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Having A Monkey can make you feel "Out of Control"

1/19/2014

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.

Diabetes... Will it be you that has a diabetic monkey to care for?

1/9/2014

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:

“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.”
“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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