When the RSPCA was summoned to investigate a situation in which a monkey was being kept as a pet in Essex, England, they were devastated to meet little baby TikTok.
TikTok was plainly too young to be living alone in a birdcage. He wasn’t getting the attention he deserved, because monkeys aren’t supposed to be kept as pets.
“Primates are intelligent, sentient and highly social animals with complex needs that simply cannot be met in a domestic environment,” Jack Taylor, an inspector with the RSPCA, said in a press release.
Luckily, the RSPCA was able to obtain an agreement to have TikTok signed into their care. After searching for the perfect forever home for him, he was soon taken in by Monkey World, a rescue where he will be able to get all the care he truly needs.
Alison Cronin, the director of Monkey World, drove over to the RSPCA to pick up TikTok and was overjoyed to bring him to his new home and meet his new family.
Clydie and Ronnie, who the rescue believed would be his adoptive parents, were introduced to TikTok. Clydie and Ronnie had also been rescued from bad situations, so they knew what TikTok had been through. TikTok yelled out to his new mother as soon as he spotted her and leapt up onto her back. Clydie was overjoyed to be able to care for her new son and began doting on him right away.
“Clydie instantly adopted him as her own, carrying, grooming and protecting little TikTok,” Monkey World wrote in a press release.
After examining him, the rescue learned that TikTok was around 5 or 6 months old and weighed only 0.2 pounds. He had desperately needed the care that only parents could provide, and now he finally has that again.
Clydie and Ronnie are so excited about their new son, TikTok, and the sweet little family of three is the cutest thing you’ll ever see.
TikTok and his new family are a great example of why monkeys should absolutely not be sold as pets, and both the RSPCA and Monkey World are working hard to try and end that practice.
“The story of Tiktok excellently demonstrates why primates should not be available to the general public and why they do not belong in people’s homes,” Taylor added. “This kid has been taken from his family and sold as a novelty pet to someone who doesn’t know him and has no chance of providing him with what he requires. It’s a circumstance that should never occur.”
Thankfully, TikTok has started a new existence in a location where he will always be protected and loved by his parents.
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