{"id":12493,"date":"2013-11-25T17:01:01","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T17:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12493"},"modified":"2013-11-25T17:03:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T17:03:19","slug":"a-primate-is-not-your-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/11\/a-primate-is-not-your-mate\/","title":{"rendered":"A Primate is not your mate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its devastatingly arrogant<br \/>\nwhat some of us might do<br \/>\nwhich in a nutshell actually<br \/>\nis worse than any zoo<br \/>\nall wild animals everywhere<br \/>\nwere created to be<br \/>\nwild<br \/>\nwhere they were put<br \/>\nis where they ought to be<br \/>\nthat is amongst their families<br \/>\nin the environment they need<br \/>\nthat is where they are happy<br \/>\nand most likely to succeed<\/p>\n<p>taking them from that habitat<br \/>\nand bringing them  away<br \/>\nkeeping them like pets<br \/>\ninside your home<br \/>\nwanting to stay<br \/>\naround them<br \/>\nisn&#8217;t kindness<br \/>\nits ignorance from you<br \/>\nits most unkind to do this<br \/>\nit shows your clueless too<\/p>\n<p>they will miss their families<br \/>\nthey will miss their place<br \/>\nthey will miss their environment<br \/>\nwhere life went at a pace<br \/>\nthey will miss their freedom<br \/>\nto do what they would do<br \/>\nespecially if they are holed up in some<br \/>\ncage looking at you<\/p>\n<p>they eat what they were born to eat<br \/>\nthey hunt, they learn their ways<br \/>\nare spent building their repertoire<br \/>\nfor experience always pays<br \/>\nand taking them away from where they were born<br \/>\nis always wrong<br \/>\nand they die a little everyday<br \/>\nfor they just don&#8217;t belong<\/p>\n<p>inevitably there is conflict too<br \/>\nthey are fed with the wrong thing<br \/>\nperhaps they get neglected<br \/>\nand its begins to bring<br \/>\nmental trauma upon them<br \/>\nremember they are wild<br \/>\nyour home might be extremely nice<br \/>\nbut they are the first wild child<\/p>\n<p>they need the trees to play in<br \/>\nthey need the litter floor<br \/>\nthey need to drink fresh water<br \/>\nnot bottled from the store<br \/>\nthey need whatever they need<br \/>\nnot what you deem to give<br \/>\nthe wild ones are the wild ones<br \/>\nand that is how they live<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its devastatingly arrogant what some of us might do which in a nutshell actually is worse than any zoo all wild animals everywhere were created to be wild where they were put is where they ought to be that is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/11\/a-primate-is-not-your-mate\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monkeys-and-primates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12495,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12493\/revisions\/12495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}