We or rather my daughter has a cotton eared marmoset .  I don't believe in monkeys living with humans, thinking they are far better off with their own kind,.  However, in some instances it turns out that monkeys are not capable of living with their own

  Gizmo came to us by accident.  My youngest daughter has always been mad on monkeys and we saw a monkey advertised locally -  We went to look at it and that is all we were supposed to be doing.  However, when we saw it was kept in a small bird cage with no toys we knew we couldn't leave it there -  We have tried to get it back with its  own kind but we have been informed as it has known no other monkeys since a few weeks old they would turn on it  and it would not survive .

  We therefore do the best we can to make life interesting for him-  We hide his food so he has to forage for it as he would have to do in the wild and we regularly change his large cage with different toys and leaves and wooden perches and let him out from time to time.   We have also managed to source some marmoset food for him and we have a vet who has specialised in exotics -  He has been checked out by her and we have been told we are doing everything right for him.

  He has a special relationship with our dogs  which can be seen in the photos below.