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Jeanne who has a great idea and thinks it would be fun to own a couple chimps. i have my degree and i spent 12 years as an animal trainer. i understand the will to do it, but if you want to do something like this, you really have to do it in a professional manner and take care of the animals in a way that, you know, you can manage their whole lives, you can manage they re going to be healthily taken care of. like she says, they get very expensive. jeanne, you knew your chimps were related to travis. when that horrible incident went down, did it give you any second thoughts at all about keeping these chimps? no. and i wanted to bring you back to the gentleman that was just talking. first of all, being a trainer and taking having a bunch of education is a lot different than 24/7 one-on-one. my chimps are not an entertainment, i don t use them for commercials, they re not ....
Who owns two chimpanzees and michelle golland a clinical psychologist. michael, your sister made, unfortunate, international headlines when she was mauled by a 200-pound chimp. and then she was courageous enough to go on oprah and talk about it and show the damage. what did she tell you about that day? she doesn t remember that day. she was totally out of her mind. she was in a coma two months, and when she came out, it took about three or four months for her brain to get normalized. alright, well, michael, i ll prepare you. we re going to listen now to that horrific 911 call that was made by travis owner, sandra harold. take a listen. 911, where is your emergency? send the police! no problem. the chimps killed killed my friend! who is killing your friend? ....
yeah, thank you for thank you for being with us, jeanne and yes? i was just going to say, i would like to invite other chimp owners to talk to me, because i do understand what it is like to admit that we shouldn t be doing what we re doing and we need to put them where they belong worth chimpanzees. i would love to help them out. it s been hard for me. i love them. but they need to be with chimps. and like i said, i m not going to make them go backwards, either, and put them in a home that s less than what they have. i m more than happy to put them where they belong in something that s better than what i have now. is it the animal s fault or is it the owner s when something goes wrong? the brother of the woman who was mauled by travis the chimp is next. he is here now. stick around. ....
Jeanne risotto joins us. she owns two chimpanzees. they are related to travis. you might remember the 200-pound chimp that tore the face of charla nash who also lost her hands in the attack. jeanne, welcome. we see you in the cage with the chimps. what is the appeal? why does this make sense to you to own these wild animals and live with them? well, it doesn t make sense anymore, but it did when i first got them. how long have you had them? eight years. it will be eight years april. eight years, and the initial idea was what? they were cute and they were small? you know, it s like anything. i was in a good position financially, and i could afford to get them, and i got paid 50,000 for connor, and a couple ....