Wild Animals as Pets? Why That's just Monkey Business!

A Stamford woman was hospitalized over the weekend after being attacked by a 200-pound pet chimpanzee named Travis.



This alarming incident raises the time old question about whether wild animals should be kept as house pets?

Jeff Corwin, host and executive producer of Corwin's Quest and The Jeff Corwin Experience , weighs in on the subject during an interview on CNN's American Morning.

Up in Smoke...

By Pat Rossiter, YOUTH Forum Program Manager & Olympic Hopeful

So the Golden Boy (literally) of the last year’s Olympics, Michael Phelps, has shown just how human this superman is.

Caught in the act, last week a British tabloid posted pictures of Phelps in full embrace with a “bong,” I believe the kids are calling it these days.

So what happens when the poster boy for all that is great in the USA gets caught in the act of smoking a bowl?

Well, there is the requisite regret and condemnation. I can only imagine there were even some righteous 10-year-old swimmers burning their Michael Phelps Licensed Speedos while crying bitter tears of rejection. (Don’t sniff the smoke kiddies!)

Maybe I’m getting old in my soft-age, but I’m left with this sinking feeling that, maybe the problem isn’t that Mr. Phelps smoked some weed but rather that anybody should get upset about it.

I certainly know it is illegal but, why (some would argue racism), and more importantly what are the real results of that?

Check out John V. Santore’s post on Huffington.

It's clear there are some issues associated with marijuana, I am not at all sure putting minority kids in jail OR ruining the careers of white kids is going to solve any of the problems.