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Two chimps were shot dead last Thursday after a party at a Californian animal sanctuary got out of control.

St James Davis, 62, was severely mauled and his wife LaDonna, 64, lost a finger when they were attacked by a pair of chimpanzees. The party was to celebrate the 39th birthday of their former pet chimp Moe at the Animal Haven Ranch near Havilah, in California.

Davis, a former Nascar driver, had his nose ripped off, and his testicles and a foot severed, after he took Moe out of its cage so it could eat a piece of birthday cake.

While they were standing outside Moe's enclosure, Buddy and Ollie, two male chimps escaped from an adjoining cage and jumped on Mr Davis. After Buddy was shot, Ollie dragged Mr Davis down the road. Doctors said most of Mr Davis's face had been chewed off.

Workers at the refuge shot and killed the two chimps and recaptured two others that had broken out of their cages.

LaDonna Davis reports that her husband is now in a stable condition at Loma Linda University Medical Center.

The Davises had waged an unsuccessful legal fight to bring Moe, who was not involved in the attack, back to their West Covina home and visited him regularly at the sanctuary where he had been living since October. They brought the chimp from Africa years ago after a poacher killed his mother.

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I want to thank Dale B. Vitger for pointing me in the direction of this story. I sure enough had missed it.

Bogsville news gathering services can be a bit hit and miss at times.

Dale's mail

"I'm worried about Milt. He seems to be getting bogged down in the minutiae of his European travel planning, and not picking up on the major news items (see today's Daily Telegraph). This is most unlike him. It must be the cumulative effect of the damage to Mrs B's rear end, the carpet beetles, and the Bogsville dog's incontinence.
I would like to know why, when we chaps over here have been holding harmonious chimps tea parties for years (as featured on TV), the folks over there can't manage these events without gunfire and the loss of essential body parts.
If it's not too controversial, I think Mrs B. should consider a pick-up truck, with the optional gun rack, as a replacement vehicle.."

Just like to point out Dale that the chimp tea parties you watched on UK TV only involved very small chimps. As you must know we have a "big is best" mentality over here. Mrs B's rear end should be in hand shortly and we finally got a human voice on the UK ScotRail phoneline so the Easter tour looks like it's back on course.

We have been researching possible alternative personal vehicular transport systems for Mrs B. and bearing in mind that big is best we were impressed by this stretch Hummer. Plenty of room for a gun rack there. I wonder if they do it in pink?