AHC/WI : Pet Monkeys Much more common and or acceptable in The West nowadays

Dolan

Banned
Historically, ever since the ancient age, people used to keep monkeys as pets.

in the 17th century until the mid 20th century, Monkeys are commonly kept to be used as mascots and pets at various ships and army groups. They are also once rather a common sight accompanying street musicians (esp Organ Grinders) and performing alongside them. They are even being once common characters in Children's books, highlighting that they are back then was really being treated just like cats and dogs, being common pets.

Pet monkeys were pretty much easily domesticable (just as easy to toilet train as dogs, being as docile and friendly as dogs, and even pretty much trainable to obey commands that being more complex that dogs could do), and still being semi-common pets in many third world countries, and I do see no problem in keeping them (as long as they aren't being endangered species at the first place). Now, what needs to be done to keep Pet Monkeys being more or less acceptable as pets in most Western countries?

Of course, the likely POD must be something in late 20th century, as Pet Monkeys are practically still acceptable as pets as late as 1950's.
 
Cheating because this is pre-1900, but I have a perhaps strange idea:

So the Ancient Egyptians tamed imported baboons as guard animals. Baboons and similar primates (such as macaques) have a social structure which might make them compliant to domestication. Perhaps have either baboons be more widespread and live in Egypt itself instead of being Nubian imports and their taming takes off and develops into domestication, or this form of domestication extends to other similar primates (a good candidate might be the Rhesus macaque) early, thus making it more of a norm in modern society?
 

Dolan

Banned
Cheating because this is pre-1900, but I have a perhaps strange idea:

So the Ancient Egyptians tamed imported baboons as guard animals. Baboons and similar primates (such as macaques) have a social structure which might make them compliant to domestication. Perhaps have either baboons be more widespread and live in Egypt itself instead of being Nubian imports and their taming takes off and develops into domestication, or this form of domestication extends to other similar primates (a good candidate might be the Rhesus macaque) early, thus making it more of a norm in modern society?
That could be, but baboons are actually the least intelligent and the most aggressive monkey breed.

I was thinking about Macaques or Capuchin Monkeys, as they were the most widely used as performing and companion animals back then, and still being more or less semi-common pets in their native areas. (Brazil actually used to have them tolerated as common pets until Lula Da Silva ruined everything by ordering mass confiscation of Capuchin monkeys, that ironically cause thousands of dead monkeys as they end up neglected by government)
 

Dolan

Banned
So... Since Monkeys are as easily trained and docile compared to dogs, what is the effect on far more common monkey ownerships on both Pet legislations as well as being service animals?

Note that in Asia and parts of Africa, before Dogs being commonly trained as service animals, Blind and (or) Disabled Men often used monkeys to guide and help them doing their daily works. Monkeys also having extra advantage compared to dogs that they are not considered as unclean animals in some religion, and thus, theoretically, would be much more accessible.
 
In the TV show Friends, Ross had a pet monkey which appeared in a few episodes before it was written out. If they let it in the show longer (or make a spin-off series), this may make monkeys more popular.
 
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