Family Matters

For those of you who don't know my mother's name is LaDonna Davis, and my name is of course Joe. It was very surprising to hear about the tragic Chimp attack the other day in California involving our sound-a-likes.
Here is the first paragraph of the story as published in the Seattle Times. The parts that are alarmingly true to my real life are in bold.

HAVILAH, Calif. St. James and LaDonna Davis raised Moe the chimp as their son. That was the word they used to describe him, and that was how they treated him like a hairy, rambunctious child who was a pampered member of the family.
They taught him to wear clothes, to take showers, to use the toilet and to watch TV in their West Covina home.
On Thursday, the day they marked as Moe's 39th birthday, their love for the chimp nearly cost them their lives.
The Davises were visiting Moe at an animal sanctuary in eastern Kern County where he had been banished in 1999 after biting a woman when they were attacked by two other chimps and brutally mauled. the rest of the story

Please stand by my family during this difficult time.