Help me with a capuchin monkey

I don’t encourage people to keep exotic animals as pets. Having a monkey isn’t recommended for novices.

Depending on where you live, it can also be illegal. A quick check shows that 19 states currently have absolute bans on ownership, sales and importation of pet monkeys. California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont and Wyoming all ban private monkey ownership.

Some people also try to sell you cute little monkeys as scams for your money.

Even monkeys in a professional captivity environment need A LOT of roaming space, the right diet, medical care with on-hand vets, and stringent professional training if they were to be used as a meet-and-greet monkey in places like zoos.

Untrained monkeys can bite and get even more hostile as they mature. They might also already carry certain diseases with them when you purchase them.

I do not recommend that you get a pet monkey unless it’s legal and if you’ve been working with or are trained to handle them for many years.