(IN) Monkey stays put in a bungalow for 4 days

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Dear All,

 

Please check out Today's Mumbai Mirror Page 6, Sakal (Marathi) Page 8 &

Hindustan Times for our Monkey rescue story. Also IBN Lokmat, Sahara News & ND

TV will telecast the rescue throughout day on their Metro Digest. Very soon we

will post the link of You Tube video on our site as well as Orkut blogs.

 

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Nilesh Bhanage

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" Hand that help is more holier than lips that pray! "

 

 

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Monkey stays put in a bungalow for 4 days

Fire brigade, forest dept and veterinary doctor are unable to catch it after it

enters a Dombivli home

Nilesh Nikade

The Mistry family on Sunday afternoon had an unwanted guest at their Dombivli

home. A huge male monkey entered the bungalow unnoticed and when it refused to

leave, the family called the fire brigade, a veterinary doctor and forest

officials from Kalyan, Thane and Borivli, but nothing helped. Finally, an animal

activist from Dombivli came to their rescue and caught the monkey using a net on

Wednesday.

 

Avinash Mistry, a family member said, " The monkey was aggressive and tried to

hurt our children. We called the fire brigade, but they had no equipment to

catch it. "

 

The fire brigade officers then called the Kalyan Forest Department, but they too

could not help. G Borse, a Forest Guard said, " Whenever we went near it, it

would lash out or try to bite. "

By Monday night, the Mestry family members managed to trap the monkey in their

bedroom. On Tuesday, the forest officials from Thane were called, but they could

not do much. The incident revealed the forest office's inability to deal with

such incidents.

 

Meanwhile, the women in the family had begun to feed the monkey, and it too

accepted their presence. Chaya, a family member, said, " I used to calm it

whenever it got restless. It must have been in trauma, as it was not among its

companions. "

 

On Wednesday morning, a veterinarian Dr D B Sawant from the Animal Husbandry

Board was called to inject the monkey with anaesthesia. But the monkey snatched

it away from Sawant.

 

Nilesh Bhanage, head of the Plant and Animal Welfare Society then decided to use

the catcher that is used to catch stray dogs. " We asked the ladies to distract

the monkey. If we would have failed, it would have become impossible to catch it

again. It saw my volunteer and in a bid to escape, walked right into the net. "

 

The Mistrys had mixed feelings. They were relieved, but also felt bad for the

monkey, which had almost become a part of their family. " For four days he ate

and slept with us. The only thought in our minds was to keep a watch on him, "

said Nandkumar Mistry, a family member. The monkey was taken to the Thane SPCA

for a medical check-up.