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HEIDI By Camille Dorian [part one]
Heidi, a white-faced capuchin, likes to spend some special time alone with me in the evening before bedtime. To get away from Molly and Pip who are also out., she waits until I open the bathroom door, then jumps in from the top of the cupboard just outside. Then we're alone and she likes to sit on my lap for her special grooming session. I clean her ear canals .I check her nose and clean under each finger and toe nail. She watches carefully as I do this and is very interested in any "dirt" which might be discovered. She likes being brushed with a hairbrush on her head, back, arms, legs and tail., but not her chest or belly.
I can diaper Heidi anywhere., since she likes being diapered "free-style". That means from whatever position she is in when I approach her with a diaper. She might sit on the corner of the bed or hang patiently from the top of the bedroom door. She is so easy to diaper and helps me by holding out her legs. In the bathroom she might hang from the medicine cabinet, hold her tail up for me from the window sill, flop into the clothes basket on her back, or jump into my arms like a baby.
Heidi falls asleep in the middle of the bed, either up close beside my head or on my arm. She gets to sleep before Molly and Pip and is the first to wake up. One morning I was lying on my side with Molly sleeping behind my head and Pip sleeping on my neck. With everyone else still asleep Heidi really has nothing to do so she feels that it is in her best interests to "groom" us awake. She started with my ear and, with her index finger she outlines all of the ear canals. Sometimes this is painful, since she can accidentally scrape the skin off. I encourage her to be gentle. But noses are another matter. Heidi has developed a technique for enlarging nostrils, which allows her to have a better look inside. This comes under the heading of "minding other people's business", which Heidi likes to do. Using her index finger, she pulls on both sides of the nostril in opposite directions. it feels as though my normally small nostril has been stretched open to the size of a marble. I have a Kafka-like fantasy, imagining that this might affect my aging process and that I will have an enlarged, drooping or sagging nostril condition as a result of this practice. (Molly and Pip will probably have this also.) I expect her to groom my scalp next. Heidi has a very enjoyable rapid-motion scratch-work that she uses on both Molly and me, but this particular morning she opted to do my nails instead. She began by picking up my big hand with her two little hands. She started with my thumb. Using her index finger, she pried under the nail to clean it, then attempted to trim it with her teeth. This works with Pip and she does a beautiful job on him, but my nails are too tough. Moving on, each finger was listed and each nail cleaned consecutively, digging a little too roughly on the last one. As always, I encourage gentleness by pulling away, saying 'Ouch!' and explaining very softly that she was too rough.
Molly was next. Sometimes it looks as though Heidi is trying to dig a hole. Holding Molly's long tail with one hand, she digs energetically with the other. The more deeply Molly sleeps, the more insistently Heidi grooms. When no one stirred Heidi went to the top of the dresser for snacks. Bringing raw broccoli back to the bed, she began to eat, crunching as loudly as she could. Eventually we all got the message and woke up to join Heidi. Brad and Trouble
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HEIDI By Camille Dorian [part two]
Several times during the past summer Muffin., the cat, has caught and stunned a mouse in the yard. As she comes over to share the mouse with her kittens, Heidi takes the limp mouse away from her and climbs the tree with it. Muffin knows better than to argue with Heidi and has to wait until I can get it back for her. At first Heidi was afraid of Muffin's kittens and made the open-mouth threat face which we call the "bad ahhh mouth". When they were two weeks old they looked less rat-like and she began to show an interest in them. When they were lying with their mother she woiild lightly touch their backs and lift their bottoms to see whether they were boys or girls. Her hand r turned to the back of "Sunshine" the most often. He was the only orange kitten and she seemed transfixed by the glow of his pretty fur. She showed a motherly interest in them also and I would see the kittens lean lovingly against her. On one occasion "Cupcake", the calico kitten., leaned against Heidi's chest and they both watched all the boy kittens fighting with each other. Heidi usually has a loving relationship with Muffin, but she has gone so far as to try to beat Muffin up and chase her from the yard so that she can take her place with "the babies". When the kittens were 8 weeks old they all went to good homes but we still have Muffin and "T.C.", one of the babies. We keep T.C. inside and Heidi purrs at him and licks him until he's wet. Sometimes she refuses to go back into the monkey rooms by adamantly pulling in the other direction. This means she won't go in without T.C. As soon as I pick him up she hops back on my shoulder and is completely cooperative.
Heidi is most difficult when she's in estrus, although she can be stubborn at other times and insist on having her own way. She might prefer to go outside, or into the kitchen for a fruit juice-sweetened cookies rather than going into the monkey rooms. She will pull in the other direction and express herself vocally. If I don't go her way she will begin to scream, preferably right in my ear. She would bite anyone else at these times, but she never goes that far with me. I attribute that to the fact that I do all of her feeding and caretaking and, most of all, have slept with her ever since she was a baby. None of the three monkeys I sleep with ever turn on me and I think they feel completely bonded to me, as I do to them.
When Heidi is in estrus she becomes very fixated on having my husband's attention. She glues herself to him and wants to go with him, wherever he goes. He is actually being held hostage, because she is so insistent. If I try to pull her away from him she will.try to bite him if she can. She has had her canine teeth clipped and her other teeth filed, but her bites are still painful. I try to divert her attentions to Filo (male white-faced capuchin) and sometimes I succeed. I try to get her to spend the night with Filo when she's in estrus, and she usually does this one or two days out of her cycle. Filo values a good night's sleepy however, and he knows that Heidi is going to pester him for attention. The look on his face says, oh no, not this again! Heidi and Filo do mate, but Filo doesn't like being pressured. Heidi's behavior during the first year of her cycling was more difficult than it is now. Several times she kept my husband awake all night. Every time he went to sleep she yanked his hair as hard as she could to wake him up. Once awake, she would do a little dance for him ... standing up like a little person, she would put both hands up behind her head, puff out her chest and twirled in circles. Usually she would not let him leave the back part of the house without her. Once she finally let him go into the bathroom alone. He climbed out the window and went to sleep on the couch. This might sound crazy, but it was the only way for him to get away without being bitten. I'm so glad that she now has Filo. Brad and Trouble
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HEIDI By Camille Dorian [part three]
The other day I was drinking a large cup of ice water. Heidi still takes ice cubes out and sticks them in my mouth. You might think she is being kind, but she's trying to use my mouth as an ice crusher. She wants me to make little pieces of ice that she can take back for herself. When the ice was gone she looked as though she was trying to perch herself on the rim of the cup. I think she wanted to climb in but realized that She was too big. Instead, she pushed half of her tail down into the cold water, the pulled it up and drank the drops that fell from the tip. Now that's real ingenuity.
Heidi, my adult white-faced capuchin, is in some ways my most difficult monkey. She is her "alpha" Royal Highness and believes she is entitled to special privileges. Since the house is divided in half -- the bedroom portion being much more monkey-proof than the living/dining room are -- the monkeys are supposed to come out only by invitation. When I occasionally go from the back part of the house to the kitchen for the monkeys' bedtime snack, Heidi darts through uninvited. Since we have high beamed ceilings and tall cupboards, it is simply not possible for me to catch her, if she doesn't want to be caught. She is in control, and she knows it. Even though she is almost always wearing a three- foot leash hooked to her waist belt while she's in the house, she can control it with the curl of her tail. (Molly, spot-nosed guenon, who has a two-foot long straight tail. can just as effectively control her leash by looping it over the arch of her tail.)
Heidi has to be watched carefully when she is out, since she can open anything that is not padlocked. She looks small but can brace herself between the wall and a heavy piece of furniture, using her body to push over 100-pound floor speakers, etc. Pip is fast and sneaks out almost every time I go through the area but he is the least destructive, hardly ever opening a cabinet. He is not strong enough to open drawers or push over furniture. Last month, though,, he did stand up on the kitchen counter next to a one-gallon jug of orange juice and unscrewed and removed a tight lid. Most frequently he knocks papers off he dining room table, but when I'm ready for him to go into his cage he hops on my shoulder willingly because he doesn't want to be left out by himself. Brad and Trouble
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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 02:04:04 -0800 (PST)
From: Arnellia Katz <achip@hotmail.com>
Subject: Logfile on Chip Server
To: webape@monkeymaddness.com
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Hello,

I noticed within the logfile section of the chip.de server logs of
what appears to be your website (monkeymaddness). It is not my job to inform
you that you shouldn't be using this server, so until one of the actual
webmasters finds out I won't say much. Anyway, I did read all of the log files
and I understand I will be sticking my nose into your business. In the room
bdmonkey, I have noticed that an mmom existed along with another female chat
user named phy...Mmom appeared to be your wife, well from what I read she is
planning to cheat on you with another female named phy....Read it for yourself,
if you don't believe me...I'm sure you know where the log files are and if not
I will send another message to you with the whole log file. This is really
none of my business, but since you are using another parties server and I am a
nosey person in general I felt obligated to notify you. The next message I
send to you will be the logfile of bdmonkey although I suggest you read each of
the logfiles for your rooms.

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