CHIANG RAI: Having a monkey on one’s back may sound like the very definition of hardship, however for a dog in Mae Sai it is a labor of love. Guests on the Kung Pao 38 Restaurant in Mae Sai are greeted by a quite uncommon welcoming committee once they arrive: a four-year-old Labrador retriever and “Jockey”, an orphaned child monkey that clings continually to the dog’s again in the belief that she is its pure mother. The animals’ proprietor, 36-year-old restaurateur Anupas Patisaen, stated that the cross-species adoption came about quite naturally. The bitch, named Nasa, was retired about two years ago from her work as a drug sniffer with the Mae Sai Police Station. The dog’s former handler, Pol Sgt Maj Samphan Patisaen, requested K. Anupas if he wouldn’t mind caring for the animal. He accepted. Then, across the starting of September, the policeman turned up with one other animal that wanted a great home – an orphaned child monkey, species unknown and gender not reported. Maj Samphan said he thought the young monkey had by some means managed to escape the clutches of poachers who killed its parents, hoping to catch the child to promote in Bangkok’s black marketplace for unique pets. As luck would have it, not only did the child monkey escape, nevertheless it additionally arrived at Anupas’ restaurant at just the best time; Nasa had just had a litter of eleven puppies, solely one of which remained at the restaurant – the remaining being snatched up by pals and relations. Nasa, who had plenty of extra teats for the baby monkey to suckle from, accepted the monkey as her personal. Elementary gets alongside properly with the other pup, as but unnamed. At first, the baby primate tried to cling to the dog’s abdomen monkey-style, but soon found it a neater association to ride on the dog’s again, therefore the moniker “Jockey”. So close are “mother and child” that piercing screams will instantly ensue if the canine walks even a few toes away from the monkey. This seldom occurs, nonetheless, as Nasa is a very attentive mom. And even though monkeys are likely to shrink back from water, Jockey just maintaind