Missouri woman fighting to keep emotional support monkeys

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CREVE COEUR, Mo. (KMOV.com) - A woman in Creve Coeur is fighting back against her neighbors to keep the three monkeys who live with her. She says they serve as emotional support, but neighbors are worried for their safety.

Texanne McBride-Teahan has trained and lived with monkeys for 20 years. She tells News 4 it wasn't until about a month after she moved to her current home in Creve Coeur that a neighbor spotted one of the monkeys outside, worried about it attacking, and called the city.

"It's a wild animal. They belong in zoos, you know, or in their natural habitat," said Jim Hentschell, who lives next door. "Everything I hear about emotional support animals, they only speak about cats and dogs."

According to the City of Creve Coeur, a monkey is considered an "inherently dangerous animal" along with alligators, lions and pythons. Those animals are not allowed to stay in residential areas, so the city cited McBride-Teahan.

During Monday's city council meeting, McBride-Teahan defended her monkeys.

"They are not dangerous animals. They are trained. They assist me. I have PTSD because of something that happened to me, a very bad thing that happened to me a long time ago," said McBride-Teahan.

https://www.kmov.com/news/creve-coeur-woman-fighting-to-keep-emotional-support-monkeys/article_804d08a2-d698-11e9-b062-6f7bcd385930.html

[msongs]

1. another emotional support scam nt

[Demovictory9]

2. just admit...you like monkeys.

[get the red out]

3. Monkeys

I am no expert, but I watched a documentary (Mon-kids I think it was called) that didn't show Monkeys as great animals at all to live with. Personally, I'll take a dog (or cat) for such a purpose any day. I don't call my dog that I've had for 9 years an emotional support animal, but she has helped me through some shit!

[Aristus]

4. Another emotional-support drama queen.

I find it impossible to believe that she couldn't derive 'emotional support' from more conventional, and certainly safer, animals.

[Cirque du So-What]

5. It is my observation...

that prolonged exposure to monkeys in a domestic setting leads to emotional degradation - not support.

j/k

I think she should be allowed to keep 'em - indoors.

[yellowcanine]

6. But may i keep my emotional support rattlesnake?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. I want an emotional support grizzly bear

[maxsolomon]

7. Good God. She's keeping Rhesus Monkeys, not Chimpanzees, or Lions.

Yeah, they COULD bite someone. So can dogs and cats. They can't KILL someone.

Creve Coeur's Animal Control code needs updating, but now it's going to be a whole thing.

Let her wave her freak flag.

[JI7]

9. fuck these people