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Vets at Money World in Dorset inspect Milo the marmoset after it was recovered from a cruel keeper. See SWNS story SWMONKEY; A 32-year-old man could face prison after pleading guilty to two counts of causing unnecessary suffering to a MARMOSET – after he was caught taking it to a PUB. Richard Walton, from Basingstoke, Hamps, had already been banned from owning animals for two years after RSPCA inspectors found a severely neglected dog in his back garden, which had claws so overgrown it couldn’t walk and needed surgery. In their natural home in the Brazilian rainforest, marmosets are highly social creatures who mate for life and live in tight-knit family communities. But callous Walton kept three-year-old Milo in a faeces-covered birdcage, where he had no toys to play with.