Hello, hello, hello, dear Challenge!rs!! I don't need reminding that I'm still a bit behind in catching up to things in 'Catland; however, I received this Challenge! idea today from Amos, the right honorable (?) Bard of the Cookefam, and I couldn't resist (his begging and whinging) to use it for Challenge! No. 53 -- So, gird your loins, cover those naughty bits, and superglue your undies to yourselves . . . and GO FOR IT, CHALLENGE!RS!!!:

I Wanna Hold Your . . .

May 31 — A sex-crazed male monkey has caused an uproar in a central Sri Lankan town, stalking and attacking girls in public and flirting outrageously with cats and dogs, a newspaper said on Wednesday.

The monkey has roused the anger of residents of Kundasale by following young women around the town, jumping on them without warning and clinging tenaciously until it was chased away with sticks and stones, the Daily News reported.

Apparently having little success with human females, the primate also makes advances on other animals to which it has "a very strong affinity (particularly) cats and dogs of the opposite sex," the newspaper said, adding the creature fed its libido by stealing chocolates from local shops.

The monkey business has outraged the town in Sri Lanka's conservative rural heartland where public displays of affection are frowned upon even between humans of the opposite sex.