Attack monkey

Apparently Phyllis Gates has a dangerous money. So dangerous, in fact, that more than 50 of her neighbors have "signed a petition asking the Sikeston City Council to look into monkey attacks on their street." TV Station KFVS in Sikeston has the story.

Ms. Gates defends her monkey. "He is usually pretty calm," she said. "People make him nervous."

Neighbors disagree.

"'She cannot control her monkey,' Peggy Bearden said. 'It attacked my grandson. Part of the material is gone in his shirt.' Bearden lives across the street from Gates. Next door, Gayla Schearf says Alex attacked her. 'They came over to my yard, and the monkey got away. He attacked me after that,' Schearf said."

I say forget the Sikeston City Council. This is a job for the professionals.

In other Missouri animal news, an angry customer of a dog breeder in St. Peters became angry when the breeder would not allow her to return her dead puppy. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, things escalated and the customer attacked the breeder, hitting her in the head repeatedly with the dead Chihuahua.

"As the woman drove away, she waved the dead puppy out of the car’s sunroof and yelled threats at the breeder, police said."