![]() ![]() We have been in business for over a decade now, and have become experts in handling whatever kind of wildlife situation you have. We treat you with the greatest of respect, and work hard to ensure that your pest control needs are taken care of promptly and efficiently. We are a family run business that treats our customers like they are part of our family. We are the #1 wildlife removal service in the area for the last three years for good reason. ![]() So if you’re walking through the south Texas brush and hear a sound, or maybe catch a glimpse of a Japanese Snow Monkey - consider yourself lucky.Ĭlick here to see Chester Moore's blog about Snow Monkeys.We are Dallas Animal Attic, a full service wildlife removal company servicing Highland Park, Even warthogs from Sub-Saharan Africa that escaped exotic game ranches are thriving in some areas of Texas. Animals such as Axis deer and Nilgai antelopes, which are both from India. But, Chester Moore said there are all kinds of other non-native wild animals that have done well in Texas, without much help. Ranchers who’ve fed and watered the snow monkeys may have helped them survive. "You can go there and see 15 to 40 at a time." It's like they're very secretive about the fact that they have them there and they got a bunch of them and they're pretty cool, you know," said Bryant. In other words keep out food and water for them so they’ll hang around. That's right, he says some people harbor the monkeys. "But most of the places for my knowledge that have them kind of harbor them." "I've definitely caught 'em on game cameras, I've definitely ridden around some ranches around Dilley, Cotulla, even as far as Tilden and seen ‘em here and there," Bryant said. Wildlife consultant Marshall Bryant has seen them, too. He said hunters have sent him photos of monkeys within the last three years. They're all over the Dilley area," said Chester Moore. "We were east of Pearsall just going down the road and there were some people stopped and they were lookin And so we stopped to and it was a momma monkey and a baby up a mesquite tree," said Garrison Some time later, they had another sighting. "And there was a windmill there on the side road. And look up in front and I saw this thing go across the road," Garrison recalled. "Stopped in at Ruby's Lounge, got a six pack of beer. His first monkey sighting was near Los Angeles, Texas in the mid 1980s while he was driving with his friend. They're going to know we're crazy," said rancher Glen Garrison. We tell 'em we saw a monkey in South Texas. "We can't tell anybody we saw monkeys that everybody thinks were crazy. Are there still Japanese snow monkeys roaming wild in South Texas? And his monkeys, well, most of them, were rounded up and put in a sanctuary near Dilley.īut, here’s the question. ![]() So much so, they began to reproduce and became a nuisance to nearby ranchers. Many of the monkeys died from the South Texas heat, not to mention predators such as coyotes and rattlesnakes. The plan to sell the monkeys didn’t work out. About 150 monkeys were transported to his ranch near Encinal. In fact he planned on reselling some of the primates to U.S. The locals wanted them gone.ĭryden wasn’t an animal rights activist. A South Texas Rancher named Edward Dryden heard about the plight of a troupe of Japanese Snow Monkeys, which had become a nuisance in a small Japanese town. The year is 1972, the Vietnam war is dragging on. It’s a story that goes back almost 50 years. But stories continue to circulate about Japanese Snow Monkeys being spotted in the wild. They’ve been housed in a sanctuary near Dilley for many years. It seems unlikely, but the harsh environment of South Texas plays host to a large population of Japanese Snow Monkeys. ![]()
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