What the f***??
Travis, a two hundred pound simian who starred in several television commercials, enjoyed a life where he ate filet mignon, lobster tails, ice cream and even drank wine out of a glass. He had developed human traits–he dressed himself, bathed himself, brushed his own teeth and even used a human toilet.
He was the companion to Sandra Herold– widow in Connecticut who had raised him for the last fourteen years.
On Monday, though, it all went horrifically wrong when Travis savagely mauled Charla Nash–a friend of Herold’s–and he literally ate her face in an attack that lasted for twelve minutes.
That’s not what made me say “What the f***?”
According to the New York Post, Travis allegedly was more than just Sandra Herold’s pet. Allegedly.
She fed him filet mignon and lobster tails. They shared cozy glasses of wine. They bathed and slept together. He tenderly brushed her hair. She gave him gifts and sweet kisses. He drew her pictures.
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Travis became both a surrogate child and spouse, following the deaths of her daughter in a car accident several years ago and her husband five years ago, friends and psychologists said.
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“I’m, like, hollow now,” she told CBS. “He slept with me every night. He combed my hair. Everything in the house is for him.”
Herold would frequently tell those who questioned her devotion to Travis that they simply did not understand.
“Until you’ve…eaten with a chimp and bathed with a chimp, you don’t know a chimp,” she said.
Unfortunately, Herold might not have truly known the chimp, either–or so it seems.
WTF?
What the hell makes someone wake up in the morning and think this is a good idea? Sure, chimps may seem cuddly and they may even be cute when they do human-like things, but we’re talking about an ANIMAL, for cryin’ out loud!
At the end of the day, Travis was a chimp–an animal that belongs in the wild and not as an alleged substitute for a child or husband. Regardless of what traits a chimpanzee might learn, it is still a chimpanzee and a slave to its own nature.
They’re. NOT. Humans!
If the New York Post’s story is accurate, then this relationship was just creepy–and now it’s forever altered the life of Ms. Herold’s friend. Not just from the physical scars–losing her eyes, nose and jaw–but also the emotional and mental trauma of being attacked by a wild animal and having your face eaten off.
If you can stomach listening to the audio from Herold’s 911 call during the attack, you can find it
here.
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