Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on March 30, 2006 at 10:28:24 from 213.38.124.194 user ACB.
In Reply to: Re: Gibber posted by Robin on March 29, 2006 at 18:30:47:
QED!
Thank you.
A marmoset (and Gibber does look like a marmoset) would be a very annoying pet for a family leading a rather peripatetic life. It seems quite likely that after living with the Walkers for long enough to make his mark, with his paw held, he would have been sent off to the Zoo.
My Filipina mother-in-law had a monkey as a pet for several years; she found him as a baby, clinging to the fur of his mother, who had been killed by a car, and brought him up with milk from a pen filler. He was called Chita, and lived in the guava tree in the garden. He was certainly not allowed in the house! By happy coincidence, I read SD to Alex whilst we were staying with the outlaws, so Gibber was very real for him - his cousin's racing pigeons came in handy for PP also!
I recall my father, a zoologist, pointing out that tree living animals can never be "housetrained", which would be a sufficient reason for a one way trip to the Zoo, I fancy!