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Lacy, a seven year old Capuchin monkey during a training session. During her long life (30 – 40 years) as a Helping Hands monkey she will have spent significant amounts of time living in volunteer foster homes as a happy, healthy, monkey-business member of the family. We appreciate and applaud these
Special Heroes for their unselfish dedication to bettering the lives of disabled individuals.
Caring for a capuchin monkey is similar to caring for a human child with super-human strength AND a tail, a very hairy child with thumbs on their feet, and requires nearly as much time. Foster parents bathe and diaper their monkeys so the monkey is a part of the family's activities.
A foster family's responsibility involves loving and caring for a monkey in their home. Caring for a monkey is fun and rewarding, but it is not easy. Two-out-of-three is still very time consuming, entails some expense, and requires a considerable amount of patience.
The Hardest Part: Foster parents must be willing to return the monkey when Helping Hands determines necessary. This can be very difficult. Foster families invest time, energy, and love in caring for their foster monkey. The primary comfort for foster parents is the knowledge that the monkey will eventually go to a disabled person who will live out his or her life with more freedom, independence, and companionship because of this special friend. It is the gift of part of one's self.
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