EDITOR – Once more the monkey problem makes headlines.
Once more the powers-that-be and the monkey huggers exercise a knee-jerk reaction to the vermin problem. Treat the symptoms and not the disease.
‘The Monkey Helpline has noted an increase in the number of animals treated for gunshot wounds’ – don’t they get the message that the public are sick and tired of the blue vermin and the problems they create. The increase they are concerned with is directly related to the population explosion, despite the Monkey Helpline’s claim that their numbers are decreasing. I have lived in my house since the end of 1965, and in those days if I saw a monkey on my property three times a month it was a lot. I even had the opportunity to enjoy the fruit from my trees and the vegetables from my veggie patch.
Those days are long gone. We are regularly visited on a daily basis – sometimes twice a day – by a troop of anything up to 30 adults and juveniles who destroy everything in sight.
Not too long ago I heard the neighbour’s dogs going ballistic. On looking through my kitchen window, I saw a youngster climb down from the roof, onto the kitchen window sill and enter the window into the house. Not long afterwards up to seven vermin came out of the front door at a rate of knots followed by an irate housewife. All the monkeys were clutching one thing or another in their grubby little paws.
Monkey Helpline is now going to hunt the pellet gun brigade. Nothing will be achieved, the frustrated public will likely resort to ‘step two’ and put poison out for their ‘friends. The helpline and the authorities must take cognisance of the frustration in their inability to take action and curb the nuisance we the public have to endure.
GATVOL
