The Crazy Rants of Samantha BurnsBeer Helps One Quit Smoking?
I wish that were true, I'd start smoking just to try to quit, lol.
But, anyhow, this is the strategy of a zoo in China to get their chimp, Xiku, to quit chain-smoking.
XIKU the chain-smoking chimpanzee has almost kicked his deadly habit thanks to the efforts of zoo keepers in China, but it has taken a beer or two to help get him through detox.I've written about cigarette smoking chimps before and I can't believe how many zoos do this to their animals.
It's just a little pointless.
I've also written about alcoholic chimps.
What the frick is the problem with some zookeepers? Get the chimp off one vice and onto another?
How is moving from lung cancer to liver failure a solution to the problem?
I still agree with Dragonlady's World that all they have to do is stop providing the problems to the animals, and they'll have no choice, but to quit.
And, if that fails, provide the chimps with animal psychology: Is Jane Goodall still around?
Lol. A$$clowns!
Comments
Back in the early 70's I worked for a company that raised chimps. We had a chimp named Tim who was one of the chimps that played cheeta in early Tarzan movies. Tim loved a Marlboro and a screwdriver or a imported beer when we had a lab party. Unfortunately for Tim he had been around humans so long he wouldn't breed so he was finally selected for a terminal experiment. Thinking about him now makes me want to have a screwdriver.
Posted by: billT | July 4, 2006 12:22 PM
Oh my - I can't believe zookeepers allow this either.
I wrote about the bear cub that was boozing in the back seat of someone's car...scary stuff to think about...drunken wild animals that aren't frat boys.
Posted by: sudiegirl | July 6, 2006 06:59 AM