Letter published and KMOX radio interview in St. Louis

A bizarre story surfaced recently of a Creve Coeur, Missouri woman who was asking the town for an exemption to their rule prohibiting privately owned monkeys, because she claimed that her three monkeys of various species were "emotional support animals."

With a clear understanding of the lack of regulation of the use of monkeys as service animals, I felt compelled to reply. My Letter to the Editor was published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on September 22nd.

On September 23rd, that letter lead to an on-air interview with Kevin Killeen, a journalist at St. Louis AM radio station KMOX. I don't have a link to provide to that, but I was pleased to share the facts about the difficulties and cruelties inherent in keeping monkeys in human homes, and the fallacies of the "emotional support" and service animal industries.