The little monkey wearing a shearling coat
that showed up at a Toronto IKEA last week is now a case for the
courts. Toronto Animal Services lodged the monkey named Darwin at the
Story Brook Farm Primate Sanctuary. Yasmin Nakhuda, who owns the monkey,
wants him back.
…defendant Nakhuda, a real estate
attorney by profession, filed a claim Thursday that states the
authorities had no right to take the monkey. “The officer’s refusal to
return Darwin was unlawful because the Code does not authorize the
officer to keep an animal other than dogs and cats,” it reads. “The only
penalty under the Code is a fine. Animal Services therefore unlawfully
detained Darwin.”
The motion also states that, if Darwin cannot
be returned, Nakhuda should be allowed “reasonable access on a schedule
to be fixed by this court.”
Meanwhile, Story Book Farm
seems to have undertaken a PR campaign in its efforts to keep Darwin.
Read all about it at Death and Taxes, in a post that includes its own
soundtrack.
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