Oh my! I've never had a monkey. But when I was little, before our own house was built, we lived in a tiny house atop a hill in a very small town.There was no such thing as pre-school or kindergarten. Women didn't work except at home, so they'd come over for tea in their pillbox hats and sit cramped on the sofa. I was around 4 or so. The kitten would jump up on the sofa arm and one of the women would instinctively reach over and start petting it while still sipping tea and chatting. Then there would be sideways glance, a sudden shriek, and all those ladies would run out of the house. It was a pet skunk.