IS IT OK TO SPANK YOUR MONKEY if he acts up?

Question

I mean, I love my monkey but he is always naughty. When he is naughty I spank him and he calms down. I just don't know if spanking him is the awnser.

Answer 1

Sure, it might be better if you'd get someone else to do it every once in awhile. 2D

Answer 2

yeah, its normal, everybody does it. I do it daily. its okay to spank the monkey every once in a while, let the stresses of the day drip off.

Answer 3

LOL I just HAD to laugh when I saw this question!!!! : )

Well anyways I think You should spank him. It works with us so why shouldn't it work on monkeys??

Answer 4

Eh, some people spank dogs, some spank their kids, I'm pretty sure you can spank your monkey if you want

Answer 5

Your monkey is not "naughty". He is a wild animal and is behaving as such. The problem is that you expect a wild animal to behave like a pet.

My response to "where can I get a pet monkey" posts...

Monkeys do not make good pets. There is simply no way to care for them thoroughly or safely in one's home. One of their most basic needs is inclusion in a proper social group of their own species, so the fact that you want "a" monkey is a red flag. (If you're now thinking of having several monkeys, forget it, they'll put you in the hospital in no time.)

Aside from the harm this would do to the monkey and to yourself, think of what it takes to bring one monkey to the USA for the exotic pet trade. The answer is the deaths of countless other monkeys. Primate social groups are so tightly knit that they will defend the babies to their deaths, so those who collect baby monkeys to be sold as pets must first kill all adult members of the troop. Even after that is done, only a small fraction of the babies captured survive the transport. By purchasing a pet monkey, you would be supporting this business and ensuring its continuation.

I am a professional primate keeper at a zoo. (Don't get me started about all the private monkey owners who try to dump their animals on us...) One of our gibbons was a victim of this practice. She was kidnapped from the wild as an infant, and her fingers cut off to separate her from her dead mother, to whom she'd been clinging. She then lived as a pet for the first three years of her life, after which her owner had to get rid of her because she had grown too strong, intelligent, and wild to keep. She's lived at my zoo ever since. Having been raised by a human, she was never able to learn how to survive among others of her species, so she must be housed alone. My co-workers and I go to great lengths to provide her with the highest quality of life possible. It is a heartbreaking situation, and it exists because of people who purchase primates as pets.

Also worth noting is that, of the hundreds of employees at my zoo, there are only two groups whose job is deemed dangerous enough that they must carry pepper spray on their persons. One is the large carnivore keepers. The other is the primate keepers, and that includes *all* primates, from tamarins and lemurs to great apes.

Answer 6

NO! Don't do this there are other ways! besides don't ever think that a moneky is ANYTHING like a human, nautiness is often play!
If you can't think of anything else to do such as pushing it around or ignoring it then you can hit it BUT it shouldn't be an atual slap, it should be more like somthing you'd give you're friends in an "alright?" Sort of tap, nothing painful!

Answer 7

I think it is fine. If it works for kids, it will probably work for a naughty monkey.

Answer 8

Well Of Course Masterbation is a natural thing