The Green Quote: Morgan Fairchild Mourns Travis The Chimp

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by Michael Parrish DuDell February 19, 2009
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Chimpanzee Attack“The sweetest little thing… He would play around with you. He was like a little kid on the set. It is a shame. It is a sin that this animal had to be destroyed.”

- Morgan Fairchild reflecting on her time shooting an Old Navy commercial with Travis the chimpanzee. Travis was recently shot dead after attacking his owner. This is a perfect example of why wild animals should NOT be used in entertainment and certainty not kept as pets. Check out what HSUS president Wayne Pacelle has to say about this unfortunate incident over at his blog.


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  • Sarah

    moUrns

    poor travis.

  • Mo

    I adore you, ecorazzi, but you should spellcheck more often :)

    This whole chimp thing has me angry; I have only heard limited information about this incident, but it seems like it was yet another animal attack that could have been avoided if humans just had freaking brains.

  • http://RawfoodsRetreat.com Erin Raw foods retreat

    Honestly I hope the woman is charged. Criminally. Yes I said it. Because otherwise people are just going to continue to have exotics like this and accidents will happen. They will not learn until someone like her is CHARGED. It’s the only way.

    And she should have gotten rid of him after the incident back in 2003 where he went wild (which is natural- he’s a wild beast!)

    I’m not too keen (actually down right disgusted) she put her “son” in movies and commercials to make an extra buck.

    And then call her “friend” over when Travis went ape shit and now her friend might die and has no face anymore.

    Well I don’t know how his owner shows her face. I repeat put her in jail and people will think twice before buying Chimps and tigers to live at home.

    Erin

  • VeggieTart

    Mo, I don’t know if spellcheck would have gotten this, as it doesn’t know when you use the wrong spelling (they’re/their/there, for instance, or two/too/to).

  • hil

    From what I have read it was perfectly legal for her to own the chimp. In Conn. all that is required is a permit that she had obtained legally. I agree that having wild animals as a pet is just a bad idea all around! The domesticated animals that are commonly kept as pets like dogs and cats have been around people for hundreds and hundreds of years, and even they can hurt their owners sometimes, but not like a chimp can.

  • parrish

    Good call, everyone! I was tired. It was the first post of the day. Blah, blah, blah! Got it!!!

  • http://RawfoodsRetreat.com Erin Raw foods retreat

    Yes Hil except the commish decided to overlook the fact Travis was over 3x the allowed weight. See here in a local conn. article

    http://thestamfordtimes.com/story/465213

    She was grandfathered in. The states need to change the law so that no exotic pets can be owned. It’s safer that way for the people AND the pets.

    I’m a Libertarian and believe in freedom but NOT when it hurts someone else. Make marijuana legal and many of the other silly illegal things that aren’t killing people but owning tigers and primates (and monkeys?) ridiculous!

    E

  • hil

    Thanks for the link to the local paper article Erin, I agree make marijuana legal and keep the chimps in their natural habitat! This story is just a jumble of avoidable mistakes, it seems the more I read about it the more it amazes me that so many people allowed for this to happen! She was given a permit even though the chimp was too large, he had lyme disease and she continued to keep him in her home knowing the effects of that disease on the nervous system. Giving him xanax laced tea and calling her friend to help her instead of someone that has experience with animals. Even the level that she personifies him was dangerous! Yes chimps share about 90-99% of our genome….but there are essential differences on that last percent that cannot be over looked! Wow what a clusterfuck this whole story is!

  • http://thevegetarianblog.today.com Antonio

    Erin I agree with you. The ‘owner’ of the chimp needs to be charged. It’s the only sensible outcome, in justice to the ape and to the now faceless victim.

  • steph

    This whole situation just pissed me off. It was reported somewhere that she had give him sleeping pills and tea to calm him down that night cause he wanted to go out.

    yeah…i would TOTALLY give my “child” some freaking sleeping pills when they get rambunctious…and a lot of good it did this poor guy in the end anyway.

    I WISH they would charge her with something…maybe at least laws will get changed to prevent this from happening again.

  • http://www.easyvegan.info kelly g.

    “Destroyed”? Try “killed,” “murdered,” etc. You “destroy” property, not a life.

    (And yes, I realize that dictionary.com lists “to kill” as one definition for “destroy,” but when’s the last time you heard the phrase “destroy” applied to the killing of a human?)

  • http://yahoo Carrie

    I think this is awful. The owner gave him a Xanax (tranquilizer) earlier that day to calm him down. What if it had a reaction to him (since he’s a chimp) and he reacted violently? Wouldn’t it be the owner’s fault for her friend getting mauled?

  • http://yahoo Carrie

    I think this is awful. The owner gave Travis a Xanax earlier that day for his anxiety behavior. How does she know how he’s going to react? It was definitely her fault for everything that happened to her friend. She should never have a wild animal as a pet, even if she thought she could trust him. He was still wild. Then she stabbed him before the police shot him. It could have all been avoidable if she would have had more sense than she did.

  • YourMonkeyMask

    Hey Morgan, It is NOT a SIN to blast a nastyass shiteating drugcrazed face-ripping ape. Go ahead…..check your Bible……it aint in there.Travis got exactly what he deserved, a belly full of lead. Good riddence to bad chimps!

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