'I obviously assumed there was a baby inside of that stroller': Restaurant server discovers diner brought wild animal inside

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Mar 15, 2025 11:00 AM EDT

What in the world possessed a diner to do this? 

Service animals are very important, and their jobs should be respected. Some are guide dogs, some help veterans or those with disabilities, and other animals are just there for emotional support. Although these are all important duties, not all animals can be treated the same. This seems like a constant issue lately with people who are faking their service animal status. Instead of getting Fluffy the training and certification she needs to be an actual service dog, some people buy fake vests and just claim their dog is a working pup when they're just a house pet. This leads to dogs running rampant around restaurants, getting into squabbles with other dogs, or howling at top volume. A trained service animal would know better than to act out, but it doesn't stop the entitled people of the world from trying to get their precious pup into their favorite restaurant by any means necessary.

This person chose to fake their animal in a slightly different way! They just stuffed the little guy into a stroller… check it all out below! 

Up next, read about the 22-year-old employee who emailed their company's CEO each and every time their coworkers don't reply to emails, and when they asked the internet if it's a "big deal," commenters told them, "You [are] being high maintenance." 

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    y'all ever think your table has a baby but it turned out to be a monkey?
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    Title pretty much sums it up. For the first half hour I obviously assumed there was a baby inside of that stroller even though it was covered up. Because what the f else would it be. Around the half hour point I heard weird noises and after peaking inside more intently when I was close
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    enough, made eye contact with something that was definitely not a baby. After a few more minutes I couldn't take it anymore so I broke down and asked her to see it which is when I took the above photos.
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    There we have it: a real monkey, covered with a blanket, concealed in baby carriage

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    It's just bizarre! 

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    Ez13zie "Sir, is that a service monkey?"
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    B ☐ DolSeeYou Had someone ask to bring their "service monkey" into my place of work and we told them no, because monkeys aren't covered as service animals under the ADA, one of the reasons being the risk of
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    communicable diseases being so much greater because we are much closer genetically with monkeys than with dogs or miniature horses.
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    worldcaz That is f ed right the f up. GET the f OUT RIGHT NOW! Get your wild animal right the f out of the restaurant. Phew. Never seen that in my 30+ years in the industry. That would have been my reaction
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    Illustrious-Divid... And you asked them to leave, right? Right?
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    gavinkurt It's crazy people are bringing all types of wildlife into a restaurant. The restaurant causes great risk having a customer bringing their pet monkey into a restaurant because the health department does not permit this. There is no way they can say the monkey is a service animal.
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    Pretend_Ambas... It's so against health code but I can't deny that I would be so thrilled if I saw a monkey at a table I was serving
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    Misscharge Holy sh! This happened to me when I worked at ihop once. Lady came in with an odd looking stroller and I thought it was a baby at first til she started feeding it french fries lol Cute as h_l.
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    cervidal2 No joke, yes, I did have a guest come in with a monkey, at a well known chain restaurant at the Somerset Mall in Troy, MI. Never saw the guy again anywhere despite being so uniquely noteworthy, you figure he had to try that at other restaurants. If I didn't have staff there who also
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    saw it, I'd swear I had a fever dream. I was extremely grateful that he did not cause a fuss when we had to refuse service.
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