A resident’s voice for the animals

After reading the Sandton Chronicle article, A voice for the monkeys, week ending 13 May, a resident who has chosen to remain anonymous, felt inspired to express her views on the abuse of the helpless primates.

Anonymous wrote, “One would hope that sanity will prevail and these helpless monkeys will be allowed to remain at a sanctuary where they can eventually recover from their ghastly ordeal and be treated in a civilised manner. Surely that would be the right thing to do? They are so like us. They only lack the power of speech.

“In suffering, animals are our equal. Only when the consequences of these awful deeds are made to be felt will there be any improvement for animals the world over.

“Why isn’t officialdom paving the way forward, one small step at a time, for those who have no voice and who are forced to endure a nightmare world against which they can do nothing?”

Anonymous quoted William Ralph Inge and wrote, “Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.”

She expressed her empathy for the primates and added that from the ‘relatively indistinct photo in the newspaper of one of these innocent victims, it is possible to determine from the body posture the mute agony of this forlorn and forsaken little being’.

“I am thankful to those who have refused to sanction the brutality against primates.”