Monkey Business

I have a monkey – a real monkey!!! We have had him for about a month now, he belongs to my room mate and I, his name is Charlie, he is 10 months old and he is the naughtiest creature I have ever met – but so adorable!

We built him a huge cage outside our house, but for a while he lived in our kitchen and it gave new meaning to ‘child-proofing’ because if he could pick it up he would. He loved stealing the matches, running onto the roof and then patiently chewing the carton open and dumping the contents onto the roof before throwing the empty box back down into the kitchen! And when we take something out the oven his paw would be right in there…

He loves candy, and after he realized the world was bigger than just our house he would go explore the neighbors yards and then we would have to go out there and bribe him with something sweet to get him onto our shoulder and then we could walk him back to his house… these days he stays in his cage, but he still loves having his back scratched!