to get.

Go to www.livingwithmonkeys.com and order your down-loadable copy of 'The Baby Book' in the five part series of “Living With Monkey.

This book should be your first place to start your decision making process about having a monkey as a pet.

****Read this book for helpful information about living with monkeys.

****Read “The Baby Book” because it has many wonderful ideas to think about and try out with your own baby monkey.

****Read this truthful book about having a monkey live with you.

****Read this book to see why your monkey chooses to do the same negative things over and over again.

 I am very interested today in talking about this issue.

"The Baby Book" was written because of my need to share good information with as many people as I can. There are thousands of people who have monkeys living I their homes and thousands who are thinking about getting one.

When Silly Willy came into my life, it was a time of incredible change. There was not only hurt and loss in my private life but there were also many changes happening in living in our world with primates. So many rules and regulations were changing then and are still changing in our country about having monkeys as pets.

****Because of these many changes that were happening in the world of primates, it was necessary to really get clear with myself about how I would handle and raise my precious little boy monkey.

I believe in educating everyone about primates and that is how I have spent (soon to be 25 years) of my life. The book series is here to help you interested caregivers make the best possible choices for your life and the life of your monkeys, who will be living out their lives in captivity.

In the first “The Living With Monkeys” book, “The Baby Book,” we have a chapter about leads and leashes. Throughout the book I am repeatedly speaking about safety, early programming, and giving you truthful information about many things that a monkey caregiver can (and will) be confronted with.

****When a baby monkey comes to you it will be so easy to carry around with you and take many places.
    People will say so many types of things to you as you are doing this. Some good of course and some not so good. The thing that I wish most for people to see and try to understand is the emotional connection that I have with my monkeys, and for them to walk away from their knowing that it is a big responsibility to care for a monkey, in many cases for more than 40 years.

****When I am doing what I do with people and my monkeys, it is my first responsibility to be alert and interested in their safety and well-being.
    The type of leads and leashes that I use is clearly reflects my choice to feel safe and secure with them out in public. Recently I have been looking at some new things to do this with. It is so much fun to learn new things and to network with other monkey people so that I can see how they are choosing to do things differently. I believe in makings changes with these wonderful primates.

****(SPECIAL NOTE) Thanks goes out to so many of my new monkey caregiver friends. You also are the reason that I have moved forward with this new series of books. We as a group know how important our choices can be for our beloved monks.

****A waist type of tether is great during the first part of a monkeys life, but when they grow in size and emotional maturity it is again time to make choices about their safety.
    We are working on a new type of neck/waist tether that is comfortable, safe, washes and dries easily and can be removed easily from either the neck or the waist.

(Question Time) When and where can I purchase this incredible type of tether?
    Well, remember I am about educating monkey caregivers. You must first learn more about your choices concerning the waist or neck tether before you can move forward in your selection of new safety devices that we are working on.

    Please choose to order this first book in the series even if your monkey is not a baby anymore. This book is the foundation book for the entire series.

****Don't worry we will keep you posted on our new line of (tried and tested) waist and neck tethers.

    ****The monks will first be giving us their final thumbs up or thumbs down choice on them. It's just the way it has to be in my life because I live with monkeys.****

(IMPORTANT NOTE) Taking a monkey out in public or outside of your home has a big risk factor to it and comes with a very big responsibility.  ((This is a red letter issue.)

Go to: www.livingwithmonkeys and give yourself a gift this “Holiday Season” order your quick and easy down-loadable copy of “Living With Monkeys” The Baby Book. It is full of monkey stories, information, and some new ways and ideas about living with a monkey in your world.