Joey On His First Birthday
Joey Hanging Out
- Joey Playing In His Enclousure
We wanted to keep an update on Joey who just turned one year old on July, 7th 2010. Valerie Egue, has had Joey, a Brazilian Tufted Capuchin for five months in her care. She tryly loves and enjoys every minute of this amazing animal and wants to share her thoughts and experiences raising him with us.
Valerie’s Quotes: Primates present many chanllenges specially while living indoors; repetition and proper discipline goes along way I have learned. Joey is much like a child in a sense that everything he sees, he feels is righfully his and if it’s in his hands it goes directly to the mouth next. However, he will never grow out this two year old behavior. It requires much time in preparing his food which consists of various fruits, vegetables along with monkey chow and Zupreem primate diet. Changing diapers every four hours and most important play time. Although raising Joey, is not an easy task that my whole family enjoyes partaking in. He is a pleasure to be around especially after his afternoon naps. Always surprising us with new tricks or knowledge he has gained. His favorite thing to do is wrestling with his friend Scrappy (three month old kitten). We consider him a family member which we can not picture ourselves without. Raising a primate is not always as rewarding as we picture it to be. There is load of sacrificed time and effort that goes into molding your primate into a well behaved animals and even then there is set backs as they are wild animals, however, overall the knowledge and experience of raisin Joey, is something I would do all over over without thought. “My passion has always been working with capuchin monkeys, therefore, working along side with him has been nothing but a dream come true”.
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