I was there in July at the old village and I saw the poor monkey at Sylvia's nearly every day.I spoke to the Geordie Lady (I use the word Lady very loosely-no Lady would treat an animal like that) and told her it was cruel, she told me she had rescued it from Istanbul and it would have been killed and that it reguarly went to the shop across the road (to get a banana?? yea right!!) I mentioned it to the apt owner and he said it was common knowledge she had bought it from another bar, also everyone I spoke to said they had never seen it out of the cage When she next invited me to spend money in her restaurant (I declined!) I told her what I had learned and she got angry and said I did not know about other countries. I told her about when I lived in Kenya and monkeys like this were roaming free in
hotel grounds,bush etc and they looked happy.My heart went out to that poor monkey and it looked so sad. I have contacted various people since I got home but no-one knew what could be done so I am happy I saw this and if enough people act and contact monkeyworld and boycott Sylvia's (it may not be there now but it will have been moved or sold) then people there may get the message and understand that the majority of us Brit's will not stand for cruelty of this nature and at the same time do something for this beautiful little monkey.
