Reply To: I bought a monkey
The lady in the office next to mine actually had a pet monkey for a short time when she was a kid. Her dad apparently had uh… impulse-control issues at times, and one day brought home a monkey in a cage (this was a long time ago. not sure where you’d even get a monkey nowadays). Best of all, he told the kids to keep it a secret from the mom because she wouldn’t approve (duh). Oddly enough, the kids did keep it secret for a couple of weeks, which was heroic on their part given how giddy they were to have a pet monkey to play with. But it was not meant to last, because one day they let it out of the cage and it got out of the spare room they were keeping it in and it ran into the living room and perched on the top of a bookshelf screeching at the top of its lungs. Mom was not amused, however she was also something of a passive-aggressive enabler from what I can tell, and she didn’t immediately demand the monkey be returned, which would of course be the appropriate response to the situation.
The monkey didn’t last long at their house though. It mostly just screeched and tried to hide from everyone and they eventually got rid of it (no idea where to).
They also had a pony in their suburban backyard for a while, though not concurrently with the monkey. True story.