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...months ago, Travis, a 200-pound, 14-year-old male chimp, broke free from his house in Stamford, Conn., and mauled a woman to near-death. Travis’s owner, Sandy Herold, sought to slay Travis with a butcher’s knife; it took several police bullets to kill...
...Herold was shocked. She recounted that Travis had been socialized: He sat at the dinner table, drank wine, operated the television remote control, and had appeared in television commercials for Old Navy and Coca Cola. Herold had bought Travis from Chimparty Pampered Primates, which prides itself as a supposedly reputable breeder...
...Herold, Sandra • inadvisability of keeping 200-pound chimp as house pet is vividly demonstrated to, though, astonishingly, given the horror of the scene, still not vividly enough to prompt statement from that things would have been done differently by if the opportunity was presented...
...couldn't have been more my son than if I gave birth to him.' SANDRA HEROLD, on her pet chimpanzee, Travis, who viciously attacked a woman before being shot dead by police...
...chimp named Travis, whose owner, Sandra Herold, 70, raised him as part of her own family, had no history of violence - aside from one incident in 2003, when he escaped and stopped traffic in Stamford for hours. But when Charla Nash, 55, a friend of Herold's, visited on Monday afternoon, Travis suddenly lashed out at her. The 14-year-old chimpanzee latched onto Nash's face and tore it apart. (See pictures of animals facing extinction...