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Monkey Helpers for the Disabled

http://www.monkeyhelpers.org/

Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers for the Disabled is a national nonprofit serving quadriplegic and other people with severe spinal cord injuries or mobility-impairments by providing highly trained monkeys to assist with daily activities.

We raise and train these monkeys to act as live-in companions who, over the course of 20-30 years, will provide the gifts of independence, companionship, dignity and hope to the people they help.

Helping Hands also educates thousands of young people annually through the Spinal Cord Injury Prevention Program (SCIPP). SCIPP teaches preventive measures for safety awareness, heightens sensitivity to the challenges of being disabled, and promotes understanding of the human-animal bond.

Through the generous support of donors and volunteers - just like you - our monkeys are placed at no cost with disabled people and their families.

What a wonderful thing this is cz. I would Love to have a Monkey, I mean right NOW. I have Epilepsy and I am wondering how the monkey would fare during a "Spell"??? Do they Sense that something is about to happen like some dogs have been reported to??

What kinds of monkeys??? Are there any pictures besides the ones on the link you just gave?? Do you yourself Personally work with the monkeys?? Are they potty trained or do you have to put diapers on them??? Do they ask for days off?? :winky: I just Love animals. I had a friend once who had a Kapoochin, Capuchan { Sp? }. Cute little thing he was too but he pooed everywhere. I can see that havbing a bath everyday is probably a good idea. I have no problem with having a hairy, little fella running around the house. :D Do they like to be brushed and fussed over?? They probably would eat much like I and my iguanas do, aye?? Lots of fruits and veggies?? I don't think I have ever heard of monkeys eating meat, only one species of monkey that I can recall anyway. They hunt and eat each other. :o

Just WONDERFUL cz. http://www.sheknows.com/graphics/emoticons/yeah2.gif This song kept going through my head while watching:

~ The Sweetest Thing ~
~ Click Here ~

http://www.heathersanimations.com/ch...hildren003.gif

My love she throws me like a rubber ball
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing
She wont catch me or break my fall
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing
Babys got blue skies up ahead

http://www.heathersanimations.com/weather/sunnys.gif

But in this I'm a rain cloud
You know she likes a dry kind of love
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing

http://www.heathersanimations.com/children/a535.gif

I'm losing you
Hey hey hey, I'm losing you yeah
Ain't love the sweetest thing

http://www.heathersanimations.com/children/a272.gif

I wanted to run but she made me crawl
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing
Eternal fire, she turned me to straw
Oh oh, the sweetest thing
You know I got black eyes

http://www.heathersanimations.com/ey...kling_eyes.gif

But they burn so brightly for her
Mine is a blind kind of love
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing

I'm losing you
Oh oh oh, I'm losing you yeah
Aint love the sweetest thing
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing
Oh oh, yeah

http://www.heathersanimations.com/children/Ball.gif

Blue-eyed boy and this brown-eyed girl
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing
You can sew it up but you still see the tear
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing
Baby's got blue skies up ahead
And in this I'm a rain cloud

http://www.heathersanimations.com/weather/wthr17.gif

You know we got a stormy kind of love
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing
Oh oh, the sweetest thing
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing
Oh oh oh, the sweetest thing

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OOPS, looks like the Midi isn't working. I will see if I can find another one. The Midi is what you get when you click where it says Click Here but you probably KNOW the song. :hug:

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Originally Posted by clouds z (Post 188624)

I posted about this in the MS Forum. It was a great story on the Today show. They work with disability groups such as the Semper Fi orgranization who are right now working with soldiers returning from Iran and Afghanistan. It's a very worthy cause.

Each monkey costs $35,000 to train and place and it doesn't cost the recipient one dime! It was truly a fascinating story!

I'd Love to be a helper to a disabled monkey. :D;) I just Love them SO much. Seriously. I have been seriously considering getting a monkey in the near future.

clouds...you know when you see a monkey, you think of me. :D

:hug::hug::hug:

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Originally Posted by Curious (Post 188915)

clouds...you know when you see a monkey, you think of me. :D

:hug::hug::hug:

Hahahahahaha! Me too. :D:p http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/im...ine=1198892710 I SEE you!!!

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Originally Posted by Curious (Post 188915)

clouds...you know when you see a monkey, you think of me. :D

:hug::hug::hug:

yes

it seems there is a real life curious George in these monkees
what i saw on tv

the monkees put food in the microwave

adjust a straw to drink with and all sorts of stuff:eek:

what a wonderful idea!

I bet the added bonus of an animal friendship helps also.

I do love those monkeys!