Missouri Woman Fighting to Keep Emotional Support Monkeys

A Missouri woman is fighting to keep three monkeys she says help her cope with her PTSD. Her neighbors are complaining that the monkeys are dangerous.

"I could never give them up, they saved me," Texanne McBride-Teahan told InsideEdition.com of Kalie Anna, a bonnet macaque, Paula, a black-capped capuchin and Zoey, a patas monkey.

But one of her people living in her Creve Couer neighborhood said the animals belong in zoos or back in the wild.

A hearing is set for November.


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