Shocking moment monkey kidnaps a DOG and leaps across rooftops with the terrified animal in its arms
- Footage from Parkota in India shows a small black and white dog being taken
- Monkey jumped from roof to balcony and then out of sight while holding dog
Heart-stopping footage has caught the moment a monkey kidnapped a dog.
The small dog with black and white fur was grabbed by a monkey twice its size in Parkota, in Jaipur, India on Saturday, March 18.
Video footage filmed by a bystander shows several people standing on the road watching the monkey crawling on the roof of a red house with the helpless dog in his arms.
The monkey was seen looking around, while the dog repeatedly slipped from his grip.
The dog was flapping its legs as the monkey set it down on the roof for a second, only to grab it again and take off with his four-legged prey in his arms.
Video footage filmed by a bystander shows people standing on the road watching the monkey crawling on the roof of a red house with the helpless dog in his arms. The thieving monkey jumped from the roof to an adjacent balcony and from there to another building as onlookers are laughing in the background. Once the monkey and the dog are out of sight, the footage cut out
The thieving monkey jumped from the roof to an adjacent balcony while holding the dog tightly to its chest.
From the balcony the monkey took off to another building as onlookers can be heard laughing in the background.
Once he landed on the building, which looked like it was under construction and had metal poles on the roof, the monkey turned around one last time to look at his spectators.
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As he took the dog out of sight, the footage cut out.
What happened to the kidnapped dog after is unclear.
The monkey kidnapper is just one of many ‘menaces’ plaguing the city, locals said.
It isn’t the only monkey who has caused chaos in India, as just a few weeks ago, a 70-year-old woman was killed after she was attacked by a pack of rampaging monkeys and slipped and hit her head on the floor as she was trying to escape them.
In 2021, the mother of eight-day-old twins claimed her babies had been snatched by ferocious monkeys, with one of the little girls killed and the other rescued.
In 2020, a mother and four of her children were crushed to death at their home in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh, after a wall was brought down by a troop of monkeys.
The five victims were killed by falling masonry after the wall was ‘violently shaken’ by monkeys while the family slept in the courtyard.
In 2019, a 50-year-old man died in Sambhal after falling from a terrace at his home when he was attacked by monkeys.
Reports at the time said it was the sixth monkey-related death in Sambhal during 2019 alone.
Just months earlier, a one-and-a-half-month-old infant was killed by a monkey which apparently jumped into her cot to steal her milk bottle.
Also in the same year a monkey killed a 60-year-old man and injured nine others after going on the rampage through a town in central India.
In 2018, a 58-year-old woman suffered severe injuries and died after she was attacked by a monkey outside her home in Agra, Uttar Pradesh.
The black and white dog taken in Parkota isn’t the first kidnapped by a monkey. In 2021, a two-week-old black and white puppy, now named Saru, was grabbed by the primate and taken to the top of an electricity post in Taman Lestari Putra, Malaysia on September 16.
The two-week-old black and white puppy, now named Saru, was grabbed by the primate and taken to the top of an electricity post in Taman Lestari Putra, Malaysia on September 16
Three residents then scramble towards the foliage. One of them manages to find the little puppy in the bushes and passes it back to the others
Video filmed by one of the rescuers shows concerned residents surveying the monkey clutching the puppy as it perched in a tree, and trying to work out how to save the tiny dog.
They try pelting it with small rocks and wood and finally decide to throw firecrackers on the ground in the hope that the loud noises will scare the monkey.
The plan works and the monkey drops the dog, its fall cushioned by the thick undergrowth. Three residents then scramble towards the foliage.
One of them manages to find the little puppy in the bushes and passes it back to the others.
Onlooker Cherry Lew Yee Lee said: ‘The puppy looked tired and weary but the monkey did not seem to hurt it. The monkey was just holding the puppy while it moved around.
‘It looked like it was treating the puppy as a friend or its baby, it was very strange. However, we still needed to save the poor dog because it appeared to have been starving.’
Cherry and her neighbours had gone to the area where the monkey was last spotted three times but they were always outrun by the animal, which fled along electricity lines and into the surrounding jungle.
Footage shows the residents throwing firecrackers on the ground to make a loud noise which would scare the monkey. The monkey is startled by the bang and drops the monkey into foliage below
One of the residents who rescued the puppy took it home to check for injuries before adopting it
Pictured: The proud locals hold the little puppy in a blanket after their successful rescue mission
Finally, the monkey had returned to find food while still clutching the small dog in its arms, and the rescuers were successful.
The dog was checked for injuries and adopted by a local, and is doing well.
Locals said the monkey kidnapper was part of a gang of animals already known to steal food from houses.
But this incident suggests they may be behind the disappearance of several pets.
Saru, however, is believed to have been snatched from a stray dog’s litter.
The Malaysian government receives an average of 3,800 complaints from the public about monkeys nationwide every year.
This has prompted the country’s wildlife department to instigate a mass culling program with up to 70,000 macaques killed annually between 2013 and 2016.
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