The sad tale of Travis the chimp gripped the nation when the former animal actor was shot dead by police after critically injuring a 55-year-old visitor to his Connecticut home. His devastated owner, Sandra Herold, was forced to attack Travis with a butcher knife and shovel when the 200-pound primate mauled her friend Charla Nash in her driveway on February 16, 2009.Connecticut police responding to a frantic 911 call said they set up a security cordon so medics could attend to Nash, but were forced to shoot when an agitated Travis tried to enter a patrol car occupied by one of the officers. Travis, bleeding heavily, reentered the house he shared with Herold and retreated to his living quarters, where he died.
Nash, whose face was severely damaged, required seven hours of surgery by four teams, including hand specialists, plastic surgeons and specialists in orthopedics, ophthalmology and trauma, according to reports.
A shaken Herold described her formerly peaceful domestic life with Travis, who bathed and ate with her, drank wine and even drew her pictures. The 15-year-old chimp had previously appeared in TV commercials for Coca-Cola and Old Navy, and had been a guest on the "Maury Povich Show." He was locally famous is Stamford, Conn., for riding around in trucks belonging to his owners' towing business.
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this chimp woman was warned by the government several times and ignored all of them. some of us have small tiny exotics and got together and tried to tell her that a wild animal is always going to be a wild animal. Anythig can set it off and a chimp attack is never avoidable. But Stamford people have been known for buying people off. So, now we've got 3 Stamford idiots. a man collects big cats and when they get big he turns them loose. We also have a man who's selling timber wolves. And these are all from wealthy Stamford, where there are plenty of rich people. Whats it going to take, and a human being killed? It's sick and I for think she should go to jail for the rest of her pathetic life. And she's whining over the lawsuit against her by her friends family. She begrudges the money going to someone whose life is forever changed by this incident.