Target: Jimmy Dunn, District Attorney General for Sevierville, TN
Goal: Seek justice for monkeys allegedly left to die excruciating deaths in lethally hot car.
While news of animal-related heat deaths tragically come every summer, the reports typically involve dogs. This distressing narrative changed at Tennessee’s Soaky Mountain Water Park, however. While individuals and families cooled off with watery rides inside the park, two monkeys were apparently suffocating in the parking lot.
Employees found two young marmoset monkeys, both just weeks old, in a car on the premises. One of the monkeys had died, while the other was urgently taken for treatment for severe dehydration. The outside temperatures on this day alone were around 87 degrees. Since the heat inside closed vehicles can feel 100-plus degrees in just half an hour, these monkeys likely endured agony. The owners of the vehicle, Indiana couple Nova Brettell and David Paul, have been charged with animal cruelty.
Sign the petition below to ensure these suspects are held fully accountable for this tragedy if they are deemed responsible.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Mr. Dunn,
Water parks are supposed to be a source of care-free fun during hot summer days. The Soaky Mountain Water Park apparently became the scene of a horrible heat-related tragedy, however, when two young monkeys—one deceased—were discovered inside a blazing hot car. As these animals share such a close relationship with humans, imagine the torment and terror they must have experienced.
These living beings deserved better than to have their lives endangered or ended in such an excruciating and entirely preventable manner. When all current and potentially pending charges have been filed against the couple allegedly involved, please prosecute this egregious case to the fullest extent of the law.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
Photo Credit: Miriam Fischer
MAKE THIS ILLEGAL!!!
Seems being charged with animal cruelty isnt enough… our courts dont seem to realize just how serious this is becoming.. leaving animals to die in hot vehicles should be considered a more serious crime than just abuse they are suffering horrific torture and have no way to get out its like putting an animal in an oven and turning it on slow low temp to dehydrate them to death. Force courts to realize this is a very serious problem and not giving very serious sentences to those who have no conscious needs to be shocked into what they are doing… if they dont have commons sense then make them pay the price of the torture they force on these poor animals!
Are people just totally stupid, if it is hot to you it is definitely hot or even hotter for animals. Get a clue people!! Make people pay for their mistakes, jail and fines, whatever it takes to make them figure out what they have done!
My question is why did these 2 morons have two 2 week old monkeys anyways. We all know they were illegally taken from their mothers from some subhuman country that have way worse animal rights laws than we do! Our country needs to stop allowing these poor creatures in this country. Most morons have no idea how to properly raise a monkey, nor do they have the habitats that these little guys need to survive.
How are people this stupid? Let’s put them in a hot car and leave them and see how they like it. A world of morons!!! When common sense was being handed out, these 2 idiots were off at the snack cart. Jackholes!
Couldn’t have said it better myself!!
Nova Brettell and David Paul should be charged with illegally having 2 small monkeys in the first place, then felony for their deaths..
subhuman ignorance like Nova Brettell and Davis Paul should suffer the same fate..
too many abusers get off free
Absolutely agree with you. Shouldn’t have them in the first place.
Thank you for charging these two moron pieces of “human” excrement. Seek the max.
Hope these two have not started breeding yet. They will leave their brats (children) in a hot car while they go get drunk in some biker bar while trying to score some meth.
You are 100% correct! They are human scum!
Leave these 2 creeps in a hot car
Put this couple under the jail! They were probably in air conditioning!!
What were they doing with baby monkeys in the first place ?!?!?!
These 2 must be quite a pair; total hoosiers to begin with; ignorant and stupid to boot. Can you just mentally see these two skipping off to enjoy a water park while 2 small monkeys are kept in a hot scorching car? There’s something wrong with these two; psychiatric help is needed since you can’t fix just plain stupid.
Yes I do not understand why they had two baby marmosets is that legal it should not be
These 2 morons need jail time . This is unacceptable. These little monkeys suffered tremendously.
What fucking assholes!!! here is a prime example of the stupidity and sense of entitlement that plagues the majority of humans at a cost paid by other living beings. I bet the family felt they can do it all, have two monkeys as pets and have their cool rides and games while the animals were locked up in their car.
JAIL NOT BAIL!!!!
BAKE FOR THAT HUMAN TRASH IN A 350′ GENERAL ELECTRIC OVEN, PULL ‘EM OUT, THEN FROST ‘EM WITH PILLSBURY CHOCOLATE FUDGE ICING!!! 😈 RENEE CARIGLIA
No excuse. None. Should be locked in a hot car and left for dead.
Make these people pay for the expenses incurred for these poor monkeys, then lock them in a hot car and walk away. They need to experience what they did to these innocent animals
Just what kind of laws do you have in TN that owning two delicate baby monkeys is an OK thing. If this is not against the law then change the law and lock these morons up anyway.
HERE IS AN IDEA. MORON LIKE THIS SHOULD BE PUT IN A CAR UNTIL ONE OF THEM DIES. THEN ASK THE SURVIVOR HOW IT FEELS.
FIND THOSE MONSTERS WHO LET DIE MONKEY I A SUPERHOT CAR AND THE OTHER ALMOST DIED. DO THE SAME WITH THEM IN A HOT HOT CAR. NO MERCY. RITA FROM BELGIUM.