Did She or Didn't She?

Travis's mum

Back to the story of Travis the 14-year-old chimpanzee who was shot dead by Stamford, Connecticut police after he went berserk and ripped the face off Charla Nash.

Sandra Herold, his owner or mother as the case may be, at first said she gave him Xanax that day to calm him because she could see Travis was agitated. Now she says she didn't give him medication.

As far as I'm concerned, it's not an issue of whether or not she gave him an anti-anxiety medication. There are many more questions that need to be asked and answered.

Did Travis bite someone in 1996 or didn't he?

Does Connecticut have a law requiring beasts like Travis to be registered or doesn't it? Apparently Travis was 'grandfathered' in and didn't have to be registered since he came to live with Herold before the new statute became law.

The story was that Sandra called her friend Charla to come over and help her get Travis back into the house. Wouldn't it have been more prudent to call Animal Control for help with that? Or did she want to keep the chimp under the radar?

Travis, like many humans, could be dressed in a suit and tie but underneath was still an animal.

Chimp Goes Ape

Here's the story.

Charla Nash went to visit her friends in Stamford, Connecticut who happen to own the above chimpanzee, Travis. Apparently the monkey had gotten out of the house wearing only a diaper and Ms. Nash was going to help coax him back inside. Inexplicably the 200 lb. monkey attacked Ms. Nash ripping off her face.

Travis's owner, Sandra Herold, called 911 and got a huge butcher knife with which she stabbed the enraged monkey in an attempt to get him off her friend.

Travis also attacked the police when they arrived. They shot him numerous times and he returned to his living quarters in the home where he died.

Interestingly, Travis had Lyme disease. Now this horrible disease needs publicity, but unfortunately I don't think this incident is going to do a whole lot to shake the medical community out of its lethargy although I wish it would.

Hopefully plastic surgery can return Ms. Nash to a normal life. It's too late for Travis.