Animal control officers were called to a Michigan home where a diaper-wearing spider monkey appeared on the porch and attempted to get into the house. Photo by Bienvenido Velasco/EPA
March 27 (UPI) — Animal control officers were called to a Michigan home where a diaper-wearing monkey appeared on the porch and attempted to get into the house.
A recording of a dispatcher contacting Saginaw County Animal Care & Control confirmed a 911 call came in about 1 p.m. Wednesday from a St. Charles resident.
“Caller has a monkey wearing a diaper that’s on their porch trying to get inside their house,” the dispatcher says in the recording. “I guess it belongs to their new neighbors.”
Officers arrived to find the female spider monkey, named Brazil, had already been returned to its home next door.
SCACC Director Rachel Horton said officers made contact with the owner and observed Brazil inside the house. She said the monkey appeared healthy, active and well cared-for.
Authorities confirmed Brazil’s owner was the same woman who brought a squirrel money into the Bay County Court Facility in 2017. The monkey was inside the woman’s purse when she put it through the X-ray scanner.
Michigan does not have any laws prohibiting monkeys as pets. St. Charles does not have any local ordinances limiting primate ownership.