Building George his own house.

Today the local village guys turned up to start on George's outside cage. I have searched a lot online, but never really found much help on building a cage for a monkey, so I designed one based on what I think will work for both George, me and my staff.

These pictures are of the slab being carefull laid with wire reinforcement, with slope for drainage, drainage hole and the 44gallon drums will leave holes behind that I cant plant real trees into once the concrete dries a bit and I remove them.

It will end up being about 5m(15feet) x 3m(9feet) and 2.5m high. It will be mostly open space with natural trees planted inside the cage and about one quarter covered for when it rains and to house his sleeping box - which will also be able to be accessed and cleaned without entering his main cage.

It will have double door entry so I have to go inside a smaller cage and close the door before I go into the larger cage, just be on the safe side.

Small food hatches will make it easy for my staff to give him food, and a sloped concrete floor will make it easy to keep clean from the outside with a hose.

I am hoping that I will still have his respect as the Leader and be able to enter his cage as he gets older to play with him and clean him, but only time will tell.

He should feel pretty happy about his new cage. It will be under a lovely big fruit tree with fantastic views and some afternoon sun - as monkeys need sunlight every day to stay healthy. It's also close enough to the main house so that he will hear and see people and not feel too alone.

To think this little guy was almost Green Monkey Curry.