OH. MY. GOD. This has to have been one of the weirdest and worrying documentaries I have ever seen. In many ways, it would be the easiest thing to just laugh at the people who were filmed for this programme because, bluntly put, most of them are screaming loons, but there’s an infinitely darker side to their stories which, in the main, isn’t amusing at all.

This Channel 4 film followed three couples who have “monkey babies” – primarily Capuchins – but not as pets; they’re substitutes for children. That’s not only sad, it’s shocking and what these people are putting their primate ‘babies’ through in order to satisfy their own sad need to be needed is quite horrifying.

They’re selfishly denying these monkeys the right to live as monkeys, choosing instead to dress them up, make them wear nappies and have diets that consist of the foods they’d spoil a human child with. It was rather sickening viewing to be honest. Read more & comment »